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Decision Intelligence: The Bridge Beween AI Investment and Impact, Part 1
Augmented Intelligence EN, Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution EN/
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Decision Intelligence is exploding. Despite massive investment in AI and data, 70-80% of projects fail to deliver results. Algorithms generate…

Digital democracy research that we really need
Column EN, Digital Government ENLiberal democracy is on the retreat worldwide. Only one small country is putting up resistance, Switzerland. For how much longer? Digitalisation…

An app for treating ulcers – technology does not heal all wounds
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENWhat functions does an app need to have in order to provide meaningful support for wound therapy? An interdisciplinary team from Bern University…

SmartSDM: The use of digital tools and wearables for people with severe mental illnesses
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENA BFH research project has investigated how digital tools and wearable devices are used by people with severe mental illness.
Digital transformation…

TWINT Was Just the Beginning: Toward a Scalable, Privacy-Respecting Digital Receipt Infrastructure for Switzerland
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENSwitzerland has launched digital revolutions: TWINT reshaped mobile payments, and QR-bill invoicing redefined how the nation pays its bills.…

Secure and trustworthy data rooms – a factual tour d’horizon
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Event report ENThe 17th Conference on IT and Law took place on 26 August at Bern City Hall and was dedicated to the topic of data rooms from a regulatory and…

Data shared – control gone? Not with EmpowerID
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENSelf-Sovereign Identity (SSI) allows personal data to be shared in a targeted manner. But once the data has been handed over, control is over.…

Building Competences for a Responsible Digital Future: The DIRECT Project
Augmented Intelligence EN, News ENAs the digitalization of our society and business world is advancing rapidly, technologies are reshaping how we work, learn, and communicate,…

BFH Applied Machine Intelligence at ACL 2025
Augmented Intelligence EN, Event report ENThe 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) took place from July 27 to August 1, 2025, at the Austria…