We are missing huge opportunities here. Instead of remaining inside the ivory tower, universities are supposed to be an important part of urban development and social change. The tools are all out there, and this is the very moment digital can become a new infrastructure: an operating system for academic citizenship.

(Btw: The „Drittmittelförderung“ (third party funding at universities) has had an enormous impact on what universities were acting upon – not at all in a good way.)