The Swiss electorate does not want an e-ID that is operated by the private sector. With the vote on 7 March 2021, they sent a clear signal: Responsibility for a digital identity should lie with the state. Parliament then called on the federal government to develop a state e-ID that takes particular account of data protection…

As the number of AI models grows, it becomes clear that many new applications share similarities with existing ones. Transfer learning and domain adaptation harness this overlap by repurposing previously trained models. This approach accelerates training, reduces data requirements, and improves model performance, making…

The design community is concerned that companies like Figma are using their users' design resources stored in the cloud to train AI models, often without their explicit consent. This jeopardises the creative autonomy of designers, as not only data but also their working methods are collected and used. Our guest author Christopher…

How can digital technologies be made more sustainable? Jan Bieser, Assistant Professor of Digitalisation and Sustainability at the Institute of Public Sector Transformation, is looking into this question. For example, he is investigating the ecological impact of digitalisation and developing concepts for environmentally…

Can green entrepreneurship be learnt more effectively with the help of chatbots? What do innovative, digital teaching and learning scenarios and modern learning materials look like today, and how do you create a sustainable learning environment?

The research project "Learning-to-be-Green" (L2BGreen for short), funded…