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City governments around the world have increasingly engaged in “smart city” initiatives. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are at the core of these initiatives. City governments appear to play impor-tant roles in making the urban spaces, in which they are embedded, more attractive, more competitive, more livable, and smarter. The authors interviewed City officials in Munich, Germany, and asked for the definitions of “smart city,” which they then compared to Munich’s smart city-related program. While the practitioners’ definitions differed in part from those in the academic literature, the smart city overhaul program at Munich city government had a direct relationship to the practitioners’ understanding of smartness. The authors por-tray and discuss the City of Munich institutional architecture overhaul and its expected and realized benefits, and compare the results to those of an earlier study on the City of Seattle. Both city governments evidently pursue different approaches, the effectiveness of which can more readily be assessed only at a future point of the smart city evolution.
This concept paper looks at the potential of open standards and web services as a basis for innovation. It illustrates the capabilities and characteristics of open data in a conceptual way, comparing hierarchies and heterarchies as coordination models. Moreover, it will seek to show that the Web 2.0 technologies basically follow the same principles and coordination structures as the social models of collaborative knowledge generation and innovation, using open data as a foundation. The point is to make clear to what extent and in what form open data, open standards, and distributed applications are effective as a starting point for ‘distributed knowledge work’.
While online information systems and platforms are being increasingly used, user expectations or the specific demands that come out of the usage context have received scant attention in previous developments. Therefore a finely structured, analytical instrument for evaluating information artefacts with specific emphasis on actors and usage was implemented in the Moodle learning platform for Moodle course room evaluation and tested with different student groups. Some surprising results came out of the discussion between the instructor and students. Moreover, this instrument, TEDS*MOODLE, can be scaled and flexibly customized and thus also integrated into existing e-government services and administrative networks.
Im Rahmen des Verbundprojekts „InterKomp KMU 2.0“ ist im Teilprojekt „Technik und Kultur“ der TH Wildau [FH] ein computergestütztes Lehrwerk zu interkulturellen Kompetenzen für KMU und insbesondere für KKU in Brandenburg entstanden, das inhaltlich und methodisch sowohl mehreren Anforderungen an Weiterbildungsangebote im Themenfeld Interkulturalität entspricht als auch dem Lehr- und Lernformat Blended Learning (BL) genügt. Der modular aufgebaute Onlinekurs bildet thematisch die wichtigsten Schwerpunkte des Bereiches Interkulturelles Lernen ab, stellt eine bereichernde Ergänzung für jede interkulturelle Bildungsmaßnahme dar und ist für Nutzer frei und kostenlos zugänglich. Für das selbstständige Lernen ist der Onlinekurs eine gute Möglichkeit, eine größere Sensibilität für interkulturellen Kontexte zu entwickeln und das Grundlagenwissen auf dem Gebiet der interkulturellen Kommunikation anzueignen. Allerdings muss er als Lehrund Lernmaterial in den Gesamtzusammenhang der interkulturellen Bildung eingebettet und der Lernprozess durch diskursive Lernmethoden in den Präsenzphasen professionell begleitet werden, um das Lernziel interkultureller Handlungskompetenz zu erreichen.