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IT security and GDPR compliance.

We are experts for secure IT infrastructures (including cloud solutions) and support you in meeting the technical and organizational requirements for a secure and legally compliant IT landscape. Our services include the verification of the conformity with GDPR, support of the Self Assessment according to the CoC for GDPR Compliance of the CSA and a preparation for an audit and certification of an accredited body (Third-Party).

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Digitization Strategy and Transformation

We support you in reaching the “digital age”, i.e. we strategically design and accompany your transformation process, which ranges from IT infrastructures to work organization and business processes. We have developed methods that include strategy development and conception, road mapping, implementation, evaluation and adaptation. Our goal is to enable you to assess potentials, define priorities and create confidence in your actions.

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IT consolidation

We support you in setting up and implementing shared service centers, sharing IT infrastructure components and testing alternative approaches such as cloud solutions. Our services include feasibility and profitability studies for consolidations, development of strategies and concrete concepts, support and consulting for implementation management, monitoring of implementation and further development.

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About Us

MISSION

eGovCD sees itself as a consulting and development company for the digitization of the public sector. We do not only have IT itself in mind but also the organization that changes through IT be it business processes security requirements the type of service provision. Our many years of experience in research,-development and consulting in national and international contexts form the basis for interdisciplinary and effective consulting in the planning and implementation of innovative projects. Our aim is to work in an application-oriented manner and to translate our know-how from research and development directly into products and solutions.

COMPETENCES

We can draw on bundled know-how from the areas of eGovernment IT infrastructures, IT service management, IT security, IT process management and collaboration. eGovCD's experts from research, consulting and development are working interdisciplinary including public management, IT industry, IT informatics and engineers as well as administrative sciences. Our competence is based on many years of diverse eGovernment experience, a sound understanding of innovative technologies and architectures and neutrality towards manufacturers and systems.

HISTORY

eGovernment-Consulting and Development GmbH is a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin. The company was founded in 2009 as a start-up in order to facilitate the transfer of research results obtained within the framework of R&D projects of the eGovernment Competence Center into the public and private sectors. Today we still maintain an intensive exchange with Fraunhofer FOKUS. Since July 2017 Stefanie Köhl has been managing the business of eGovCD. Previously, Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin was responsible for executive tasks, who previously worked for many years as director of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS.

Stefanie Köhl

CEO & Project Manager

Studied Public Management in Berlin and has many years of experience in research and consulting in the fields of digital government with a focus on IT-based administrative modernization, organizational change, public service delivery and infrastructures as well as public management with a focus on institutional arrangements, organizational design, management, crisis management and response. Her core competencies also include methods of design thinking and future research as well as strategy development.

Stefanie Köhl

CEO & Project Manager

Heidrun Müller

Senior Consultant

Holds a degree in administrative science and has many years of profound experience with the digitization of the public sector, especially in the municipal sector. Her research focuses on process management, multi-channel management for public service provision and the reduction of bureaucratic burdens with eGovernment. Her core competencies continue to lie in the area of information management and information security, including data protection. She also has extensive expertise in IT infrastructures and cloud technologies.

Heidrun Müller

Senior Consultant

Kin-Tsun Chiu

Research Associate

Kin-Tsun Chiu is a research associate at eGovCD and responsible for all EU projects. He holds a Master's degree in IT Innovation from the Technical University of Berlin. His core competencies are network communication and development in distributed systems.

Kin-Tsun Chiu

Research Associate

Paul Montague

Research associate

Paul Montague is a research associate responsible for research and business development. He is mainly in charge of international projects and is responsible for all topics of IT development. Due to his long practical experience during his studies (Software Engineering at the Epitech Paris) and internships he was able to gain competence in dealing with Azure and AWS.

Paul Montague

Research associate

Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin

Partner and expert

Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin is founder and partner of eGovCD and former director of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS.

Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin

Partner and expert

Gerd Schürmann

Partner and expert

Gerd Schürmann is founder and partner of eGovCD and former deputy director of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS.

Gerd Schürmann

Partner and expert

Prof. Dr. Tino Schuppan

Fellow

Pr. Dr. Tino Schuppan is a member of the advisory board of eGovCD, Professor of Public Management at the University of Applied Labour Studies of the Federal Employment Agency and Scientific Director of the SHI Stein-Hardenberg Institute. His scientific work focuses on the digitization of government and administration as well as on selected public management topics. He has practical experience as a consultant for municipal and state authorities in Germany, but also for international organisations. In addition, he has worked nationally and internationally on the development and implementation of digitizsation strategies.

Prof. Dr. Tino Schuppan

Fellow

Dr. Michael Tschichholz

Fellow

Dr. Michael Tschichholz received his doctorate in 1996 in the field of management in distributed systems. In the course of his work at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, he has worked in various national and international projects as well as in standardization committees with regard to e-government and was responsible for overall project coordination as deputy head of department. In the last ten years he worked in the field of e-government. He has finished his work at Fraunhofer FOKUS in July 2017 to work as a freelance consultant in this field.

Dr. Michael Tschichholz

Fellow

Services

Below you can find a selection of our services on our core topics

IT Security and GDPR Compliance

Assisted Self Assessment

eGovCD supports the analysis and veriication of compliance and develops corresponding measures.
Result: Professional report on risk assessment and necessary compliance measures

CSA GDPR Compliance
Trust Mark

Confirmation of the GDPR Compliance according to the CSA CoC GDPR Compliance.
Result: CSA GDPR Compliance Trust Mark (Self Assessment)

Risk analysis and definition
of measures for IT security

Risk assessment according to recognized standards and derivation of technical and organizational measures (TOM) to reduce risks.
Result: Professional audit report for risk assessment and necessary measures

Digitization Strategy and Transformation

Strategy formulation for digitization

Determination of the framework conditions, including necessities and needs, in order to formulate the strategic goals in workshops on the basis of the scenario method.
Result: Digitisation strategy

Prioritization of fields of action and roadmapping

Determination of the current situation, identification of the need for action with regard to the strategic goals and derivation of prioritized fields of action and concrete projects on the basis of evaluation criteria.
Result: Digitisation roadmap and project profiles

Implementation support and evaluation

Supporting the implementation of the measures and regular monitoring of the degree of target achievement and verification of acceptance.
Result: Regular monitoring and impulses for adaptation and refocusing

IT consolidation

Project and
economic feasibility studies

Definition of the concrete consolidation potentials under consideration of the feasibility, which is analysed and evaluated on the basis of criteria, as well as comparison of the economic efficiency of alternatives.
Result: Potential study, feasibility study, profitability analysis

Strategy and concept development

Development of consolidation strategies and concrete concepts for bundling, e.g. Shared Service Center, above all including analysis and adaptation of the corresponding business processes.
Result: Consolidation concept and process adjustment

Implementation management and monitoring

Accompanying the implementation of the consolidation concept to ensure success and acceptance.
Result: Monitoring reports and recommendations for action