🔴In blockchain, we still face ‘garbage in – garbage out’ problem. If the quality of data in a blockchain is poor, blockchain’s properties won’t make it better. What you’ll get is transparent, distributed, and immutable… garbage. 🚀A few years after the original submission, Florian Spychiger, Claudio J. Tessone, Gerhard Schwabe and I could publish the…

It was fun (like always, Gianluca Miscione!) talking to you and your students in your course on Global IS last week at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. We discussed blockchain and crypto, career paths between academia and IT, success of digital (and physical) ecosystems, and many more! (This small red dot 🔴 on…

Now it is official and I can share something very special: our project “Government as/is a platform: Orchestrating those involved in the refugee crisis through digital platforms in the Canton of Zurich” together with Gerhard Schwabe got funded under the DIZH Rapid Action Call as a response to the crisis situation, caused by the war…

❓This is something you can learn from our new paper, recently published at the DESRIST2022. 🚀 Thanks to the paper team to make this work happen, Sven Eckhardt, Kilian Sprenkamp, Ingrid Bauer, Gerhard Schwabe, and the collaborators from AMAG Group, Rami Al Beati, Thomas Sauer, and Alex Scheitlin, who did his thesis within the project,…

Happy to share that our paper “User-centricity and Public Values in eGovernment: Friend or Foe?” has been accepted and will be presented at the European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS) in June. ✅ What is it about? Governments have an obligation to deliver public value. The digitalization of public services and user-centric design approaches can…