Dr. Olivier Blanchard is a management consultant and founder and CEO of several companies. He is one of the first signatories of the #FreeWebSearch charter and explains why.
Maximilian Kroker, Solicitor and representative of the Common Grounds Forum on why a free and democratic web search is essential for the young generation.
Danica Bensmail is the federal managing director of the dju, the German Union of Journalists. Here she explains why transparent, independent, and manipulation-free web searches are so important for media professionals.
Henner Gädtke represents the Federation of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ) as its federal chairman. The BDKJ stands for self-organised youth association work in the Catholic Church and is the umbrella organisation for 17 Catholic youth associations, in which around 660,000 children and young people are organised. Why is free access to information so important for children and young people?
Tong-Jin Smith, a professor of journalism at the Media University of Applied Sciences in Berlin is one of the first signatories of the #FreeWebSearch charter.
Carmen Wegge has been representing the districts of Starnberg, Landsberg am Lech, and the city of Germering in the German Bundestag as an SPD member of parliament since 2021 and is the spokesperson for legal affairs and consumer protection for the SPD parliamentary group. What is she advocating for with her initial signing of the #FreeWebSearch charter?
Colin Hayhurst, CEO of the british search engine Mojeek, explains why web search needs more competition, innovation and alternative market players.
Lawyer, Google expert, and author (including “Digital Advertising and the Google Ecosystem” and “Self-Preferencing in Online Search”) Prof. Dr. Thomas Höppner is the first signatory of the #FreeWebSearch charter. For many years, he has been conducting interdisciplinary research and consulting on economics, technology, and law in the digital economy, particularly online advertising markets. Why is he calling for web search to serve society?
Renowned digital expert, journalist, and former member of the German Bundestag Anke Domscheit-Berg, who grew up in the GDR, is one of the first signatories to support the #FreeWebSearch charter. Here she explains why the issue of public-interest web search is so important to her.
