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More than a chatbot – how AI can be used responsibly in companies
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ChatGPT, Midjourney & Co. have shown how much potential software with machine learning has. However, in order to shape this change responsibly,…
Networking and loss of consistency (3) – the missing technologies
Augmented Intelligence EN, Column ENIs progress really accelerating? Is AI the technology of the future that will replace all others? Will we humans be relegated to the spectator…
How Gigwork enables self-determined careers in the digital age
New Work EN, Professional Contribution ENThe 21st century labour landscape is undergoing radical change (De Vos & Van der Heijden, 2017). New careers have emerged that are less linear,…
Why the gender pay gap still exists – a podcast episode
New Work EN, Podcast ENSwiss women still receive almost 14% less pay than their male colleagues for the same work. BFH expert Prof Dr Lucia Lanfranconi from the New…
Why Consumers Feel Creeped Out by Smart Devices
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENSmart home assistants are becoming increasingly popular. However, they are not only perceived by users as practical, but also as creepy. A study…
How does data become powerful? Definition of ethical data market
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENWith the Posmo project, researchers at BFH are developing a trustworthy data space for mobility. Our Scientists are developing and automating…
Approach ChatGPT like an Online Community and You are Good to Go
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENWhen reading across mainstream media and scientific magazines, it's hard not to buy into a collective frenzy that says that generative AI systems…
How the TecLab promotes young STEM talents
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENBats, solar systems, recyclable bridges or collaborative robots - the range of topics at the TecLab is broad. The aim behind the workshops and…
How Bern masters the balancing act between participation and data security
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENWhat opportunities does digitalisation offer Swiss authorities - and what needs to be considered? Jonathan Gimmel, Head of Digital City of Bern,…
How ‘big visual data’ can be explored and shared in a digital archive
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENWith over 105,000 images, the photo archive of Empirical Cultural Studies Switzerland is an important part of Switzerland's cultural memory.…
How AI is revolutionising work at the Federal Supreme Court – a podcast episode
Augmented Intelligence EN, Podcast ENPublic authorities and the judiciary enjoy our special trust. The requirements for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) are therefore particularly…
The Federal Supreme Court, Microsoft and a Christmas surprise
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENA few sentences on the freehand awarding of IT services and the moment when a swear word means something positive. Have you ever used a swear…
From technology to farm management – how smart is Swiss agriculture, part 2
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENSmart farming and technology in agriculture are the topics of the moment, which are also of concern to the Fenaco agricultural cooperative. What…
From technology to farm management – how smart is Swiss agriculture, part 1
Digital Business & Finance EN, Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENApps and digital business models have also long been used in agriculture. Although not everything is running smoothly, Switzerland is still in…
How are pharmacies supporting digitalisation in the healthcare sector?
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe situation in the healthcare sector is not rosy. Switzerland is facing major challenges; for example, the Swiss general practitioner and paediatrician…
How cities and authorities are becoming smarter – a podcast episode about transformation
Digital Government EN, Podcast ENChatbots are already supporting some authorities. But overall, the Swiss are dissatisfied with the pace of digital transformation in the administration.…
Networking and loss of consistency – Part 2: Distractions from the essentials
Augmented Intelligence EN, Column ENAlmost 10 years ago, the insider discourse on data protection changed fundamentally. The residual utilisation of the findings of that time is…
How public procurement supports the digitalisation of schools
Contributions EN, Digital Government ENSchools are not just educational facilities. They have evolved into high-tech hubs with huge demands for hardware and software. In their study…
Focus on external hospital care: identifying communication barriers with mapping methods
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENFunctioning communication and smooth information flows play an important role in the complex setting of outpatient care. The CuraComm project…
Networking and loss of consistency – Part 1: In the chaos of exploding transparency
Augmented Intelligence EN, Column ENThe digital transformation regularly offers us various kinds of shocking experiences: firstly, bizarre mistakes in implementation, in which the…
Using Artificial Intelligence in Care – an ambivalent attitude
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe attitude of nurses towards the use of artificial intelligence in clinical practice remains ambivalent. It ranges from the hope that artificial…
Why start-ups benefit from experience and diversity – a podcast episode
Digital Business & Finance EN, Podcast ENStart-ups drive innovation. Start-up expert Martin Murmann from BFH Wirtschaft analyses why older founders often pursue more risk-taking ideas…
Does “fuzzy voting” increase satisfaction with democracy?
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENAnyone who has ever been undecided about whether to write "yes" or "no" on the ballot paper before a vote is in good company: a survey conducted…
With enthusiasm and pragmatism for digital change
Digital Government EN, Interview ENOn 1 September, Christian Geiger took up his professorship in Digital Government, Innovation and Transformation at Bern University of Applied…
The Debiaser – Novel Tools for Bias Detection and Mitigation in AI Systems
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENBias in AI is a major challenge of today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The proof-of-concept technology developed in the Horizon…
How neurofeedback training can influence the perception of tinnitus
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENNeurofeedback training is an innovative technique that enables people to observe their own brain activity. A joint research project between Bern…
Why meaning is the point in our job
Interview EN, New Work ENLead ergänzenYerin, you are an expert in positive psychology with a special interest in meaning. How do you find meaning in your own work?I…
Between high performance and a feel-good job – a podcast episode on personnel development 4.0
New Work EN, Podcast ENIn times of rapid change and growing and more complex tasks, employees and companies alike are facing major challenges. Is the shortage of skilled…
A platform for the health of pigs
Digital Business & Finance ENHow healthy are Swiss pigs? The "Pig Health Info System" (PHIS) application has been providing information on this since 1 May. It enables data-supported…
How virtual reality supports performance skills
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENHow effective is Virtual Reality Public Speaking Training (VRPST) compared to conventional preparation for oral presentations? Researchers from…
Open Source Business Potential: A Look at Odoo’s Open Core Model
Digital Business & Finance EN, Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENOpen source software (OSS) has long been a cornerstone of the IT industry. But how can money be made with freely available software? This article…
What values the Humane Digital Transformation needs
Event report EN, Transdisciplinary ENBFH is committed to a responsible and people-centred digital transformation. What does that mean in concrete terms? In particular, what factors…
Two sides of the same coin: together, CSR and ESG concepts unfold their effectiveness
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENIn public and in business, the demand is becoming louder and louder that companies must play an active role in sustainable development. And companies…
When ChatGPT helps with the exam – a podcast episode about AI in studies
Augmented Intelligence EN, Podcast ENWill students have their theses written by AI in the future? How are universities dealing with this? And how does technology help lecturers with…
Digitalisation – beneficial development or social exclusion?
