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.

Projects (Selection)

AI4Gov Accelerate

Duration: 01/02/2025–31/01/2029
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Peter Parycek
Funding: EU

Cooperation with the Province of Lower Austria on digitalisation

Duration: 01/01/2019–31/12/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Heidrun Maurer
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Improving Information Sharing and Collaborative Emergency Management through Data Visualization on an International Level

Duration: 01/10/2025–30/09/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Thomas Lampoltshammer
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

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Publications (Selection)

Parycek, P.; Sasdelli, D.; Edelmann, N. (2026). Digitaler Humanismus jenseits von „Human-in-the-Loop“. In: Krause, G.; Giesswein, M., Management Guide Digitaler Humanismus. Digitaler Humanismus in Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. 285-300, Springer, Wiesbaden

Sasdelli, D. (2026). Herausforderungen für die Formalisierung von Verkehrsregeln für autonome Fahrzeuge. ZVR – Zeitschrift für Verkehrsrecht, 01a: 109-112, Manz

Janssen, M., Zhang, H., Ojo, A., Nikiforova, A., Loukis, E., Pereira, G.V., Scholl, H.J., Liu, H.K., Durkiewicz, J., Hughes, L. and Zheng, L. (2025). Reflections on the nature of digital government research: Marking the 50th anniversary of Government Information Quarterly. Government Information Quarterly, 42: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2025.102086

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