Digital politics is no longer a niche area. It is now gaining widespread interest among political institutions and the media and extends into many different traditional areas of politics, such as economic, social and foreign policy. At the international digital conference DLD (22 - 24 January) in Munich, politicians, regulators and political opinion formers will be stating their positions and discussing their views with the DLD community.

At the start of the DLD Conference, Vice President of the European Commission Viviane Reding will present a keynote speech on 22 January on the future of Internet regulation, introducing the topic of “Online Identity/Privacy”. She will also discuss her plans for data protection in the digital age. Nicolas Princen, Alec Ross and Rohan Silva, digital advisors to Nicolas Sarkozy, Hillary Clinton and David Cameron, will also be at DLD to talk about “Digital Diplomacy”, foreign and regional politics in the digital age and future markets. The impact of Internet infrastructure and its regulation on innovation and how close the link is between Internet policy and economic policy will be explained exclusively at DLD by Julius Genachowski, former advisor to Obama and current Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission. The Chairman of Germany’s Pirate Party, Sebastian Nerz, will also be there to offer a new political perspective.

Other guests will include numerous representatives of governments, parliaments, parties and political organisations, including Martin Zeil (FDP), Christian Ude (SPD), Philipp Missfelder (CDU), Dorothee Bär (CSU), Joachim Pfeiffer (CDU), Jimmy Schulz (FDP), Silvana Koch-Mehrin (FDP), Nadja Hirsch (FDP), Malte Spitz (Alliance 90/The Greens) and Egemen Bagis (Turkey’s EU Minister). Along with representatives of the digital economy and the Internet community, they will form the sounding board for the political debates at DLD.

Further information is available at: http://www.dld-conference.com