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENWhat opportunities and risks does digitalisation bring for people with mental illness and those affected by poverty? What is the role of social…
Law, Law and Artificial Intelligence – Summary of the Conference on Computer Science and Law
Digital Government EN, Event report ENWhat changes does the new Swiss data protection law bring? When is cloud computing legally compliant? What should be considered when using AI…
Sensor Technology in Health Care – Sensor Data and Algorithms (Part 2)
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENOlder people often move unsteadily and can easily fall and injure themselves. To prevent this, sensors could record and analyse movement patterns…
How digital tools improve cooperation in the export business
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENIn an Innosuisse project, the Bern University of Applied Sciences and the University of Applied Sciences Grisons investigated how digital tools…
A “data bridge” for business relationships
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENBusiness processes between two and more companies, so-called business-to-business (B2B) relationships, are mostly handled electronically today.…
When Peanut serves the tea – a podcast episode about robots in care
Machine Intelligence EN, Podcast ENThe future of care seems bleak because more and more skilled workers are lacking. At the same time, our society is ageing and more and more people…
The Data-Centric Enterprise: Where Revolutions Converge
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENRecent months have seen an explosion in articles about the generative-AI revolution and its effect on economy and society. But in fact there…
How Diversity and AI Will Shape the Fintech Industry
Augmented Intelligence EN, Event report ENWhat does the future of artificial intelligence (AI) look like in the fintech industry? What role do female scientists play? These were the questions…
Diffusion Models: A New Horizon in Image Generation
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENAs the curtain fell on last year, most conversations about generative AI in public forums and the media orbited around text generation, with…
Between Innovation and Security – Digital Working in the Legal Sector
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe summer ends on a heavy note. On 29 August, the biennial conference Computer Science and Law will take place at Bern City Hall. BFH Wirtschaft…
Sensor technology in healthcare – opportunities and challenges (Part 1)
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENHow can digital technologies be used in health care and prevention? Can technology relieve the burden on nursing staff? And what does it take…
All hope lies in stakeholder management
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENSwitzerland is limping behind in e-health - although individual institutions spend sums that the e-health pioneers can only dream of, even at…
“Open by default” as law
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENEMBAG obliges the federal administration to publish all software under open source licences in future and to release government data as Open…
A vision for 2035: How will the timber industry produce?
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENIndustry 4.0 is also being implemented in the wood industry. When looking into the future, however, it is not primarily about machines, but mainly…
What artificial intelligence is already doing in healthcare today
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENAI could extend the healthy life years of many people. But technological progress does not make it into practical implementation. We are researching…
Why digital and sustainable transformation must happen simultaneously
Contributions EN, Digital Government ENSeveral 2022 reports from government and academic organisations contain the key message that sustainable development can be achieved using digital…
Making the world more sustainable with second-hand clothes
Digital Business & Finance EN, Podcast EN, Sustainability ENSolving social problems that would otherwise fall through the cracks? More and more start-ups see this as an opportunity to implement their sustainable…
From tree to board – on the digital transformation in the forestry and timber industry
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENTrees and technology - the forestry industry is also digitalising. The BFH is promoting the digital transformation in the forestry and timber…
How business design principles are contributing to the digitisation of healthcare
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe digitisation of the healthcare system is strongly encouraged, but in practice it is often carried out in a careless and haphazard way. Successful…
Traumatic Click Work: The People Behind ChatGPT
Augmented Intelligence EN, Interview ENThe capabilities of new generative AI models or products based on them like ChatGPT are fascinating. Besides the concerns about what this will…
Interactive visualisation of cooperation in the National Council and Council of States
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe 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…
“With process mining, we are helping to reduce CO2 emissions”
Digital Business & Finance EN, Interview ENFounded by three students, Celonis has grown from a start-up to one of the fastest growing software companies in Europe. They develop process…
“Failure without a happy ending is not publishable” – Podcast about the dark side of entrepreneurship
Digital Business & Finance EN, Podcast ENSuccessful entrepreneurs have visions, turn them into sensational business models and only sleep 4 hours. We know this glorified image, but hardly…
How Basel-Stadt wants to prevent over-indebtedness with a tool from the BFH
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary EN
Thanks to digitalisation, data from existing administrative registers can increasingly be used in a fruitful way to monitor social issues such…
Algorithms and Natural Language Processing in the Public Sector – A Review of the Transform Conference 2023
Digital Government EN, Event report ENThe theme of TRANSFORM 2023, which took place on 3 May 2023 in Bern City Hall, was "artificial intelligence in the public sector". Machine learning,…
When the public sector authorities use foreign cloud providers for data storage
Digital Government EN, Event report ENDigital sovereignty is one of three annual focus topics of the "Digital Switzerland Strategy". It is about the question of how dependencies in…
Three facets of the humane digital transformation
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENHow 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?…
How Open Data can work in the social sector
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENIn the course of the digitalisation of social institutions, a tension is emerging between two issues that are gaining increasing attention: the…
Digital & AI Literacy as a Pillar of Digital Responsibility – A Report from the Shift Conference on Digital Ethics
Augmented Intelligence EN, Event report ENDigital ethics is central to the use of artificial intelligence. It was the topic of the recent Shift conference in Zurich. The speakers come…
How a 3D printer “cooks” food for sick children
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENMalnutrition in hospitalised children is a major problem. That's why the Bern University of Applied Sciences, together with the Fribourg University…
“Feelings need more space in the work context” – a podcast episode about New Work
New Work EN, Podcast ENWhat if we could let out anger in a meeting and our need for calm was taken seriously in the company? Feelings at work are important for our…
How humour influences trust in smart home products
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution EN19Smart home technologies (SHT) often perform tasks in the most intimate parts of their users' lives - their homes. To build trust in these technologies,…
ChatGPT: an oracle, a doctor or a joker? – Ethical boundaries of different tools usage
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENChatGPT is not a perfect, but effective tool for working with information. But a higher level of anxiety is justified by the emergence of…
How can inclusion succeed with the help of digital skills?
