It is one of the most important events for digital transformation in Germany: the "Digitaler Staat". This year, the congress, organized by Behörden Spiegel, will take place on April 25 and 26 at the Berlin Congress Centrum (bcc) under the motto "The state in transformation: This is where the administration of tomorrow is being created.

The OZG-Cloud stands for a groundbreaking project to advance the digitilization of administration in Germany. Commissioned by the state of Schleswig-Holstein and the IT-Verbund Schleswig-Holstein (ITV.SH) and developed under an open source license, the platform offers municipalities the ability to process applications from online services independently.

In 2023 mgm will again be represented at various congresses in the public sector environment. The first event will be the Bavarian Future Congress on February 9. The congress, organized by Behördenspiegel, offers an established platform for current and future developments in the digitization of the state and municipalities.

At the top of the podium for the second time in a row: Again in 2022, the Readers' Choice Platinum Award in the "Consultant" category goes to mgm. The winners in the ten categories were officially announced yesterday evening at the festive awards ceremony in Berlin. For seven years now, the "Readers' Choice Awards" have been announced by the trade magazine eGovernment Computing of Vogel IT-Medien.

With the Förderfinder, the Bavarian State Ministry of Digital Affairs is laying a decisive foundation for the digitilization of the funding system. The implementation project includes the development of a nationwide data standard for funding services, an editing tool for easy data entry and a search component for better findability of funding services. mgm supports the ministry in the functional and technical conception, the technical implementation as well as project organization, communication and rollout.

How can paper-based certificates in tax administration be quickly and easily replaced by a digital solution in the ELSTER environment? This question has been investigated by the project "Proof Platform ELSTER Self-Sovereign Identities" of the Bavarian State Tax Office.

There are about six million taxpayers of retirement and pension age. They also have to file an income tax return if their annual income exceeds the basic allowance. With the new einfachELSTER service of the tax administration in the KONSENS project, there is now a special online service: with the service, many pensioners and retirees can complete their electronic tax return in just a few steps.

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is launching the MODUL-F digital construction kit, a joint project commissioned and funded by the federal government to drastically simplify and accelerate the development and deployment of internal software applications for the administration.

The National E-Government Competence Center e. V. (NEGZ) has a new board team and an adapted organizational structure since yesterday. The general meeting in Berlin also elected Roland Kreutzer, Partner and Head of Public Sector at mgm consulting partners.

The digitization of German government agencies now has a wide range of solutions: from analog forms that are digitized quickly and 1:1, to completely rethought services and processes. But how well these work is often not clear. A new short study by the National E-Government Competence Center examines the potential of process mining.