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?

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Open Source Business Potential: A Look at Odoo’s Open Core Model

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Open source software (OSS) has long been a cornerstone of the IT industry. But how can money be made with freely available software? This article…

Law, Law and Artificial Intelligence – Summary of the Conference on Computer Science and Law

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What changes does the new Swiss data protection law bring? When is cloud computing legally compliant? What should be considered when using AI…

Between Innovation and Security – Digital Working in the Legal Sector

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The summer ends on a heavy note. On 29 August, the biennial conference Computer Science and Law will take place at Bern City Hall. BFH Wirtschaft…

“Open by default” as law

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EMBAG obliges the federal administration to publish all software under open source licences in future and to release government data as Open…

Why digital and sustainable transformation must happen simultaneously

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Several 2022 reports from government and academic organisations contain the key message that sustainable development can be achieved using digital…

Interactive visualisation of cooperation in the National Council and Council of States

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The National Council elections are coming up in autumn. So it's high time to take stock and take a look behind the scenes of parliament: Do the…

Algorithms and Natural Language Processing in the Public Sector – A Review of the Transform Conference 2023

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The theme of TRANSFORM 2023, which took place on 3 May 2023 in Bern City Hall, was "artificial intelligence in the public sector". Machine learning,…

When the public sector authorities use foreign cloud providers for data storage

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Digital sovereignty is one of three annual focus topics of the "Digital Switzerland Strategy". It is about the question of how dependencies in…

How Open Data can work in the social sector

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In the course of the digitalisation of social institutions, a tension is emerging between two issues that are gaining increasing attention: the…

From Big Data education to regulations – the recommendations of the NRP 75 experts

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Big Data has the potential for comprehensive social, industrial and scientific value creation. The National Research Programme "Big Data" (NRP…

“Sustainability must become a criterion for quality” – a podcast episode on sustainable procurement

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While the Bernese police correctly procured its new fleet of electric cars, another canton fluffed because it focused on Tesla. In the 13th episode…

Which canton offers the most digital political participation?

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Digitalisation is impacting everything, including democracy. Young people live in an ever more digitalised world. Democracy, therefore, is adjusting…