Areas of competence
- Information security awareness
- (Mobile) business applications and multimedia
- Holistical project and process management, IT projects, education projects
- E-government / smart governance and modernisation, public sector, information security and awareness
- IT and didactics, digital media in education, individual and organisational learning, lifelong learning
- Learning technologies, forms of learning, e-learning, blended learning, problem-based learning
- Continuing education and specialised traning for SMEs and administrative bodies
- Certified training course in coordination with the BAköV covering the BSI standards, exam and 5-year certificate: "IT Security Officer in public administration"
- ECDL-exams and trainings
Laboratories
- Laboratory of media and management science
- Training Center Information Security / Security Arena
- Examination Centre of ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence)
Equipment
- PC lab with 18 user clients and 1 lecturer client
- 19 tablet computers
- Mobile IT lab with 18 laptops and 2 servers (seperated from the network for special information security exercises)
- Information Security Arena
Software licences
- Office Professional Business Suite
- Open Office
- Project Libre
- Mindmanager
- XMind
- Adobe Photoshop CS
- Adobe Acrobat
- Camtasia
- PICTURE process modelling
- ARIS process modelling
- EL.DOK Land Bbg (DMS / eAkte)
- SAP Business Suite
- GS-Tool (IT Grundschutz)
- GFI LAN Guard (Netzwerkscans / Sicherheit)
- Steganos Privacy Suite 15
- ElcomSoft System Recovery
- Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery
Membership in networks
- Temporary: Programming Committee of the European Conference International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) EGOV
- Permanent: IFIP Working Group 8.5
- Permanent: National E-Government Competence Center NEGZ
- Temporary until the end of 2017: ddn - Das Demographie Netzwerk e. V.
- Co-Chair Minitrack "Social Media, Citizen Participation and Government", E-Government Track, HICSS
- Chair, IJEPR (International Journal of E-Planning Research) Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
- Reviewer, ICSIT (International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, USA)
- Reviewer, IJIIE (International Journal of Innovation in Education, Germany / EU)
- Reviewer, EJEG (Electronic Journal of e-Government)
- Reviewer, HICSS (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, USA)
- Reviewer, FVTI & FVRI, Germany
Cooperation
- Federal Academy of Public Administration (BAköV), Brühl
- Central IT Service, Brandenburg Public Administration
- known_sense, Cologne
- Service company for computer science, DLGI
- Sudile GbR, Potsdam
- iSchool of University of Washington in Seattle, USA (individual cooperation)
- Center for Technology in Government (CTG), University at Albany, USA (general cooperation at university level)
- Smart City Research Collaboration at CTG, Albany (cooperation at University level)
- DePaul University, Chicago IL, USA
Further information
Advanced vocational training opportunities
- Certified training course in coordination with the BAköV covering the BSI standards 100-1 to 100-3, exam and 5-year certificate: "IT Security Officer in public administration" (15 days)
- Customised software training for business and administrations with individual matching
- ECDL exams (all modules)
- 1-day trainings ECDL (all contents)
- 2 x 3-day workshop on "methods of organisation and IT project management"
- 3-day seminar "E-Government"
- 5-day workshop "Holistic IT Project Management"
- 1-day seminars on specific aspects of IT project management and quality management
- 1-day seminars on specific aspects of learning and "blended learning"
- 1-day seminars for the development of relational databases
- Customised software training for business and administrations with individual matching