The Centre for Digital Governance Thesis Prize is awarded to the best thesis on digital governance at the Hertie School during the academic year. We understand digital governance as policies and efforts of digital transformation to achieve public good.
Eligibility: Current students working on a thesis on digital governance supervised by any faculty of the Hertie School are eligible.
Process: Nomination by faculty serving as main supervisor of a Master's thesis at the Hertie School. Please send an email including the name of the student, contact information, the grade, comments on the final thesis to the student, and the thesis to digitalgovernance@hertie-school.org. In exceptional circumstances we accept two nominations by one faculty if both theses are of equal quality.
Deadline for nominations: May 31, 2024.
Centre for Digital Governance Thesis Prize 2024
Amin Oueslati (MDS 2024) won the 2024 Centre for Digital Governance Thesis Prize for his thesis "Watching the Watchers: A Comparative Audit of Cloud‑Based Commercial Content Moderation Services", supervised by Prof. Simon Munzert. Lianchao Lan & Melanie Kamrey Monique Fisher (MPP 2024, thesis title: "Emerging Pathogen Genomic Data-Sharing Platforms: Equitable and Rapid Data Sharing for Multi-Level. Genomic Surveillance in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries", supervised by Prof. Joanna Bryson), Claudio Minutillo Turtur (MPP 2024, thesis title: "To What Extent can the GDPR’s Adoption Explain the EU’s Innovation Gap with the US? A New Look into the Available Evidence, Six Years after the Regulation’s Entry into Force", supervised by Prof. Joanna Bryson) and Linda Maria Jäck (MPP 2024, thesis title: "AI for Better Diplomacy? Examining Challenges and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence and its Adoption in the Foreign Ministries of Germany and the US", supervised by Prof. Gerhard Hammschmid) recieved honourable mentions.
Centre for Digital Governance Thesis Prize 2023
Paxia Ksatryo (MPP 2023) won the first Centre for Digital Governance Thesis Prize for her thesis "Alternative Social Media for Whom? Constructing Publics on r/Mastodon Using Topic Modeling and Critical Discourse Analysis". Her thesis was supervised by Prof. Daniela Stockmann. Leonard Baum (MPP 2023) for his thesis "Policy Lessons from China: A Quantitative Examination of China’s New Competition Regime for the Digital Economy" supervised by Prof. Joanna Bryson, and Lea Pfau (MPP 2023) for her thesis 'Cross-sector Collaboration and the Role of Civil Society in Local Government Digitalisation in Germany' supervised by Prof. Gerhard Hammerschmid, received honourable mentions.
