Last week, the seventh Legal and Administrative Informatics Conference (RVI 2024), the INFORMATIK Festival and the eGov-Campus Workshop took place in Wiesbaden and Speyer.

The aim of the joint conference on legal and administrative informatics of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. is to promote the dialogue between research and practice and to substantially advance the digital transformation of the government and administration through scientifically grounded insights. The INFORMATIK Festival, titled ‘Lock-in or log out? Wie digitale Souveränität gelingt’, focused on digital sovereignty and explored what role informatics can play in strengthening it.

Three members of the department attended the events and partially presented their papers:

Michael Koddebusch presented a paper at the workshop ‘IT-Kompetenzen für die digitale Verwaltung der Zukunft“, which took place as part of the INFORMATIK Festival: Michael Koddebusch, Paul Brützke, Jörg Becker: „GovLearn: A Digital Tool to Empower Public Servants in their Search for Digital Government Competence Education“.

David Nowak presented a paper at the RVI24, which took place as a co-located conference alongside INFORMATIK: David Nowak: „Capturing trust in public service encounters“.

Dr. Michael Räckers was active in the organizing committees of both the IT Competencies Workshop and the RVI, and was primarily responsible for organizing RVI 2024.

The conference was followed by an excursion to DUV Speyer on Friday, where the participants discussed the eGov campus and its current and future direction.