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

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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Password-free login procedures as a key player in digital transformation

10. March 2020/in E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Silvano Fari

PSD2 and Open Banking open up new possibilities in the digital transformation of banking. A promising approach here is FIDO, which offers strong yet user-friendly authentication mechanisms. And is applicable to many other areas, our authors write. The Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2) requires banks in the EU to offer interfaces for accessing customer accounts. […]

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Referendum against the E-ID law

6. March 2020/in Cybersecurity and IT forensics EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Erik Schönenberger

There is a need for usable and trustworthy electronic identification. It is a pillar of digital democracy and will also be used for the exercise of popular rights. Accordingly, we need a digital extension of ID, passport and alien registration card, not an e-commerce ID. Like the issuing of the already existing ID documents, this […]

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Digitisation Monitor 2019 – How policy-makers position themselves on digitisation

3. March 2020/in E-Government EN, Professional Contribution EN/by Daniel Schwarz

Digitalisation is a major challenge for politics: Citizens, but also the economy and science expect forward-looking decisions in this regard. Against this background, the Institute Public Sector Transformation (IPST) of the Bern University of Applied Sciences, together with the Universities of Zurich and Geneva, the online election aid “smartvote” and the ICT and online industry […]