Research

The Department for E-Governance and Administration conducts research on the effects of digital and social change on strategy, organization and processes. The department's research is twofold - on e-government e-governance, digital participation, and cooperation models and on information security to help society address changing socio-technical and legal governance structures.

Current topics include digital automated processes, decisions and also enforcement acts (e.g. Explainable AI), automation of discretionary decisions, data provision (via quality assurance, data trading to data use for evidence-based decisions), the Once-Only Principle at national and European level, Smart Governance & Digital Sustainability (SDGs) as well as security research, especially in the areas of cyber security and innovative information and communication technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and autonomous systems.

Within the framework of cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW), the department investigates and develops models for the use of digital technologies in public administration and their design in the digital age. In addition, two comprehensive projects deal with the creation of a basis for the digitisation of Austria today and in the future. In this context, the focus of the project "Digital Public Office" is on the development and creation of the necessary legal framework for the digital administration of the future. The "Strategic Action Plans" project addresses the necessary steps for the implementation in future against the backdrop of a digitally responsible society. Both projects focus on the development of concrete measures and fields of action on the basis of scientific expertise.

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Within the framework of transdisciplinary research, the Department for E-Governance and Administration investigates the effects of technological developments on the strategies, organization and processes in the digital network age. The project results will serve to raise awareness of the changes in legal and socio-technical government structures caused by digital change and provide the basis for taking sustainable decisions in politics, administration, business and society. Together with the province of Lower Austria, several projects focus on the transfer and implementation of digital solutions.

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The GovLabAustria is an experimental space located outside traditional bureaucracy and serves the public sector as a think tank for the cross-organizational development and testing of innovative processes and technologies to create the greatest possible added value for society. The GovLabAustria is a joint venture between Danube University Krems and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Civil Service and Sport.

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The project "Efficient priority of emergency vehicles in automated road traffic" pursues a detailed preparation of a specific traffic subsystem, namely traffic signalling systems, which have to interact reliably in all situations with connected vehicles and conventional vehicles. For this purpose, it is necessary to shapen existing permissions for particular user groups, such as emergency services or public transport. The resulting gradation of actual users at intersections should enable the processing of differently prioritized use cases in the overall C-ITS road infrastructure system. Key aspects such as reliable authorization management, practice-oriented application modes, a comprehensive cyber security threat analysis and the resulting security levels are to be incorporated.

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The potential of big data analysis in companies is enormous. Companies that implement data-driven innovation have 5%-10% higher productivity growth than companies that do not implement it. The innovation course "Data Science and Deep Learning" strengthens the knowledge of the latest approaches in the field of data science in companies and thus enables the implementation of data-driven innovation. In order to guarantee the transfer of knowledge into practical fields and to meet companies’ real needs, one transfer project per company is a compulsory element of the course. The goal of the course is to enable the participants to identify and describe potential areas of application for data science in a company, to formulate suitable solutions and intervention strategies, and to implement them in projects.

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The project aims to take advantage of the attention to the concept of Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) in Latin America and to integrate it into different university programs using new teaching and learning methods, as well as to develop new curricula at all levels of the educational process. In view of the increasing number of skills required and the interdisciplinary nature of the curricula for SSC in areas such as business administration, computer science, engineering, architecture and urbanism, urban planning, political science, etc., the curricula will be implemented by a collaborative and international network of selected academic institutions in Latin America and Europe to support the modernization and internationalization of higher education in the partner countries.

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Today's society is characterised by complex problems that require synergies across several disciplines and stakeholders to be tackled. The Gov 3.0 project explores the potential of using current ICT developments to address the challenges facing governments today. This is to be achieved through a combination of advanced technology and collaboration with the public. The project aims to lay the scientific foundations for "Governance 3.0", as the most advanced form of e-government, and to strengthen and expand it through the fusion of science and entrepreneurship.

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The ManyLaws project is a platform established to provide a range of services to citizens, businesses and administrations in the European Union, Austria and Greece. The overall objective of the project is to provide access to legal information throughout the European Union and to improve the efficiency of decision-making in legislative procedures carried out by public institutions. More specifically, the action will develop a platform (ManyLaws) that will provide a range of services to citizens, businesses and administrations based on text mining, advanced processing and semantic analysis of laws of the European Union, Austria and Greece. Furthermore, these services will be tested in at least two legislative procedures of the Greek and Austrian parliaments.

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The focus of the "Once-Only Principle Project" (TOOP) is on researching and demonstrating the "once-only" principle by implementing several sustainable pilots. These pilots are based on a federal architecture for cross-border cooperation within Europe in order to identify both positive and disruptive factors that could have a direct impact on future expansion of implementations. The functionality of the OO-principle is based on three pilots: cross-border eServices for business mobility, the updating of linked company data and online-based ship and crew certificates. The methodology in the project is based on the principles of agile research and project methods for the implementation of the pilots. It includes the reuse and creation of architectural building blocks and governance frameworks as well as a cyclical, iterative evaluation and a proactive dissemination of the results. The results of the project will serve as recommendations and best practice approaches for future developments and a broad adaptation of the OO principle.

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