Digital Government
The first question is: What will the state of the future look like? Digitalisation creates new possibilities for the organisation of the political-administrative system. The execution of tasks can be supported with intelligent digital tools or even completely automated. Processes can be organised and interconnected more efficiently, effectively and sometimes even completely differently than before. Administrative services can be better adapted to actual needs and personalised. The potential for innovation is huge and growing.
But the reality is often different. Many state institutions were unable to introduce a home office during the Covid-19 health crisis because the infrastructure requirements were lacking. When it comes to e-government buses, most people think of an information bus that travels from city to city. And they don’t want to hear anything about personalised portals for 10 years. That’s why the second question is: How do we get to the state of the future? How do we deal with the situation that growing complexity, acceleration of social change and a mix of technology and anti-institutional narratives are putting increasing pressure on the state? Or do we actually have to ask ourselves a third question: How can we reorganise the state’s guarantee tasks or even democratic processes with technology in an institution-free way?
All articles on Digital Government

Data Colonialism and the Role of the Public Sector
Digital Government EN, Interview EN
Data sovereignty – more than just hype
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
From notarial deeds to hate on the net – digital solutions for legal issues
Digital Government EN, Event report EN
Confederation and cantons accelerate digital transformation
Digital Government EN, Event report EN
A tool for smart community strategies
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary EN
“Open source is a manifestation of digital sustainability”
Digital Government EN, Interview EN
Call for Paper: Critical contributions for the Swiss E-ID
Call for Papers EN, Digital Government EN
A communicative Experiment on Digital Democracy
Digital Government EN, Event report EN
Public Security Test of the Covid Certificate: BFH assists with security
Digital Government EN, Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution EN
Allocating Vaccination Appointments: Why we should (and could) do better than digital Hunger Games
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
How a 2020 parameter turned our world upside down
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
Innovation in the public sector? Only with cultural change!
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
The Importance of a Good Fit Between eID Systems and Country Context
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
Power to the people: Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
Digital Government EN
A virtual space for Public Administrators and Citizens around Open Data, Information and Knowledge (O-KID)
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
Digital conference on the transformative power of data – that was Transform 2020
Digital Government EN, Event report EN
In Good Data We Trust – Liveblog from Transform 2020
Digital Government EN, Event report EN
“Lost in Transition” – a reflection on Digital Governance post-Covid
Digital Government EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN
Parliaments in crisis mode (2) – Old wine in new bottles?
Digital Government EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN
Parliaments in crisis mode (1) – variable experience with great learning potential
Digital Government EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN
“MeteoAlpen” – A Citizen Science Project for the Verification of Weather Models
Digital Government EN, Transdisciplinary EN
What can we learn from Covid19?
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
Digitization and the Environment: Opportunities, Risks and the Need for Action
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
April-May: Special Issue “Shaping a Sustainable Digital World”
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
CodeVsCovid19 hackathon: An app for herd protection
Big und Open Data EN, Event report EN
Covid19 Hackathon: Programming new applications from data
Big und Open Data EN, Event report EN
Password-free login procedures as a key player in digital transformation
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
The Swiss eGovernment Forum 2020: What it takes for the digital transformation of the administration
E-Government EN, Event report EN
Digitisation Monitor 2019 – How policy-makers position themselves on digitisation
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
The Federal Administration is aligning its human resources strategy with the digital transformation
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
“The public sector needs more dialogue and less garden-variety thinking”
E-Government EN, Interview EN
“We don’t just need a technology debate, but above all a socio-political debate”
E-Government EN, Interview EN
EasyGov.swiss: eGovernment according to the needs of businesses
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
January issue: Digital Administration Switzerland – from integration to transformation
E-Government EN
What digital skills we need now – all presentations from the Transform conference
Digital Government EN, Event report EN
Data, data, nothing but data. What do we do with it?
Big und Open Data EN, Transdisciplinary EN
How to design a collaboration network for public value creation
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
How traffic measurements enable smart street lighting
Buildings and Cities, Interview EN
Linked Open Data for Smart Cities? New developments from the research perspective
Big und Open Data EN, Buildings and Cities, Professional Contribution EN
How Lenzburg is becoming a smart city
Buildings and Cities, Professional Contribution EN
September issue: An ecosystem is essential for the establishment of smart cities
Buildings and Cities
Digitaltag 2019: BFH Wirtschaft is there with Smartvote and a data experiment
Big und Open Data EN, Event report EN
Basic registers and standards data as precursors for Linked Data
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution EN
Building a Linked Open Data Ecosystem for the Performing Arts
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution EN
Algorithms also discriminate – as their programmers tell them to do
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution EN
Turning Big useless Data into useful Big Data
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
The central role of base registers and standards data in breaking data silos
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution EN
How art institutions can manage their metadata
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution EN
Switzerland needs a constructive data policy
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution EN
June-July: Special Issue focused on Missing Links
Big und Open Data EN
Digitisation thanks to standards
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
Liveblog from eGov Focus 1/19: Open digital city culture
Buildings and Cities, Event report EN
Use of mobile identity solutions within the framework of electronic ID
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
The Digitisation Monitor 2019
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
Once Only in Europe – Can Switzerland be part of it?
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
The reconciliation of data reality and the real world – on the way to a data quality model
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
April issue: e-government does its homework
Column EN, E-Government EN
Open Data as a first step towards building a national data infrastructure
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution EN
ECH data standards support the cooperation of all stakeholders in eGovernment
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN
Management tools for the federal state
Buildings and Cities, Professional Contribution EN
E-Government-Themen im BFH-Zentrum Digital Society
E-Government EN
Good practices and bad practices – not with us!
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN