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Expert quotes on the return to Free and Open Source Software in Munich’s city government

14 May 2020

In May 2020, I provided a few quotes to a ZDNet story on Munich city government’s return to an open- source-software-first strategy. As we had written a blog post on debates and practices of Free and Open Source Software in German government a few weeks ago, I was able to give some insights. I am … read more »

Interview on AI in government in ÖFIT podcast

24 May 202014 May 2020

In April 2020, the first episodes of the ÖFIT podcast, the government think tank I work at, were published. These included an episode where I talked about Artificial Intelligence in government in general and our scenario study “Exekutive KI 2030” in particular. You can listen to the episode (in German) here: In the first episode, … read more »

Video panel on Big Data and Artifical Intelligence in times of Corona

27 May 202013 May 2020

In May 2020, I participated in a online discussion hosted by the Austrian liberal think tank NEOS Lab with Dieter Feierabend and Julia Puaschunder on the opportunities of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in the fight against Corona. My participation was based on the study on data-driven government I had written for NEOS Lab in … read more »

Blog post on debates and practices of Free and Open Source Software in German government published

13 May 202029 April 2020

In April 2020, I co-wrote a blog post with my colleague Hüseyin Sagkal retracing some of the debates and practices of Free and Open Source software in German public administrations. The aim was to provide a cursory overview and a link collection with no claim of comprehensiveness, as an additional resource to the Public Money … read more »

Blog post on evidence-based public management published

13 May 202028 April 2020

In April 2020, I wrote a blog post with my colleague Hüseyin Sagkal summarising a white paper on the use of data for public management, especially enhanced control for the political leadership, . The original whitepaper was written by Juliane Schmeling, Anja Marx und Holger Kurrek. Here’s the blog post at Verwaltung-der-Zukunft.org (in German):

Study on digital solutions for rural areas published

13 May 202031 March 2020

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 »