On July 2, the Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz – GWK) decided to fund the NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence proposal (NFDI4DataScience). The consortium is coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems.

GovTech Campus Deutschland e.V. was founded on June 25th in Berlin. The aim of the association is to promote cooperation between administration, science and business as well as civil society.

The Competence Center Public Information Technology (ÖFIT) at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS examined the question: “How digital is Germany? What is the current state of digitization in Germany at the federal level?“ On May 6th, the German digitization index will be published for the third time.

The new Open Data platform combines the European Data Portal and the Open Data Portal of the European Union and creates a central source for high-quality data within Europe. As part of the project consortium, FOKUS is responsible for the technical migration of the data as well as the core components of the portal and supports the further development of Data.Europa.EU with its many years of experience in the design and implementation of national and international data portals. The platform is officially activated for users as of today.