Lars Zimmermann is co-founder and board member of GovTech Campus Deutschland e.V., the world's first innovation, development and learning space for the modernization of government and administration. The federal government and the federal states are driving the Campus forward as a joint platform with the aim of developing digital innovations and technologies for the federal, state and local governments together with the tech scene and making them available for reuse. Before founding the GovTech Campus, Lars Zimmermann worked in various founding and management positions in technology and transformation consulting and was founder and spokesman of the board of the Stiftung neue Verantwortung. Lars Zimmermann has been involved in the areas of state modernization and administrative reform for many years and has developed, initiated and implemented a large number of measures and projects in this area. For the Chairman of the Foundation, Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert, Lars Zimmermann is "one of the most innovative minds we have in Germany at the interface of technology, politics and social change. With his help, the foundation wants to set new accents in the areas of digitalization and administration in its core topic of innovation in 2024 and contribute to making democracy modern and future-proof."
Countries need their own innovation ecosystem. Political education plays an important role in building such a system. For Lars Zimmermann, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation is therefore an ideal partner for ideas and experimentation: "The organization of a state is the basic prerequisite for its efficiency. Bureaucracy and administration must function, otherwise democracy will not work either. The Konrad Adenauer Foundation has a wealth of experience in the areas of democracy building and state modernization - not only in Germany, but worldwide. I am therefore very much looking forward to accompanying the foundation's work for a year as a KAS Fellow and developing ideas and projects together with my KAS colleagues to make governance structures more modern, more resilient and more open to technology."