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENSocial organisations are directly affected by the digital transformation .It is not only a question of whether today's work components could…
Humane Digital Transformation: Towards a human-centered digitalization
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENDigital technologies are changing the way we live and work with consequences that are difficult to assess. The Bern University of Applied Sciences…
A Primer on Explainable AI for Natural Language Processing
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENMajor breakthroughs in AI are accelerating the adoption of AI-driven tools in industry, research, and government. However, the reasoning process…
How Digital Twins are utilised in industry
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENDigital twins enable completely new possibilities in different sectors such as industry or medicine. But what is a digital twin anyway? We discussed…
“We need to remove bias from language models” – a podcast episode about AI in administration and justice
Augmented Intelligence EN, Podcast ENChat GPT is all the rage right now. The trained programme can actually chat about any topic and hold conversations that seem human. But ChatGPT…
How Swiss banks and insurance companies implement sustainable measures
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENHow can the finance and insurance industry also contribute to a more sustainable economy? This question is at the centre of current debates in…
From Big Data education to regulations – the recommendations of the NRP 75 experts
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENBig Data has the potential for comprehensive social, industrial and scientific value creation. The National Research Programme "Big Data" (NRP…
What solutions exist for the transfer of identity information
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENBusiness processes between two and more companies, so-called Business-To-Business (B2B) relationships, are mostly handled electronically today.…
How a digital coach helps with rehabilitation
Augmented Intelligence EN, Cybersecurity and IT forensics EN, Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENAs part of the international eHealth project "CARE", the company Ateleris have developed a digital exercise coach that accompanies people as…
Diversity and precise blurring
Column EN, Transdisciplinary ENWe know from pre-digital times: Transformation processes should be set up as programmes consisting of small, focused projects. The programme…
Is Mastodon a new Twitter?
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENAs alternative to Twitter, many users have recently been switching to a platform called Mastodon. Our author has investigated, why, at a technical…
“Sustainability must become a criterion for quality” – a podcast episode on sustainable procurement
Digital Government EN, Podcast ENWhile the Bernese police correctly procured its new fleet of electric cars, another canton fluffed because it focused on Tesla. In the 13th episode…
What Citizen Scientists can do against visual hate
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENFacebook was one of the first social platforms to go online on 4 February 2004. Youtube was founded a year later in 2005, and Twitter has been…
“The customer need is more important than the technology”
Augmented Intelligence EN, Interview ENThanks to the Internet of Things, processes can be digitised and thus often made more efficient thanks to data exchange via sensors and applications.…
Which canton offers the most digital political participation?
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENDigitalisation is impacting everything, including democracy. Young people live in an ever more digitalised world. Democracy, therefore, is adjusting…
Programming? It’s also easier!
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENThe digital world also includes time-consuming programming. Although many things can now be "taught" or "parameterised", can 't it besimpler?…
Artificial creativity (part 2) – the precarious aspects
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENArtists are different than we like to imagine them. That's why many don't see AI as a threat, but as an opportunity. Why is that? Let's first…
Why platforms drive the circular economy
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living EN, Sustainability ENThe use of digital technologies (DT) to promote circular practices in all industrial sectors plays a key role in addressing the issues of sustainability,…
12. Procurement Conference: Call for Speakers
Digital Government EN, News ENSpeakers are still being sought for the twelfth IT Procurement Conference until 1oth February . The Institute Public Sector Transformation at…
Generative AI – what is it and what is it capable to do?
Augmented Intelligence EN, Interview ENIn the media, there have been more and more special coverages on the topic of artificial intelligence in recent times, for example in the Tagesanzeiger…
How Spitex is becoming all-round digital – a pilot project by Spitex and BFH
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution EN Spitex Bern has launched a pilot project together with the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH): Over a period of four years, the Spitex…
Why eating spaghetti can earn you minus points
Digital Business & Finance EN, Podcast ENFrom environmental protection to customs clearance to taxes - the Chinese government also monitors companies. Researcher Omar Serrano from the…
Artificial creativity (part 1) – a first approach
Augmented Intelligence EN, Column ENCan AI do art? This question is becoming increasingly important. However, only the question mark is clear about this sentence. None of the three…
Hi ChatGPT, are you biased?
