publication

In March 2020, ÖFIT published a study on digital solutions for rural areas I co-authored with my colleagues Nicole Opiela and Michel Stephan Rothe. The study points out the typical challenges of rural areas and then goes on to categorise digital solutions to those based on actual projects in Germany. Further, we surveyed a few …    read more »

In March 2020, the German translation of the Public Money Public Code brochure by the Free Software Foundation Europe was published. The publication explores the potential of Free Software for the public sector, taking on misconceptions. In 2019, I had contributed a short article to the English original and later on presented the brochure at …    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 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 »