About the Center

FBU Cyber Lab is an interdisciplinary research center based at Fenerbahce University, focusing on research at the intersection of digital media, global security, and human rights. We strive to engage in collaborative and interdisciplinary research to the most relevant issues in digitalization and cybersecurity governance, including normative and strategic dimensions of sectoral, national, and international cybersecurity practices, norms, regulations and policies. Our mission is to contribute to the efforts to secure cyberspace as an open, public commons of global information and communication in collaboration with the like-minded stakeholders in industry, civil society, and academia.

 

Director’s Message

The digital information age we live in constitutes the fourth pillar of the industrial revolution that transformed the agricultural society into a post-industrial society. The First Industrial Revolution in 18th century mechanized production thanks to the advent of steam power, the Second Industrial Revolution in the early 20th century enabled mass-production using electric power, and the Third Industrial Revolution in the second part of 20th century automated production thanks to the advancement of digital technology. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, refers to the advance of cyber-physical systems in the 21st century enabling full automation including digitally connected products and services, self-driving cars, smart cities, and factories as well as the rise of new technologies such as networking, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, blockchain and 5G.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution enabled by extraordinary technology advancements equal to those of the first, second and third industrial revolutions represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work, and relate to one another and offers both huge prospects and potential risks. We invite researchers, practitioners, and students to analyze this multidimensional transformation in human development and to reconsider together how countries develop, how organizations prosper, how people communicate, and even what it means to be human.

 

Dr. Tuba Eldem