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Entries by Reinhard Riedl

Digital sovereignty, data spaces and large language models

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

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

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 […]

Networking and loss of consistency – Part 2: Distractions from the essentials

Almost 10 years ago, the insider discourse on data protection changed fundamentally. The residual utilisation of the findings of that time is in full swing. But instead of reorienting data protection, it is clouding our view of major social problems of the present We have (hopefully) all realised that the “bullshit in – bullshit out” […]