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“Man is an analogue being” – Moritz Leuenberger on digitalisation, stupidity and democracy (1)

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Former Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger talks about the opportunities of digital transparency, the strengths of slow legislation, the advantage of natural stupidity, the need to regulate infrastructure and the “essentialisation” of democracy thanks to digital tools. This first part is aboutconsensus, transparency and direct democracy. Let’s start with a key question: Does the binary logic […]

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Digital personalisation – future opportunity or dead end (2)

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Part 1 of this column highlighted that digital personalisation optimises conditional expectation values to offer tailored products and services and prices. The condition results from the existing data and information about the customers. Ideally, this brings great advantages to customers and providers and changes society profoundly, because the orientation towards the average becomes the orientation […]

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What barriers there are for blind people on the net

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For blind people, the internet is often difficult to access. They are dependent on barrier-free websites or on appropriate software. Daniele Corciulo tells us in an interview what obstacles they still encounter in the online world. The 35-year-old accessibility consultant has been blind since birth and pleads for stricter laws and better training. Mr Corciulo, […]

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Digital personalisation: future opportunity or dead end (1)

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In many areas, personalisation represents great progress, economically and socially. It has complex causes and is, among other things, a result of scientific progress (which gradually overcame average thinking), as well as the crisis of industrial society (which led to more modern, customer-oriented marketing approaches), growing value orientation (which divides society today) and, last but […]

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New standard makes it easier to avoid barriers on the internet

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Digitisation could help people with a disability gain more autonomy. However, many e-services are not yet barrier-free. In order to change this, incentives, sensitisation, standards and improvements in training are needed, was the consensus at the national online conference on e-accessibility. For many people, shopping, banking and dealing with authorities via the internet is part […]

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Lessons from the COVID19 crisis: How the courtroom became (not) virtual (2)

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The judiciary has successfully mastered the COVID lockdown and has entered a “permanent crisis mode”. What has the COVID-19 pandemic changed about the future of digital justice? We have already reported here on the immediate response of the justice sector to the COVID-19 pandemic. While it is certainly premature to draw definitive conclusions for future […]