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENChatGPT is a recent language model that is being prominently discussed in the media. Since we know from our previous research that language models…
How a Triplestore can publish data of the Swiss lakes
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) uses a TripleStore database to publish environmental data on the Internet. This article shows which…
Do citizens’ councils bring a democracy update for cantons and communes?
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENIn many countries, participatory and deliberative approaches have been used in recent years to increase the direct involvement of citizens in…
“Ten per cent are LGBTIQ” – a podcast episode about diversity in working life
New Work EN, Podcast ENWhether age, gender or sexual orientation - colourfully mixed teams work together more productively and are increasingly encouraged in companies.…
Towards deep learning-based weather reconstruction of the Great Frost
Machine Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENIn the early 18th century, Europe experienced a mini ice age, which has been proven to be the coldest period of the last 1000 years [1]. Our…
Do we need a new mindset for Smart City & Living?
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENThe planning of our built world must evolve to be climate compliant. The climate will dictate the building plan of the future. Concepts of sustainability…
Energy and climate data in the canton of Bern presented on a new platform
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENBFH Business School makes data visible: The Digital Sustainability Lab of the Institute Public Sector Transformation has realised a platform…
The revolution of polymer trading: how Meraxis drives digital innovation across their ecosystem
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENWorking sustainably with plastics and recycling - that is the goal of the Bern-based company Meraxis. Michael Grysczyk, Head of Digital and Disruptive…
Bringing open data to life and making it tangible through visualisations
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENWhich members of the Grand Council intervene the most, and with whom? Do parliamentarians work together across political divides? Are men more…
How can digital platforms enhance circular economy practices in value chain networks?
Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENThe emergence of digital technologies (DTs) to promote circular practices across all industries plays a key role to tackle challenges we currently…
The Future of Democracy: Why the Trends of Participation and Deliberation Give Hope
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENWhat can be done when citizens do not trust their governments or do not exercise their rights of participation? Innovative approaches are needed…
“We are all connected to the phenomenon of data colonialism”
Digital Government EN, Interview ENThe media scientist and expert on data sovereignty, Ulises Mejías, was a guest at BFH Wirtschaft for a few weeks last May on the occasion of…
How technology helps us navigate around the data protection icebergs
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENPrivacy enhancing technologies ensure that the security risks of processing customer data remain manageable, your customer data is protected…
Exploring democracy 2.0 with experiments
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENFrom fuzzy voting to liquid feedback - how much change does democracy need? The project "Democracy Lab Basel" by BFH Wirtschaft and Smart Regio…
“Equal opportunities are an economic necessity” – a podcast episode
New Work EN, Podcast ENThree women from politics who are keen to see more female-led start-ups: in the 9th episode we talk to Aline Trede, National Councillor for the…
Obituary: A great champion of Open Access is no more
Digital Government EN, Transdisciplinary ENDaniel Hürlimann, Professor of Legal Informatics and IT Law at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) and Attorney at Law by Laux Lawyers…
How routine clinical data help with quality measurements in hospitals
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe advancing digitalisation in hospitals means that clinical data are increasingly available electronically in the hospital information system.…
How companies use our data, but also protect it
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENCompanies have immense potential with our data, which they can use to develop products and applications. At the same time, they must also take…
Creating a future: The tower of Babel or a bridge?
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENIn the digital age, we benefit from the achievements of research and technology more than ever before. At the same time, facts are also doubted…
Why usability testing does not guarantee a successful product
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENAs someone who has been teaching usability and human-centred design for many years and in various countries, I am of course pleased that the…
Myth of digitalisation – reasons for not happening
Column EN, Transdisciplinary EN"The digital transformation is not happening." This finding applies to many areas. It means that while digital tools are being introduced for…
How Satellite Images help to detect the Severity of Wildfires
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENWildfires lead to changes to our ecosystems and can have serious social and economic impacts. In the last few years, the number of wildfires…
Digital transformation at the Swiss Post – when digital meets physical
Digital Business & Finance EN, Interview EN, Nicht kategorisiertMore than technology, successful digital transformation is about the changes in processes and structures in an organization - in other words,…
“It’s neither fair nor economically wise” – a podcast episode about the situation of female founders in Switzerland
Digital Business & Finance EN, New Work EN, Podcast ENFor every 10 men who start a business, there are only 6 women. In the 8th episode of our podcast, we talk about the reasons for this and how…
Digital Physiotherapy – A Future Model in Switzerland?
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe nationwide lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic led to an increase in digital services in outpatient physiotherapy. The Bern University…
What skills the employees of a digital administration need
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENDigital services for citizens and more efficient processes - these are two of the goals of an administration of the future. In order for this…
From blended care to virtual reality – the transformation of the healthcare system
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe Digital Health innovation field at Bern University of Applied Sciences conducts research in the area of digitalisation and technologisation…
Will Digitalization aid the world’s quest to net-zero emissions?
Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENThe increasing global awareness of climate change and the irreversible damages caused has led the world to a code red. Wildfires, floods, heatwaves,…
How to detect and reduce bias in AI systems
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENBias is a major cause of unfair and discriminatory decisions in the use of AI systems. For example, well-paid job offers were algorithmically…
Why we accept automated products less out of nostalgia
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENArtificial intelligence again increases the workload of automated products. The resources freed up are valuable for consumers - at least in theory.…
How can the digitalization improve the sustainability in agriculture?
Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENWe live in a world with limited resources. Ignoring that fact, led us to become a throwaway-society. Most business models are based on waste…
How the Fashion Industry can become more sustainable
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENWhen you think of the fashion industry, fast fashion and poorly paid seamstresses in Asia might first come to your mind. In a personal report,…
Smart tourism: where digitalization meets sustainability
Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENYes, traveling is a wonderful thing. But so is protecting the environment! Our our Master's student writes about his world trip and what sustainable…
What moral values mean for corporate social responsibility
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENMore and more companies are taking on social responsibility. The role of moral values in this is the subject of a study written by David Risi…
Posmo: Ethical revolution in the mobility data market
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENTo revolutionise the Swiss mobility data market and thereby help us to better understand our mobility behaviour and thus shape our living space…
How the app Memorybox helps foster children to remember
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENChildren who grow up in institutions or with foster parents are often unable to develop a continuous memory. The Departments of Technology and…
Agility – more than the sum of its parts
Event report EN, Transdisciplinary ENAgility is a key competence in the 21st century and not only determines projects but also influences ways of thinking and acting of entire organisations…
Pinkwashing – all foam or real inclusion of LGBTIQ+ people?
New Work EN, Professional Contribution ENThe rainbow is in high season during Pride Month in June. The rainbow flag flies on company roofs and messages, logos and websites become colourful.…
How prototypes influence the success of technology crowdfunding
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENWhen technology companies seek financial support via a crowdfunding platform, they have more success if their prototype is not yet final and…
How we can improve the framework conditions for female founders in Switzerland
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENIn Switzerland, women are less likely to start an innovative company than men. Researchers at BFH Wirtschaft have investigated the reasons for…
How we can make cities more sustainable – a podcast episode about smart cities
Podcast EN, Smart City & Living ENMaking cities greener, rethinking mobility, using energy cleverly and involving as many citizens as possible in democratic processes - smart…
The New Way to Trade Art – An Insight into NFT Marketplaces
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary EN2021 is a year in which a JPEG - a digital image - sold for 69 million dollars, in the midst of a global pandemic and at a time when the digitisation…
What contemporary identity management must fulfil
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENWith increasing data protection requirements, it is becoming more and more important to take the data sovereignty of users into account. Therefore,…
Free the data! – How the health sector is overcoming the system blockade
Digital Health EN, Event report ENThe fourth Praevenire Digital Health Symposium in Seitenstetten, Austria, focused on the use of health data and how this would improve healthcare.…
Why better usability makes the digital world more socially just
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENSimple, easy-to-use interfaces should be a matter of course today. But machine logic is still too often in the foreground and leads to unnecessary…
Data Colonialism and the Role of the Public Sector
Digital Government EN, Interview ENData is not only the oil of the digital age, but also a commodity that can be unethically obtained or misused. Prof. Dr Ulises Mejîas from the…
The future of healthcare: from vision to best practices
Digital Health EN, News ENOn the one hand, the pandemic has posed new challenges for the healthcare system, on the other hand, it has provided a considerable impetus for…
Why we should sometimes think in terms of Zero and One – a podcast episode about digital skills
Podcast EN, Transdisciplinary ENBeing able to teach artificial intelligence our chaotic thinking - that is a skill we will need in the future. Using technologies profitably…
Data sovereignty – more than just hype
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENDigital sovereignty is used by governments in Europe as well as by the EU Commission as a reference for the digital policy legal decrees that…
How the Swiss assistance robot Lio supports nursing care
Digital Health EN, Interview ENRobots can take over repetitive and monotonous tasks in the care of sick and elderly people and thus relieve the nursing staff. A Zurich-based…
Applied NLP Technologies for Physical and Mental Health
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENThe Applied Machine Intelligence research group from BFH-TI has organized a track with the topic of natural language processing for physical…
On the potentials and hurdles of the Swiss circular economy
Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENAlthough Switzerland theoretically has all the possibilities for more sustainable and ecological production, this is not yet being implemented.…
Robo-Advisor, Robot Lawyer, and Healthbot – Barriers and Solution Strategies for the Acceptance of AI Advisors
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENAI-based consulting services are all the rage in the service sector. If we look at the evolution of AI-based applications, relatively simple…
How mature is the use of self-driving minibuses?
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENThey are small, safe and cheap: minibuses without drivers and chauffeurs. Bernmobil has tested them in a pilot project in the Matte and Marzili…
From notarial deeds to hate on the net – digital solutions for legal issues
Digital Government EN, Event report ENWho would like to spend a whole Sunday and half a Monday and the night in between in a legal laboratory? 90 people answered yes to this question,…
How artificial intelligence detects burnouts via linguistic data
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENComputers are fed words and phrases every day. Trained programs can recognise or even predict patterns in this data. Scientists from the Applied…
Why zebras are more sustainable than unicorns – a podcast episode about social entrepreneurship
Podcast EN, Sustainability ENSociety needs the commitment of volunteers. Without them, for example, the Corona warning app would not have been launched so quickly at the…
Between Cyber Sickness & Wow Effect: How Virtual Reality influences learning
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENWith virtual reality goggles, one can immerse oneself in any imaginable world. This is also used for learning. In an experimental study, researchers…
Axiom Award for Handbook of Digital Transformation
Digital Business & Finance EN, News ENProf. Dr. Nikolaus Obwegeser and his colleagues from the IMD Business School Lausanne will receive the Axiom Book Award 2022 for a practical…
A label for digital responsibility: The Digital Trust Label
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENWith the ever-increasing importance of digital applications and a growing awareness of digital risks, the issue of digital responsibility is…
Digital competence = digital + analogue – a definition example of Spitex
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENDigital tools such as apps on smartphones/tablets for care documentation or to remind patients to take their medication, as well as wearables…
AI4SocialGood – towards a better world with augmented intelligence?
