outreach

In July 2018, I was invited to talk about issues of Artificial Intelligence in public administration at the 10th Bayrisches Anwenderforum in Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich. The congress convenes mostly civil servants from the state of Bavaria who are interested in matters of digitalisation. My panel dealt with questions of Artificial Intelligence and included a …    read more »

To celebrate the publication of our edited volume “(Un)berechenbar? Algorithmen und Automatisierung in Staat und Gesellschaft” on algorithms and automatisation in government and society, the the Competence Center Public IT (ÖFIT) held a panel discussion on 11 June 2018 at Fraunhofer Forum in Berlin. The panel included digital activist Katharina Nocun, Fraunhofer FOKUS director Ina Schieferdecker, …    read more »

On 1 June 2018, I facilitated a half-day barcamp on the future of government together with two design thinking experts from Luftmenschen. About one hundred young people under (or around) 30 years from academia, public sector, consultancies, trade unions, and startups with an interest in public administration participated in the event, following an invitation from …    read more »

On 23 November 2017, I hosted a discussion round about algorithms and automatisation in government at the annual conference of the Kompetenzzentrum Öffentliche IT (ÖFIT). ÖFIT is a project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems that acts as a think tank on the uses of information technology in government and society, financed by the …    read more »

In November 2016, me and my Potsdam colleague Christian Schwab presented the preliminary results of an exploratory study on the challenges of e-government integration in the multi-level government of Berlin. Based on interviews with government officers and official evaluations, we concluded that the digital integration of governmental business processes is nowadays not a technical challenge, …    read more »

I won a Best Talk Award at the Potsdam PhDay 2016 for my presentation on Big Data as a rational myth, attracting the largest share of the audience vote among three other contestants from the University of Potsdam’s Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences. The prize were 100 € and a light bulb filled with candy. The PhDay …    read more »