Events
Regular Events
| Smart Government DACHLi (German)
| Open Government Data DACHLi (German)
| Citizens design Smart Cities (German)
Find more information on all events of The Open Government Institute on our German website
Future events
Information about all upcoming events where TOGI employees will be speaking can always be found in the latest TOGI newsletter in the section "Ausblick, Aktivitäten und Termine"
Follow-up reports
23. und 24.06.2021 | TOGI Symposium
The TOGI Symposium took place on June 23 and 24, 2021 in a virtual congress world due to the coronavirus pandemic. The digitalization of the state, cities and administration had gained visibility and relevance due to the pandemic and the elections at state and federal level. A symposium on the current state of e-government, open government, smart government, artificial intelligence in the public sector and the eGov Campus with academic contributions, practitioner contributions and keynote speeches was the perfect way to do this. The TOGI symposium also opened up the space for an exchange of ideas, suggestions and discussions.
Further information on the TOGI Symposium 2021 can be found in the TOGI Newsletter Summer 2021. All slide sets are available here. Volume 23 of the TOGI publication series contains 12 selected contributions from the TOGI Symposium. The volume is also available in bookstores.
Information visit by the Thuringian Minister of the Interior Georg Maier
October 19, 2018, Friedrichshafen
Georg Maier (SPD), Minister of the Interior and Municipal Affairs of the Free State of Thuringia, paid a fact-finding visit to Zeppelin University (ZU). He paid particular attention to The Open Government Institute (TOGI) at ZU, which focuses primarily on issues of open government and administrative action, innovative approaches to transparency and citizen participation in digital democracy.
Maier was accompanied by high-ranking representatives of his ministry, including the State Secretary for a "Modern Thuringia" in the Ministry of the Interior, Uwe Höhn (SPD). The discussion with Professor Dr. Jörn von Lucke, Director of TOGI and holder of the Chair of Administrative and Business Informatics at ZU, focused primarily on the work of the institute and new approaches to administrative digitalization. Based on the goal of the digital transformation of the state and administration, Prof. von Lucke showed a possible development of analog administration via e-government and open government to smart government in real time, i.e. the handling of business processes of government and administration with the help of intelligently networked information and communication technologies and 5G networks. Practical examples from Asia and Australia, such as automated facial recognition and traffic control based on artificial intelligence, illustrated the need for Germany to catch up. At the same time, however, he also pointed out the danger of a highly technologized surveillance state.
The visit to ZU took place as part of a four-day fact-finding trip by the minister against the backdrop of Thuringia's efforts to use so-called e-government to make the administration in the state more modern, citizen- and business-friendly. The destinations of the trip were primarily in Switzerland, including authorities, offices and initiatives in Bern, Zurich and St. Gallen that deal with the topic of digitalization.
Symposium Smart Government
Closing event: Open social innovation
November 26-27, 2014, Vaduz
- Can open innovation help solve social challenges?
- What are the opportunities and risks of open social innovation?
- What methods and tools are available?
The event was part of the final conference of the IBH-funded research project eSociety Bodensee 2020 - Open social innovation in the Lake Constance region. In lectures and discussions, solution approaches from theory and practice were presented by representatives from politics, administration and science.
A detailed report can be found on the project website.
Fachtagung Verwaltungsinformatik (FTVI 2012) und Fachtagung Rechtsinformatik (FTRI 2012)
The opening of government and administration is taking shape
"Government and administration on the way to an open, smart and networked administrative culture": This was the topic of the "FTVI & FTRI 2012 Conference on Administrative and Legal Informatics", which took place on March 15 and 16, 2012 at Zeppelin University (ZU). It was organized by the Deutsche Telekom Institute for Connected Cities (TICC). From a technical, legal, economic, administrative and political perspective, the event focused on three topics: Opening up the state and administration (open government and good governance), open, smart and networked administration and political and legal requirements for the state and administration.
The discussions among the renowned experts focused on the new challenges posed by social media, Web 2.0 technologies and cloud computing. Topics such as transparency and citizen participation were just as important to the participants from Berlin, Hamburg and Stuttgart as they were in the Lake Constance district and Friedrichshafen. Opening up government databases can lead to further innovations in federal, state and local government.
The opening up of government and administration, known as "open government", is taking on ever more concrete forms. After the state government of Baden-Württemberg presented its first prototype for a joint Open Data Portal Baden-Württemberg (http://opendata.service-bw.de) last week, Ministerial Director Zinell, Head of Office at the Ministry of the Interior and CIO of the state government of Baden-Württemberg, presented the ideas and strategies for open government to a broad public at the specialist conference on Thursday. The Administrative Informatics Conference (FTVI) and the Legal Informatics Conference (FTRI) promote a trend-setting dialog between science and administrative practitioners, legal practitioners and consultants.