Herbert Kubicek

Herbert Kubicek 2013

Herbert Kubicek (born August 14, 1946 in Cologne ) was a professor for applied computer science with a focus on information management and telecommunications at the University of Bremen . Since 1999 he has been a board member and scientific director of the Digital Opportunities Foundation in Berlin and Bremen.

biography

Kubicek studied business administration at the University of Cologne from 1966 to 1971 and received his doctorate there in 1974. After working as an assistant at the seminar for general business administration and organization theory (1971 to 1978), he was professor for business administration at the University of Trier from 1978 to 1987 .

In 1987 he went to the University of Bremen. In 1999 he founded the Digital Opportunities Foundation there together with Jutta Croll. Together with Andreas Breiter and Martin Wind, he initiated the establishment of the Institute for Information Management Bremen (ifib) in 2002 by the Association for the Promotion of Scientific Research in Bremen, in which all research and consulting projects were carried out and he was the managing director until September 30, 2011 was. He has retired as a university lecturer since 2011 and continues to work as a senior researcher at the Institute for Information Management Bremen (ifib) at the University of Bremen.

From 1996 to 1998, Kubicek was a member of the Enquete Commission Future of the Media in Economy and Society of the German Bundestag.
From 1999 to 2002 he headed the Citizens and Administration working group in the Information Society Forum of the Federal Government and from 1999 to 2003 the Public Administration working group in the COST Action Government and Democracy in the Information Age (COST A 14). In 2011/2012 he was a member of the German Chancellor's expert dialogue Dialogue on Germany's Future in the Working Group on Opportunities and Limits of Citizen Participation . Until November 2014 he was a member of the scientific working group of the Federal Network Agency and until autumn 2017 a member of the board of trustees of Stiftung Warentest . Today he is still on the board of the Bremen State Association of the German Library Association and on the supervisory board of BREKOM GmbH .

His hobby is his collection of over 17,000 long-playing records with rock 'n' roll, pop, beat and soul music from the 50s and 60s, which he makes available to other collectors via the Internet and offers duplicates for exchange or purchase . For the computer science professor, this was and is also a field experiment on e-commerce to see what can and will not happen.

Awards

The German UNESCO Commission has recognized the research project e2democracy (lowering CO ₂ emissions from private households by monitoring consumption behavior) , led by Kubicek, as a project of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development .

Wolfgang Heilmann Prize for humane IT use from 2012 by the Integrata Foundation for his participation in the Freedom of Information Act of the State of Bremen and its implementation in the form of the central information register and for his contributions to democracy.

Writings (monographs only)

Information technology and organizational regulations. Conceptual basis of an empirical theory of the organizational design of the user area in computer-based information systems (= business research results. 67). Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-428-03320-5 .
Empirical organizational research. Concept and methodology (= Poeschel Collection. 78). Poeschel, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-7910-9087-9 .
with Alfred Kieser : Organization. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1977, ISBN 3-11-006565-7 (several editions).
with Alfred Kieser: Organization theories (= Urban pocket books. 514). 2 volumes (Volume 1: Scientific Theory Requirements and Critical Analysis of Classical Approaches. Volume 2: Critical Analyzes of Newer Social Science Approaches. ). Kohlhammer , Stuttgart et al. 1978, ISBN 3-17-002948-7 (Vol. 1), ISBN 3-17-004678-0 (Vol. 2).

Consideration of interests in the use of technology in the office and administration area through participatory system design. Basic ideas and recent Scandinavian developments (= reports of the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing. 125). Oldenbourg , Munich et al. 1979, ISBN 3-486-23931-7 .

Cable in the house - satellite above the roof. An information book on the current media discussion (= Rororo. 5528). Rowohlt , Reinbek near Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-499-15528-1 .

with Arno Rolf : MIKROPOLIS. With computer networks in the "information society". Deutsche Bundespost plans. Economic background. Social controllability. Technical details. VSA, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-87975-288-5 .

with Peter Berger : What does telecommunications bring us? ISDN - 66 critical answers (= campus row. 1034). Campus , Frankfurt am Main et al. 1990, ISBN 3-593-34370-3 .

as editor with Dieter Klumpp , Alexander Roßnagel and others: Yearbook Telecommunication and Society. 1994 to 2010.

with Stefan Klein: Prepaid cards in payment transactions. Trends and perspectives on the way to the electronic wallet. Gabler , Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-409-14073-5 .

with Volker Redder, Ulrich Schmid and Heiderose Wagner: www.stadtinfo.de. A guide to developing city information on the Internet. Hüthig, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-7785-2544-1 .

with Ulrich Schmid and Heiderose Wagner: Citizen information through “new” media? Analyzes and case studies for the establishment of electronic information systems in everyday life. Westdeutscher Verlag , Opladen 1997, ISBN 3-531-12991-0 .

with Andreas Breiter: The financing of new media in schools. Problems and possible solutions in Germany and the USA. An expert opinion. Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung , Gütersloh 1998, ISBN 3-89204-395-7 , ( digital copy (PDF; 755 kB) ).

with Andreas Breiter: Information technology planner for schools. Guide for general education schools to plan, estimate, and finance media integration. Bertelsmann Stiftung publishing house, Gütersloh 1999, ISBN 3-89204-454-6 .

with Andreas Breiter, Bernd Beckert and Martin Hagen: State initiatives to promote the information society. Multimedia pilot projects in Germany and the USA in their political context. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag , Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8350-6079-1 .

with Barbara Lippa and Hilmar Westholm: media mix in citizen participation. The integration of online elements in participation processes at local level (= modernization of the public sector. Special volume. 33). Edition Sigma , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8360-7283-0 .

with Bettina Lofthouse: Feasibility and profitability of IT projects. The early stages of project management. dpunkt-Verlag , Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89864-661-1 .

with Steffen Brückner: Business plans for IT-based business ideas. Business basics based on case studies. dpunkt-Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89864-639-0 .

as editor: The Diversity of National E-IDs in Europe: Lessons from Comparative Research (= Identity in the Information Society. Special Issue, Vol. 1, No. 3, ISSN 1876-0678 ). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht et al. 2010, ( online ).

with Torsten Noack: More security on the Internet through electronic proof of identity? The new identity card in a European comparison. Lit, Berlin et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10916-3 .

with Barbara Lippa and Alexander Koop: Successfully involved? Benefits and success factors of internet-based citizen participation. An empirical analysis of 12 case studies. Bertelsmann Stiftung publishing house, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-86793-304-9 .

with Ralf Cimander and Jochen Scholl: Organizational Interoperability in E-Government. Lessons from 77 European Good Practice Cases. Springer, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-22501-7 .

Participation is good, the citizens' vote is clear, the end is still open. Scientific evaluation of the pilot project Innovative Citizen Participation bypassing goods. Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh 2014.

with Günther Diederich: Security in online banking. PIN / TAN and HBCI in the magic triangle of security, costs and ease of use. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-09959-6 .

as editor with Georg Aichholzer and Lourdes Torres: Evaluating e-Participation. Frameworks, Practice, Evidence (= Public Administration and Information Technology. 19). Springer, Cham et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-25401-2 .

with Barbara Lippa: Use of the Internet in old age. Empirical findings on the age gap and recommendations for a responsive digitization policy. Vistas , Leipzig 2017 ISBN 978-3-89158-635-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Kubicek, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German computer scientist specializing in information management and telecommunications
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne