At this year’s EGOV 2025 (IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2025) in Krems, Austria, researchers and students from the Department of Information Systems presented current work on key topics in digital government. The scientific conference focuses on the broader areas of e-Government and e-Democracy, including facets like Digital Government, e-Participation, Open Government, Smart Government, AI Government, GovTech, Algorithmic Governance, and related topics to digitalization and government. 

Michael Koddebusch, together with Gabriela Viale Pereira (University for Continuing Education Krems), Lieselot Danneels (University of Ghent), and Ramon Gil-Garcia (University at Albany), organized the PhD colloquium and, together with Vera Spitzer, Maria Wimmer (both University of Koblenz), and Ulrik BU Røhl (Copenhagen Business School), initiated the conference track “Managing eGovernment Projects.” 

Patrick Nguyen presented his research (co-authors Mathias Rusche and Hendrik Scholta) under the title “Unique Uniform: A Taxonomy for Locally Contextualized Public Service Models.” 

In addition, the Master’s students Niklas Kloth, Hans Näscher, Tharuni Delpechithrage, Jonas von Werne, and Moritz Mersmann (each with co-authors) from the Information Systems program developed their seminar papers into conference contributions and successfully presented their results. This once again demonstrated the high scientific quality and practice-oriented research of the program. 

The presented research covered a wide range of topics – from municipal digital strategies and AI-supported systems to the impact of the EU AI Act on public institutions. The contributions highlight both the diversity and practical relevance of the research conducted at the Institute of Information Systems in the field of Digital Government.