In order to develop solutions for societal issues, public administration increasingly cooperates with diverse stakeholders such as citizens, NGOs and companies. To do this, it is necessary to publicly present approaches to overcoming administrative burdens and successes, and to learn from each other. We explore how this new form of open collaboration can succeed beyond organizational boundaries.
2021
2020
2018
OPAS
On the OPAS platform of the chair, summaries of scientific as well as student work are published in order to make the results of this work available to an interested, fack-knowledgeable public.
Barriers to Digital Co-Creation in Estonia and how they could be Overcome
Added value by Digital Volunteers using the case study of the "Verschwörhaus Ulm"
Nathalie Haug
PhD Student
from 01.04.2020
Since April 2020, Nathalie Haug has been a doctoral student at the Chair of Public Administration - Digital Governance, where she already worked as a student assistant during her master's studies. In her master thesis, she investigated how collaboration in cross-functional teams works and how a local government should be designed to provide the right environment for cross-functional teams.
Professor. Dr. Ines Mergel
Professor Dr. Ines Mergel is full Professor of Public Administration - Digital Governance at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz and Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (Class of 2018).
After working at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Doctoral Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2008), Professor Mergel worked at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Syracuse University, NY) first as an Assistant Professor (2008-2014) and then as an Associate Professor with tenure (2014-2016).
Professor Mergel is a member of the editorial boards of Government Information Quarterly, Public Management Review, Information Polity, Australian Journal of Public Administration, and Digital Government: Research and Practice.
Professor Mergel is a founding member of the international initiative "Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age", which aims to integrate digital literacy into the teaching and training of administrative staff.