On Friday 26 Jan the Network Institute received a visit from a high ranking delegation of the Ministry of the Interior (“Binnenlandse Zaken”), headed by Mevr. Simone Roos, one of the highest ranking civil servants in The Hague. Mrs. Roos was accompanied by a number of her colleagues from The Hague, and by Mrs. Marjolein Janssen, member of the Board of the University. The delegation had an inspiring session with researchers from the Network Institute consisting of Academy Assistants, PhD students and senior academic staff. Topics of discussion were the social effects of the increasing digitisation of society, and the roles and responsibilities of citizens and government in this process. They were impressed with how successful the Network Institute is in bridging the gap between different academic disciplines, and how it uses this interdisciplinary setting to study questions with a high social relevance.