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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

“Our entire world will be driven by AI in 2050” – an interview with Marcel Salathé

13. July 2020/in Interview EN, Machine Intelligence EN/by Reinhard Riedl

Image recognition, language understanding, and decision-making: deep learning has made impressive breakthroughs. That’s why machine learning will have more and more impact on our everyday tasks. Therefore, mastering computational and data skills will be essential for everyone in the near future, says Dr Marcel Salathé from the EPFL in Lausanne in this interview* with Prof […]

Health 2030 – Implementing Digital Health the Right Way

How do we have to redesign health care so that people have more healthy years of life? Together with several hundred experts, the Austrian association Praevenire is working on the White Paper Health 2030, which is intended to provide an answer to the initial question. One important aspect is digital health, or the digital transformation […]

The SwissCovid app – many strengths, some weaknesses

22. June 2020/in Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Reinhard Riedl

From 25 June, Swiss citizens will be able to use the SwissCovid app, which complements classic contact tracing in the containment of coronavirus. Our researchers took a close look at the app before its release – a statement. The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has presented ten criteria for assessing contact tracing apps. Six of these […]

Digital schools during the Covid19 crisis (3) – Concrete recommendations

19. June 2020/in Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary EN/by Reinhard Riedl

The health crisis has caused a lot of damage. This makes it all the more important to use the positive experience that has also been made to compensate for the damage with new progress. Therefore, we must now use the push effect of the crisis. Do not turn back progress, but explore it: If we […]

Digital school during the Covid19 crisis (2) – Basic considerations

12. June 2020/in Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary EN/by Reinhard Riedl

As already outlined in Part 1 of the article , the performance of teachers was very heterogeneous and perceptions of the school situation during the lockdown diverged strongly between teachers and parents. From the point of view of the headmasters, there was much positive change in their teachers (which is factually true!), while from the […]

Digital school during the Covid19 crisis (1) – A situation analysis

5. June 2020/in Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary EN/by Reinhard Riedl

The health crisis has shown us how important teachers are. After decades of a steady decline in the reputation of teachers, we have had their irreplaceability demonstrated to us. On the one hand, children at home were a great burden for many parents, on the other hand, there was great variation in the quality of […]