Michael Ziegelmeir

• M.Sc. Politics & Technology, B. Mechanical Engineering
• Scientific Policy Advisor at Acatech

Blockchain is currently one of the most hyped technologies and comes with many advantages both for individual users as for our entire society. However, the drawbacks and risks are enormous. Cryptocurrencies do not only affect the political and financial system, but also have a large environmental impact due to their intensive energy consumption. In...

This work examines the environmental impacts of the High-Speed Railway (HSR) system operated by the Chinese Railway High-Speed company (CRH1). Hereby, a focus is set on both CO2 emissions and air pollution. The study especially takes into account the effects of railway electrification, traffic management, capital commitment, diversification of the...

Public-Private-Partnerships (PPP) are a popular tool to finance infrastructure projects, which cannot be financed by the respective region or country alone. PPP investments in infrastructure were growing since the 1980s and reached their peak before the financial crisis in 2008/09, while recently seeing a declining number of projects. While PPPs ha...

In little more than a decade, China has developed the largest national High-Speed Rail (HSR) network, operating more than two thirds of worldwide infrastructure. After being initially dependent on foreign technologies for construction and trainsets, a domestic ecosystem has rapidly emerged being supported by the government’s industrial policies and...

In this research, we proposed a model to test ADM systems in the public sector for trust-enabling criteria. We applied this approach to the case of Centrelink’s OCI system and, in doing so, identified several mistakes by the agency, which led to the destruction of trust in the program.

Diese Arbeit untersucht die Wichtigkeit der Berücksichtigung ländlicher Regionen beim Neubau von HSR-Strecken bezüglich der lokalen Entwicklung am Beispiel der Stadt Jena. Die in dieser Arbeit dargelegten Argumente bieten Raum zu der Annahme, dass zwischen der Anbindung an den Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr und einer nachhaltig positiven regionalen En...

KI als Wegbereiter in eine technologische Utopie am Beispiel von Star Trek anhand der Analyse von Herfried Münkler.

Künstliche Intelligenz findet durch Pilotprojekte ihren Weg in die Verwaltung. Dabei werden jedoch Chancen und Risiken zu selten gemeinsam berücksichtigt. Was unter Künstlicher Intelligenz genau verstanden wird und was für eine verantwortungsvolle Nutzung beachtet werden muss.

This paper analyzes research & development of artificial intelligence in Germany. Hereby, the focus was set on examining the regional effects on the labor market, research activity and cluster-building of Public-Private-Partnerships dealing with such innovative technologies. Therefore, three such models in Germany were analyzed. To concept a conclu...

More than 20 years after the topic was first on the agenda of the European Parliament, there is still no comprehensive EU regulation for common product origin marking. The introduction of a ‘Made in the EU’ label failed because of dissent between member states. The circumstances suggest a clash of two integration theories: While a common label woul...

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