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENWhat does AI4SocialGood mean and how can technology be used for societal and social benefit? Our author explores this question and presents some…
How platform work becomes sustainable
Interview EN, New Work ENGetting food delivered and booking an Uber for a spontaneous ride - thanks to digital technology, there are more and more options for location-independent…
How Digital Natives, Millennials and Generation Z are shaping the IT industry – 60 years of digital transformation, part 4
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENPeople are the most important factor in the modern age, write Chuck and Ken. In the 4th and final part of their mini-series, the father-son team…
When customers do not understand the benefits of radical innovations
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENHas your company successfully developed a revolutionary product that offers customers unique added value? Congratulations! Now they "only" have…
How Dealers helped the Explosion of Minicomputers – 60 years of digital transformation, part 3
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThanks to the invention of the first microchips, minicomputers spread to all industries from the 1970s onwards. Chuck and Ken, a father-son team…
About the mainframes of the Iron Age – 60 years of digital transformation, part 2
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENChuck and Ken, a father-son team of computer experts, take an entertaining look back at their own six decades in the IT industry. In the 2nd…
From punch card devouring monsters to the first computers – 60 years of digital transformation, part 1
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENChuck and Ken, father and son, both IT experts, take an fun look back at their own six decades in IT. They explore how digital transformation…
“The whole IT industry needs to invest in information and education”
Interview EN, New Work ENPersonality development is a keyword in today's employer branding to attract more women in ICT. However, this keyword should also be lived and…
“We want to support contemporary role models”
Interview EN, New Work ENAttractive working conditions, exciting projects - and yet there is a lack of female ICT specialists in particular. Marco Bürli, Head of Project…
The unease of interdisciplinarity
Column EN, Transdisciplinary ENThere are people who get sick from psychotherapy. After psychotherapy has actually helped them, they look at everything and anything from a psychotherapeutic…
How useful is the new Swiss Digital Trust Label?
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, News ENThe Swiss Digital Initiative Foundation wants to create more cyber security with the new digital label. The aim is to enable users to easily…
How digital tools support care
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENHow does the use of digital tools and clinical information systems affect the sharing of patient information? How can nurses be trained to use…
Agriculture today: Between idealized notion and technology
Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENAgriculture is facing great challenges. On the one hand, it has to be economically successful, but at the same time it has to meet ecological…
Inclusive and diverse language? – A language model shows how it works
Machine Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENNatural Language Processing is a branch of linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with the interaction…
How an app assesses the usability of forest roads
Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENForest roads are the basis for sustainable forest management. Forests should always be easily accessible for ecological, social and economic…
What opportunities and risks the digitalised world of work offers – a podcast episode of the BFH Economy
New Work EN, Podcast ENMany people have been working in home offices since the beginning of the pandemic. This can be a blessing and a curse at the same time. Prof.…
Will “Verifiable Credentials” replace X.509 certificates in the future?
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional ContributionX.509 certificates have been around for over 40 years. They are used for the identification of subjects (web servers, persons, etc.). They are…
A Medical Decision System to Prescribe Antibiotics
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENAdverse drug reactions lead to deaths in the healthcare system, especially the ones linked to antibiotic prescriptions. In order to reduce and…
How to get more Women into Data Science
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENJust around 25% of the participants of the 8th Swiss Conference on Data Science are female. This aligns with the report from the World Economic…
How football clubs can digitise their sponsorship
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThanks to Covid 19 certification, full stadiums are partly allowed again and fans are finally allowed to support their favourite club on site.…
Shaping artificial intelligence – an example from nursing care
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe development of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to analyse and understand data has gained momentum. AI began as early as the 1950s.…
Holacracy as a solution to the pressure of changeability?
New Work EN, Professional Contribution ENDigitale Transformation, VUCA-Welt (volatil, unsicher, komplex, mehrdeutig) New Work und vor allem Wandelbarkeit von Organisationen spiegel den…
How an algorithm helps to create lesson plans
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENCreating lesson plans for an entire year is a complex task. Artificial intelligence can support this and often even plan better than humans.…
How apps can help with mental health problems
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENVarious mental health apps have been developed to support clinical professionals and patients. What is already possible today and what does it…
How New Work relates to Employability 4.0 and exhaustion
Event report EN, New Work ENWith a graphic review of the Transform 2021 conference, BFH lecturer Mägi Brändle summarises the contributions from AI to Positive Leadership.…
Confederation and cantons accelerate digital transformation
Digital Government EN, Event report ENThe "Digital Administration Switzerland" is intended to give e-government a boost. How the new organisation and the eCH association could more…
Using AI to understand how media content influences us
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENNewspaper content can change the way people think or their mood because of its polarity. That is why it is vital to understand its importance.…
The Future of the Digital “Public Service
Column EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe term "service public" or "digital services of general interest", is used as a political, administrative law and social science concept. What…
“It’s not the girls who have to change, it’s all of us!”- Alain Gut in interview, part 2
Interview EN, New Work ENIn order to get girls interested in computer science professions, an image change is needed. They are still too often seen as technical. But…
“It’s not the girls who have to change, it’s all of us!”- Alain Gut says in interview, part 1
Interview EN, New Work ENHow does digitalisation affect women and men? Does it bring the opportunity to balance out existing gender-specific inequalities in the labour…
How Virtual Reality comes to the stage
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe Kleintheater Luzern is venturing into the digital age - away from the strictly real stage towards hybrid experiments. Cultural manager Fabienne…
How a WIFI-Hotspot kill your ecological footprint
Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENDigitalization and Sustainability are major topics in our society. Often, I observe that the trends run in parallel to each other, almost isolated…
6 reasons against a central state identity provider
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENThe Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) presents three different technical scenarios in its "E-ID target picture" . One of them is…
Connecta 2021 looks to the future
Augmented Intelligence EN, Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Event report ENThe ongoing pandemic left the organisers of Connecta no other choice this year: The event on digitalisation, which is well-known beyond the borders…
How to implement and accelerate your Business Transformation
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENTriggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation has made it to the top of the business agenda. When an organization is facing obvious…
Centralised or decentralised identity?
