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Using instead of owning – how sharing pays off for the environment

27. April 2020/in Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary EN/by Nadja Stillhart

In Western consumer society, the importance of sharing has steadily declined since the second half of the 20th century. With the start of mass production, prosperity grew and prices fell. Products no longer had to be shared, as everyone now had their own car, washing machine and later their own computer. Sharing was thus unlearned […]

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Switching Digital in Teaching: A Short Experience Report from a 1-Day Online Teaching Event

15. April 2020/in Event report EN, Transdisciplinary EN/by Stephan Haller

Switching teaching to digital can be quite easy and still provide an excellent learning opportunity for the students: To let our students in the project management course experience what happens when executing projects, we play with them a project management simulation game. While in other years we ran this as an event in our biggest […]

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Digitization and the Environment: Opportunities, Risks and the Need for Action

9. April 2020/in Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Flurina Wäspi

Thanks to the radically changed living and working conditions in times of COVID-19 (Corona virus disease 2019), many people have become acutely grateful for the benefits of digitization, even while having to confront some challenges in the application of digital tools. The year 2020 is already being hailed as “the year of digitization”[1]. But digitization […]

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April-May: Special Issue “Shaping a Sustainable Digital World”

1. April 2020/in Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Beat Estermann

The digital transformation our society is currently undergoing affects many areas of public and private life. Technological progress has great potential for improving living conditions, but entails also a number of risks. In the light of other megatrends, such as climate change – and the associated negative consequences for people and the environment – it […]

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CodeVsCovid19 hackathon: An app for herd protection

31. March 2020/in Big und Open Data EN, Event report EN/by Nicolai Wenger

The virtual CodeVsCOVID19 hackathon took place last week. Nicolai Wenger was among the 3000 participants. He is a researcher at the Institute of Public Sector Transformation at BFH Wirtschaft and reports here on his experiences. Together with his colleagues from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, he developed the “Be a Sheep” application. […]

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Covid19 Hackathon: Programming new applications from data

27. March 2020/in Big und Open Data EN, Event report EN/by Matthias Mazenauer

Since the beginning of March, the Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich and its specialist and coordination unit OGD (Open Government Data) have been collecting all data relating to the coronavirus, thus creating an openly accessible data basis. Useful applications were programmed from the data at the “Monitoring COVID-19 Effects Hackathon”. Public statistics specialises […]