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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…
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“With process mining, we are helping to reduce CO2 emissions”

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Founded by three students, Celonis has grown from a start-up to one of the fastest growing software companies in Europe. They develop process…
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“Failure without a happy ending is not publishable” – Podcast about the dark side of entrepreneurship

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Successful entrepreneurs have visions, turn them into sensational business models and only sleep 4 hours. We know this glorified image, but hardly…
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How Basel-Stadt wants to prevent over-indebtedness with a tool from the BFH

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Thanks to digitalisation, data from existing administrative registers can increasingly be used in a fruitful way to monitor social issues such…
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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,…
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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…
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Three facets of the humane digital transformation

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How will the digital transformation affect our society and our lives, and what do we need to keep in mind so that people remain at the centre?…
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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…
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Digital & AI Literacy as a Pillar of Digital Responsibility – A Report from the Shift Conference on Digital Ethics

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Digital ethics is central to the use of artificial intelligence. It was the topic of the recent Shift conference in Zurich. The speakers come…
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