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENIn recent years, the term "decentralised identity" has appeared more and more frequently in discussions about electronic identities. This is…
Call for Papers: Augmented Intelligence in Practice
Augmented Intelligence EN, Call for Papers ENAugmented intelligence instead of Artificial Intelligence - various industries are already benefiting from smart technologies to give employees…
A tool for smart community strategies
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENA smart government platform for small and medium-sized municipalities - this is what researchers at the Institute of Public Sector Transformation…
Self-Sovereign-Identity – from vision to today
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENA few years have passed since Christopher Allen's vision of Self-Sovereign Identities. What has remained of the original vision of "SSI" and…
“Open source is a manifestation of digital sustainability”
Digital Government EN, Interview ENIn the new Digital Sustainability Lab of the Institute Public Sector Transformation (IPST), a team of researchers develops mobile apps and web…
Women in ICT: “I am happy about every female applicant”
Interview EN, New Work ENThe ICT sector is lacking skilled workers, which is why it is increasingly recruiting female talent. In an interview, Managing Director Sandra…
“Digital Twin Society”-initiative works on Austrian digital health ecosystem
Digital Health EN, Event report ENThe two Praevenire Digital Health Workshops 2019 and 2020 as well as the Digital Health Symposium 2021 in Stift Seitensteten (A) have resulted…
How augmented intelligence benefits the health sector – Praevenire Digital Health Workshop, Part 2
Digital Health EN, Event report ENThe second part of the symposium at the Praevenire Health Days in Seitenstetten Abbey was about augmented intelligence as an essential element…
Praevenire Digital Health Symposion 2021 – Part 1
Digital Health EN, Event report ENAt the Praevenire Health Days at the Seitenstetten Monastery, more than 40 experts spent a day engaged in discussions about the digitalisation…
Why Vienna has become an Incubator for High-Tech-Start-Ups
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENResearch often leads to solutions for practice. The University of Vienna is following a successful path to implement academic results in an entrepreneurial…
Bottom-up or transversal or different? – Three approaches to digital transformation
Column EN, Transdisciplinary ENAgain and again one hears that it is now finally time to dispose of digitalisation as a cross-sectoral, transversal issue. We have to develop…
Digital and democratic – Why the modern world of work must be both
Interview EN, New Work ENThe digital and sustainable transformation will fundamentally change work. To prevent social inequality from growing in the process, Prof. Dr…
Connecta 2021 focuses on new digital formats
Event report EN, Transdisciplinary ENEvery year, Swiss Post's Connecta digital conference brings together experts in the field of digitalisation to exchange experiences and transfer…
Call for Paper: Critical contributions for the Swiss E-ID
Call for Papers EN, Digital Government ENThe electorate rejected the E-ID bill with private providers in March. Nevertheless, it was and is clear that the Swiss E-ID is needed. It should…
How chatbots promote sustainable behaviour in the workplace
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living EN, Sustainability ENChatbots are a promising technology to playfully promote climate-friendly behaviour of employees at the workplace. This is shown by a first field…
How job seekers react to AI in the application process
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENMore and more HR departments are using artificial intelligence (AI) to screen the applications they receive. While the advantages for companies…
How digitalisation becomes a booster for renewable energy
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution EN, Sustainability ENDigitalisation is one of the biggest drivers of the global transition to renewable energy. Internet of Things IoT, Artificial Intelligence AI,…
Autonomous driving: Between attention and distraction
Professional Contribution EN, Smart Mobility ENThe automotive industry is changing rapidly. The first semi-autonomous cars bring many advantages in terms of safety, congestion reduction and…
“We are doing a lot to attract more women”
Interview EN, New Work ENWhat are the reasons for the shortage of skilled professionals in the Swiss ICT sector? An interview with Daniela Burkhard, Head of Human Resource…
Future thinking is an important tool for leaders
Digital Business & Finance EN, Interview EN"It is a utopia that sticking to what exists provides security. On the contrary. Consciously implementing and leading the process of proactively…
A communicative Experiment on Digital Democracy
Digital Government EN, Event report ENTA-SWISS , the Foundation for Technology Assessment, has entered into a communicative experiment: it is seeking public discussion space before…
The digital wallet is coming
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution EN"Who invented it?" is a popular Swiss saying. In the case of the eID, the question must be: Who threw it away? The EU is implementing a new eID…
Using data mining to track critical dietary patterns and lifestyle diseases
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENMany chronic diseases are diet-related. A team at BFH Wirtschaft is pursuing a novel approach with multidisciplinary research: the scientists,…
Public Security Test of the Covid Certificate: BFH assists with security
Digital Government EN, Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENThe first Covid certificates have been issued in the cantons since 7 June 2021. At the end of June, the system is to be introduced throughout…
Digital neurosis: How our attention is attacked
Column EN, Transdisciplinary ENWhile I was trying to write a post on artificial intelligence, I was briefly distracted by an article on anxiety disorders. What people with…
When Mehmet and Peter are not the same – bias based on the origin of names in word vectors
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENPre-trained language models such as word vectors can contain social stereotypes, which can lead to software making discriminatory decisions.…
Allocating Vaccination Appointments: Why we should (and could) do better than digital Hunger Games
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENIt is often said that the measure of society is how it treats its weakest members. We know that "first come first serve" or "Es hät solang es…
Health care: Digital and individualised in the future
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENHealth care close to home has been a political goal for a long time. It is time to put the patient at the centre of the geography of care rather…
