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About Reinhard Riedl

Prof. Dr Reinhard Riedl is a lecturer at the Institute of Digital Technology Management at BFH Wirtschaft. He is involved in many organisations and is a member of the steering committee of TA-Swiss. He is also a board member of eJustice.ch, Praevenire - Verein zur Optimierung der solidarischen Gesundheitsversorgung (Austria) and All-acad.com, among others.

Entries by Reinhard Riedl

Digital democracy research that we really need

2. October 2025/in Column EN, Digital Government EN/by Reinhard Riedl

Liberal democracy is on the retreat worldwide. Only one small country is putting up resistance, Switzerland. For how much longer? Digitalisation is promoting the rise of autocracies, but can it also help the guardians of democracy? Recently, a former student, now responsible for digitalisation in her company, asked me the question: “Why do people accept […]

Secure and trustworthy data rooms – a factual tour d’horizon

11. September 2025/in Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Event report EN/by Reinhard Riedl

The 17th Conference on IT and Law took place on 26 August at Bern City Hall and was dedicated to the topic of data rooms from a regulatory and economic perspective. The conference revealed that there are many unanswered questions, but also some initial good projects. What are data rooms? People understand the term in […]

It started in Murten – the goal is a Swiss e-government architecture

14. August 2025/in Column EN, E-Government EN/by Reinhard Riedl

Switzerland wants an e-government architecture. This article explains why this project is so important. What it is about The organisational IT maturity of the public sector is crucial for its efficiency. If the organisational IT maturity is low, many institutions cannot work efficiently, i.e. institutions in public administration, security authorities and the judiciary, infrastructure providers, […]

Digital sovereignty, data spaces and large language models

30. June 2025/in Digital Government EN, Event report EN/by Reinhard Riedl

What does “digital sovereignty” mean in practice and how does it relate to the Swiss LLMs that are currently being developed? The article shows: Digital sovereignty requires national LLMs. Digital sovereignty is a political goal for Switzerland that is practically unattainable in its entirety. The question therefore arises: To what extent should it be achieved? […]

Swiss digital summit – Promising New Momentum

18. June 2025/in Digital Government EN, Event report EN/by Reinhard Riedl

Bürgenstock, sweeping views, pleasant ambience, distance from everyday life: Switzerland’s 7th Digital Summit on 19 and 20 May brought together the promoters of digital transformation in business, universities and the state. With electronic identity (eID), artificial intelligence (AI) and digital sovereignty, three key topics for Switzerland’s digital future took centre stage. eID 25 years after […]

Resource paradoxes of digital transformation (2) – the digital death of consensus

4. June 2024/in Column EN, Transdisciplinary EN/by Reinhard Riedl

Digital technologies enable everyone to participate in shaping politics. With enough commitment, social outsiders can have a significant influence on politics. This promotes the “democratisation of democracy” and at the same time makes politics slow and inflexible. Some time ago, former Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger spoke in an interview with Societybyte about his fears that […]