Public Administration Research with a digital twist
In February 2020, I participated in a panel discussion on innovation in public procurement at the German “Day of the public contracting authority” at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. I was invited based on the whitepaper on strategic IT procurement I had written in 2019 and argued specifically for the introduction of … read more »
In February 2020, the article on data-driven government for a handbook on “digitalisation in government and public administration” that I had been working on since 2018 was finally published. Unfortunately, Open Access was not an option, so you can read it here behind a Springer paywall (in German): (You can also contact me for the … read more »
In November 2019, ÖFIT published a whitepaper on Open Government Data in London, Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna I had co-authored with Lisa Bieker, Lina Bruns and Christian Welzel. The paper examines the different promises of Open Data – economic growth, political participation, and social innovation – and contrasts this with sobering statistics on the use … read more »
In October 2019, I participated in the NEGZ Slam on “digital souvereignty” at the Smart Country Convention in Berlin. The Smart Country Convention is among the leading congresses on digital government in Germany. I dedicated my few minutes pushing the advantages of Free Software for the public sector: Digital souverän ist der Staat, wenn er … read more »
In September 2019, we published a guide for user-friendly digital public services. The guide provides short and practice-oriented introductions to topics such as user-centric design, simple language, accessibility and technical aspects of mobile-readiness. For each topic, we lay out why government should bother, the core concepts of how to do it and the most important … read more »
In September 2019, ÖFIT published an impulse paper by my colleagues Resa Mohabbat Kar, Simon Sebastian Hunt, Peter Parycek and me. The paper argues for the implementation of legal informatics with a focus on laws as machine-executable rules, digital data sources and a more interdisciplinary legislation process. Rather than going for a tempting lenghty theoretical … read more »