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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 75) has investigated this. Our researcher Reinhard Riedl is one of the authors of the final report recently published by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The use of Big Data can improve our everyday […]

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“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 of the BFH Wirtschaft podcast, procurement law expert Rika Koch and Thomas Fischer, head of law at KAIO Bern, talk about how public procurement can become more sustainable and why you […]

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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 to this digital age by introducing digital tools wherever this might be possible, safe and beneficial. There is a big variety of different tools for digital political participation but no systematic overview. For this reason, the […]

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12. Procurement Conference: Call for Speakers

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Speakers are still being sought for the twelfth IT Procurement Conference until 1oth February . The Institute Public Sector Transformation at the BFH and the University of Bern are inviting experts from the administration and from public companies, from the university environment and from the private sector to submit proposals for the programme.The IT Procurement […]

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How a Triplestore can publish data of the Swiss lakes

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The Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) uses a TripleStore database to publish environmental data on the Internet. This article shows which advantages such a technology can offer when building a network of environmental data. In collaboration with the Federal Archives (SFA), the FOEN has put a TripleStore into operation at lindas.admin.ch and published the […]

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Do citizens’ councils bring a democracy update for cantons and communes?

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In many countries, participatory and deliberative approaches have been used in recent years to increase the direct involvement of citizens in political decision-making processes. Apart from a few pilot projects, Switzerland is still largely outside this trend. In this paper, two examples are given to illustrate how such approaches could complement existing democratic institutions at […]