International IBM Research Prize for Fraunhofer FOKUS

16.12.2009

Identity Management and Data Security Research awarded with IBM Shared University Research Grant

Berlin, 16th of December 2009 – Fraunhofer FOKUS is now gaining laurels for its research activities regarding the electronic safe for data and documents. IBM awarded the Shared University Research Grant, which included prize money of 50,000 US dollars, to Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin, director of Fraunhofer FOKUS, on 15th of December 2009 in Berlin.
“With the award of the Shared University Research Grant we want to acknowledge the outstanding quality of the research activities of Fraunhofer FOKUS in the field of data security research in the eGovernment environment,” said Erwin Jung, director of IBM Science Relations. Together with IBM, the experts at Fraunhofer FOKUS are working on reliable data security technologies. “Our goal is to develop secure data management,” explains Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin. “This is the only way to create the necessary acceptance in the public administrations to increasingly utilise Internet-based services.”

 

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