Exchange with Japanese scientific delegation on crowdsourcing topics

On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, an exchange between the Department of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister) and a delegation of Japanese scientists from variousuniversities in Tokyo took place in Frankfurt am Main. Dr. Christoph Peters, research group and project leader, and Volkmar Mrass, research assistant at Professor Leimeister's department, presented excerpts from their research in the field of crowdsourcing to the Japanese delegation participants and then answered their questions.

Takashi FUJIKI (Assistant Professor at TEIKYO University in Tokyo), Kiwamu GOTO (Doctoral candidate at CHUO University in Tokyo), Shiro IKAWA (Associate Professor at YAMAGUCHI University), Katsutoshi KEZUKA (former professor at CHUO University in Tokyo), Masayuki NUMATA (Professor at HOSEI University in Tokyo) and Takashi YONEZU (Professor at CHUO University in Tokyo) are conducting research on crowdsourcing in Japan. Japan. During the exchange with Dr Christoph Peters and Volkmar Mrass, they were particularly interested in the crowdworking platform landscape in Germany, the special features of this new form of work organization, the political and legal situation in this regard in Europe's largest economy and forms of interlinking external and internal crowds, on which the Department of Information Systems is currently conducting intensive research.

The interesting and lively exchange was followed by a joint lunch, during which the topics were discussed in greater depth and potential collaborations were discussed. During their visit to Germany, the high-ranking Japanese scientific delegation will hold further talks with numerous target groups from society and business.