IntechOpen's CEO Anke Beck has been appointed to the German Council for Information Infrastructure (RFii) as a new Council member. By order of the Council of Science and Humanities (Gemeinsamer Wissenschaftsrats) the group of experts is tasked to advise Politics and Academia how to establish and develop the information infrastructures for academia and to formulate German positions in this area.
The Council for Information Infrastructure has operated since 2014 and is now in its second phase.
The Council aims to improve the information infrastructures and to support the development and communication of German positions in European and international debates in the next four years.
Beck has strong experience in academic publishing and is newly CEO of IntechOpen, a digital open access publisher. Beck attends the meeting as one of 24 members who were appointed by the Joint Science Conference of the Federal States for a term of four years. They constitute a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines, roles and institutions.
The meeting addresses the topics quality of data in academic research; digital competence, new fields of employment and the recent announcement of the German government to establish a national research data infrastructure in Germany (NFDI). The immediate achievement of the first phase of the council’s work is an allocation of up to €90 Mio annually for this purpose. The council will further explore shared strategies on the international level.
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