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Author: Professor Rainer Schmidt
Rainer Schmidt is a professor of business information systems at Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS). He holds a Ph.D. (KIT Karlsruhe) and an engineering degree in computer science. His current research areas include service science, enterprise computing, business process management, social software, business/IS alignment and the integration of these themes.
Enhancing societal cohesion in Munich through the Digital Transformation Lab Challenge
Social information systems – how we share information – use both public systems such as social media and private systems internal to organizations such as internal blogs and wikis. The MUAS Digital Transformation Lab is experimenting with a number of theoretical concepts to create a research framework on social information systems. The goal is to reduce polarization in opinion-forming processes, help people avoid false news, and increase social cohesion by reducing social media “bubbles” and increasing the range of information sources.