The notion of smart and sustainable cities offers an integrated and holistic approach to urbanism by aiming to achieve the long-term goals of urban sustainability and resilience. In essence, a smart and sustainable city is an urban locality that functions as a robust system of systems with...

Big data refers to the collection and aggregation of large quantities of data produced by and about people, things or the interactions between them. With the advent of cloud computing, specialised data centres with powerful computational hardware and software resources can be used for processing...

Das Bewusstsein um die Relevanz von Datenkompetenzen (Data Literacy) ist für die Zukunftsfähigkeit einer Gesellschaft mittlerweile an vielen Stellen vorhanden. Doch besteht derzeit nur unzureichend Transparenz im Hinblick auf die zahlreichen Projekte, Initiativen und Angebote zur Förderung...

The so-called traffic light coalition is facing a challenge: it has set ambitious energy policy targets, but can only achieve them if the pace of the energy transition is increased significantly. To contribute to the current energy policy debate, the Ampel-Monitor Energiewende (Monitor of the...

We exploit the introduction of an open data online platform - part of a transparency program initiated by the Italian Government in late 2014 - as a natural experiment to analyse the effect of data disclosure on mayors' expenditure and public good provision. First, we analyse the effect of the...

Shared transport services, including short-term vehicle rentals (bike-, car-, moped-, scooter-sharing) and travel sharing systems (ride-sharing, ride-hailing), have become more and more popular forms of mobility in recent years. Their increasing availability has made them an alternative to...

Deutschland schreitet laut internationalen Vergleichsstudien in der Öffnung von Verwaltungsdaten voran, kann aber das Potenzial noch nicht ausreichend heben. Dabei bieten offene Verwaltungsdaten einen hohen Mehrwert sowohl für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft als auch für die...

Our modern society and economy moves toward a knowledge-based and service-oriented global world. With the increase of mobile network, mobile devices, and internet of things, many industries, including government departments, private firms, and research communities, offer more transparency...

How companies report their data is undergoing digitization and sustainable transformation. Sustainability is important; therefore, various stakeholders are interested in sustainability information. Companies provide the required information and strive toward the use of information systems to...

Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat die Einführung und die Nutzung neuer, vollständig digitaler Lehrformate und -methoden in der Hochschullehre erforderlich gemacht. Insbesondere eher informelle, hoch-interaktive Lehrveranstaltungen wie Projektseminare müssen an diese veränderten Bedingungen angepasst...