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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 Sport in the Covid 19 Crisis (1) – Different Approaches to Crisis Management

7. August 2020/in Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN/by Reinhard Riedl

Sport can only develop economic and social charisma if it brings people together and moves them emotionally. That’s exactly where Covid-19 hit sport. Digitalisation has only partially mitigated this, but it has sharpened the focus on the economic foundations of sport. Review – Digitisation and sport As part of PwC’s Sport Survey 2016 [1], a […]

Discretisation of politics (Part 1)

28. July 2020/in Column EN/by Reinhard Riedl

A few days ago, I was surprised by the thesis that digitalisation is changing politics by making compromise more difficult. What may seem obvious to many readers, I did not understand at first. The analogy between the format of representation in computers and the result of human action was spontaneously incomprehensible to me. Why should […]

“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

30. June 2020/in Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Reinhard Riedl

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 […]