Andy Müller-Maguhn 

Andy Müller-Maguhn (*1973) has been member of the Chaos Computer Club since 1986, lives in Berlin and is engaged in various technical and social aspects of information and communication technology, especially the effects of network architecture parameters and the resulting cultural forms.

During his studies of telecommunications engineering and information science, he worked as a journalist, consultant and expert in the field of electronic networks. Through his voluntary work in the Chaos Computer Club as member of the executive committee and spokesman, he supervises projects that adopt a constructively critical approach to technology and its effects on the conception of viable structures for the future. The primary consideration here is on the principle of the transparency of technology and the experiences gathered in dealing with this technology as a working basis of the Chaos Computer Club.

Elected as Honorary Director of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) by other net users, he was responsible, along with 18 other Directors, for the worldwide development of guidelines and decisions relating to issues of worldwide internet structure from the end of 2000 over a period of 2 years.

Since June 2002, he has been acting as honorary member of the executive committee of European Digital Rights (EDRI), which as umbrella organization of European NGOs is engaged in the promotion of human rights also in the digital age. Under the name Datenreisebüro (Data Travel Bureau) he has been running an office in Berlin since mid-2002 which accommodates not only the Chaos Computer Club but also workshop and archive rooms, and he is currently attempting with the conception of training courses and workshops to make use of a wide range of different experiences, especially in the field of data protection and data security, for the design of policies and structures.