Entries by Reinhard Riedl

Lessons from Covid-19 – Digital Universities (1)

The lockdown has changed higher education – probably permanently. Much will have to be redesigned in the coming years, but for now the challenges and opportunities dominate the autumn semester 2020. Teaching and learning were affected differently by Covid-19 than research and services. For the former, there was a compulsion to change in the short […]

Transformation of companies in the Covid 19 crisis (3) – Concrete recommendations

The health crisis has accelerated the digital transformation. We are facing a major transformation of the economy. It is now important for companies to make the strategic decisions that are right for them. They have to part with many things – first and foremost with their fair-weather speeches to their own employees The crisis has […]

The Discretisation of Politics (Part 2)

Does the binary representation of digital data with zeros and ones lead to less compromise and more black-or-white politics? In Part1, I described how the digitalisation of counter-intuitive and promotes the blurred, diffuse, non-resolvable mixed. In Part 2, I discuss options for how digital tools can be used in and change politics. Perhaps the most […]

Digital sport in the Covid 19 crisis (3) – Visionary action is needed now!

Financial support for clubs and safety concepts for spectators are necessary, but not sufficient to help sport through the crisis. It also needs more digitalisation – right now, here and now! The health crisis will be with us for a long time and will pose challenges for sport. Good security concepts and state financial aid […]

Digital Health in the Covid-19 crisis (3) – what should now be improved

During the lockdown, many countries had positive experiences with digital health (Atique et al., 2020). We should definitely continue the development that has been initiated. This means concretely: 1. Integration of telemedical services into conventional health care: Wherever the renunciation of physical face-to-face appointments only marginally reduces the quality of health care, but eliminates its […]