Berlin The place where Germany’s administration is to be brought into the modern era is only a few minutes’ walk from Kottbusser Tor, one of those corners of Berlin for which the term “social hot spot” was invented. If you leave the “Kotti” with its small dealers and concrete facades behind you and walk a few streets to the new federal digital academy, you will be welcomed there by Sebastian Gradinger.
The 46-year-old heads the new authority, which actually doesn’t really want to be an authority. Gradinger wears casual jeans with his white shirt and thus seems to embody the balancing act that he wants to master with his new federal digital academy: to combine traditional administrative structures with the modern possibilities of the Internet age.
Gradinger’s digital academy is intended to train the employees of the federal administration, conveying them not only digital work processes, but also a modern management culture. Gradinger’s potential customers include around 500,000 federal employees.
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