Die City of Oranienburg and City of Wriezen, both located in Brandenburg (Germany), are the first municipalities in Germany to use Polyteia’s smart governance platform for data-empowered decision-making for the field of child care.

Both cities were onboarded with kick-offs in the second week of October 2018. Together with key decision makers from the city’s administrations and the Polyteia team all user were introduced in an on-site workshop.

For Mike Wedel, Head of Central Services at the City of Oranienburg, Polytei is about saving time and resources on the employee’s side for data processing:

Angelika Kerstenski, Treasurer at the City of Wriezen, emphasized the platform’s potential for effective governance:

Further, Angelika Kerstenski is Chairwomen of the Treasurer’s Associaton of Brandeburg, Germany.

Both cities are part of a joint cohort of municipalities that actively contributed to the development of the platform with user research and expertise. Oranienburg and Wriezen will be accompanied with a multi-stage feedback process in their first steps with the platform. They are both committed to co-create further modules together with Polyteia.