FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Digital contact tracking such as the Corona warning app is an everyday companion in the pandemic. With the Corona Warning App Detector, the Competence Center Public IT (ÖFIT) offers interested citizens a practical discussion of the much-discussed technology and thus enables a better assessment of the effectiveness and the consequences of use of digital everyday companions.

OW2 is an independent, global, open-source software community. The mission of OW2 is to promote the development of open-source enterprise software, generic business applications, cloud computing platforms and foster a vibrant community and business ecosystem. Dr. Yury Glikman, deputy head of the Digital Public Services department at Fraunhofer FOKUS, was reelected as a member of the OW2 Directors Board.

Since the end of 2016, 70 partners from business, research, and civil society have been working together in the SINTEG project "WindNODE - The Showcase for Intelligent Energy from the Northeast of Germany" of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Prior to the project's official end on March 31, 2021, a virtual closing event took place on March 16. In the project, Fraunhofer FOKUS worked on a marketplace for energy data.

Fraunhofer FOKUS has been tasked by the Commission for Determining Concentration in the Media (KEK) with preparing an report on the usage coverage of video streaming offerings. The KEK is responsible for ensuring the diversity of opinion in the context of the national organisation of television programmes and makes corresponding decisions.

How can cities and municipal enterprises use urban data efficiently, transparently and profitably? With the "Daten-Kompetenzzentrum für Städte und Regionen DKSR” (Data Competence Center for Cities and Regions), a project of the Fraunhofer Morgenstadt Initiative has been accompanied to spin-off at the beginning of the year. DKSR uses an open-source approach to help municipalities find municipal data, retrieve it in a structured way and share it securely.

The business unit Smart Mobility demonstrates how the open-source simulation environment Eclipse MOSAIC can be used to test and further develop Remote-Operated Driving (ROD).