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12/05/2019

Successful transfer conference of the Civitas Digitalis project

@Information Systems

As part of the "Civitas Digitalis" project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research(BMBF) and supervised by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe(PTKA), the transfer conference "Civitas Digitalis - Digital and crowd-based service systems for the creation of sustainable and liveable living spaces 2020" took place in Hamburg on November 21, 2019. The Department of Information Systems(Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister) at the University of Kassel was represented by Matthias Billert (research associate in the Civitas Digitalis project) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Peters (research group leader at the University of Kassel and assistant professor at the University of St. Gallen).
With a focus on digital co-creation and artificial intelligence in citizen participation, the conference was aimed at stakeholders in municipal administration, service providers, IT companies and academics who are active in the areas of participation/citizen involvement and also address digitalization issues in this context. Over 60 participants took up the offer and, together with the other project partners University of Hamburg, City of Hamburg, fortiss GmbH and the City of Kassel, engaged in a comprehensive exchange of knowledge.

After a welcome from the hosts by Susanne Metz (Office for Regional Planning and Urban Development Hamburg), a welcome address was given by Dr.-Ing. Michael Große (Project Management Agency Karlsruhe PTKA) and Prof. Dr. Eva Bittner (University of Hamburg/Coordinator of the joint project). This was followed by two keynotes on the topic of "Trends in citizen participation" by Mr. Jörg Sommer (Berlin Institute for Participation) and Mr. Rolf Lührs (DEMOS E-Partizipation GmbH), which provided exciting impulses.

The three-year Civitas Digitalis project insights were then presented in three short talks. Peggy Niering (City of Kassel) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Peters kicked things off with "Awaken the Hercules in you"(https://weckdenherkulesindir.de). This was followed by a presentation by Daniel Kulus(Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg) and Prof. Dr. Eva Bittner (University of Hamburg/project management) on the topic of innovation building blocks. Peter Kuhn (fortiss GmbH, affiliated institute TU Munich) concluded with a presentation on the technical implementation of the Civitas Digitalis platform.

The workshop - Digital Participation with Christina Hartmann (City of Kassel) and Matthias Billert (University of Kassel) provided an exciting exchange and, in particular, cross-project insights by developing solutions for overcoming existing challenges of digital forms of participation in the public sector.

A final discussion of the results took place in an intensive panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Eva Bittner (University of Hamburg), Jörg Sommer (Berlin Institute for Participation), Rolf Lührs (DEMOS E-Partizipation GmbH) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Peters under the moderation of Mr. Claudius Lieven (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg).

The documentation including videos of the panel discussion will be made available on the project website civitas-digitalis.de!