Just like in other towns, members of the Stuttgart city council have a large workload: In addition to their primary profession (e.g. as an engineer at Daimler Benz) they devote more than 40 hours a week to local politics. This extra work has to be done under fairly unfavorable conditions. Only council sessions and party meetings take place the city hall; the deputies of the local council do not have an office in the city hall to prepare or coordinate their work. This means, for example, that they have to read and file all official documents at home. In a city with more than 500.000 inhabitants they receive a very large number of documents. Furthermore, council members feel that they could be better informed by the administration and better use could be made of their time. Therefore Hohenheim University and partners* launched the Cuparla project to improve the information access and collaboration of council members.     «

Just like in other towns, members of the Stuttgart city council have a large workload: In addition to their primary profession (e.g. as an engineer at Daimler Benz) they devote more than 40 hours a week to local politics. This extra work has to be done under fairly unfavorable conditions. Only council sessions and party meetings take place the city hall; the deputies of the local council do not have an office in the city hall to prepare or coordinate their work. This means, for example, that th...     »