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GESIS joined the 10th Expert Conference for methods and tools for updating the public authorities

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Created on Tuesday, 08 September 2015 15:27

The 10th Expert Conference for methods and tools for updating the public authorities (http://www.memo-tagung.de/ ) took place in Münster Germany from 8th to 9th of June and was attended by GESIS. Local authorities, companies and scientists from all over Germany had the chance to exchange knowledge on current practices where new methods were applied. A mover for digital change is the E-Government law, which strongly addresses the need for more effective workflows in e-government. This is beneficial for public authorities themselves and finally for the citizens. Another issue is the strategy for Open Data. If local authorities publish their data, it can be used by many other actors for many purposes, but including the decision-making process. This is one of the SENSE4US project’s targets, to support decision-makers during their work of identifying significant data for their policies. Hence the conference was beneficial to get insights in local policy-making. Some of the participants were invited to engage themselves to the upcoming pilots at local level.