Tools for digital building
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENBIM will become mandatory in 2021, at least in government real estate projects. But where do companies start to successfully integrate the digital…
How an app evaluates the climate data of different land areas
Event Report EN, Transdisciplinary ENAt the Climate Hackathon, researchers and developers worked on solutions for reducing and assessing carbon footprints by remotely classifying…
How the industry benefits from machine learning
Augmented Intelligence EN, Event report ENThat machine learning is shaking up the industry is nothing new. But how mature is this technology for widespread use? And at what point are…
Digital Health – from the visionary to the practical
Digital Health EN, Event report ENOn 17 May, the association Praevenire held its Digital Health Workshop for the third time as a participatory event - with over 40 experts and…
The narratives of the IT industry
Column EN, Transdisciplinary ENNarratives shape the digital transformation of society much more than we think. We don't like to admit this because we love the illusion of rational…
The furniture industry has long been digital
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENChange is slow in countless business sectors, but in the furniture industry of all places the digital revolution is in full swing: equipped with…
Steadily growing community for “inCLOUsiv”
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENDigital exchange about mental health has been possible in Switzerland for the first time in a year with "inCLOUsiv". Together with the Pro Mente…
Is Augmented Intelligence the AI of the future?
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENIn the past, artificial intelligence (AI) was often portrayed as one that could one day replace humans. Today, it is assumed that this will not…
What is the state of digitalisation in your company?
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENIs it possible to measure digital fitness? The Bern University of Applied Sciences of Economics has developed a questionnaire for SMEs. Using…
How a 2020 parameter turned our world upside down
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENA significant part of the COVID pandemic story is driven by one parameter in an epidemiological model. How can a single number dominate our lives…
Innovation in the public sector? Only with cultural change!
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENFor digital transformation to gather pace in the public sector, a cultural shift is needed. The most important thing is to introduce a culture…
The underestimated automation
Top Topic EN, Transdisciplinary ENAutomation supposedly has two very different meanings: On the one hand, we use it to describe the taking over of human tasks by machines (= automata)…
Do we need to regulate mathematics?
Machine Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENThe logical world of mathematics eludes political thinking. Nevertheless, we must not regard mathematics as a black box when regulating digital…
Dangerous mathematics or dangerous humans? – Opportunities and risks of an algorithmised world
Event report EN, Machine Intelligence ENThe topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has potential for discussion. On 23 March 2021, experts from the BFH Centre Digital Society discussed…
The Importance of a Good Fit Between eID Systems and Country Context
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENA comparison of the eID systems in France, Belgium, Poland and Estonia shows the importance of country-specific path dependences and a good fit…
The role of the E-ID for digital government
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENIn the strategic visions of the future for the transformation of the administration, digital infrastructures play a central role. A widely used…
Digital solutions for social work
Event report EN, New Work ENIn December 2020, Bern University of Applied Sciences hosted Hack4SocialGood, bringing together the social sector and tech sector. The event…
The unspoken about the E-ID debacle
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENAfter the resounding rejection at the ballot box, people are already thinking about the next E-ID law without any deeper understanding. It would…
A brief history of E-IDs
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENE-ID concepts were neither a matter of course nor did they fall from the sky. They are the result of years of discussion, research, piloting…
Is the E-ID now the “digital passport”? – A clarification
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENA heated discussion arose around the question of what an E-ID is. It cannot be answered in one sentence. For there are legal as well as practical…
Handling personal data according to the BGEID – Part 2
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENOn 7 March 2021, a vote will be held on the BGEID, i.e. the Federal Act on Electronic Identification Services. In Part 1, an overview of data…
Handling personal data according to the BGEID – Part 1
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENOn 7 March 2021, the BGEID, i.e. the Federal Act on Electronic Identification Services, will be voted on. In this two-part article, an overview…
Measuring digital fitness – a test for SMEs
Digital Business & Finance EN, Professional Contribution ENThere are various interpretative frameworks, maturity models and awards for the digital transformation of companies. But in practice, there is…
E-ID connection from the point of view of a company
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENIf a web application wants to use the E-ID (according to the law), it has to overcome some challenges. This compilation is intended to help clarify…
About privacy at login
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENEveryone knows that with a social login, e.g. with Google or Facebook, user data is collected and the profiles formed from this data have a lot…
With the planned E-ID to the Covid 19 vaccination? A thought experiment
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENWould the planned state E-ID be applicable for registration for Covid 19 vaccinations? Could the extensive and time-consuming registration in…
“With the E-ID law, Switzerland is taking a pioneering role”
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Interview ENFor Nicolas Bürer, Managing Director of digitalswitzerland, the Swiss e-ID is indispensable. In an interview with Prof. Dr. Reinhard Riedl,…
“How can the state ensure cyber security?”
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Interview ENWhy the state's lack of digital competence can lead to a loss of control and why Min Li Martithinks the Schaffhausen E-ID is good is explained…
“Man is an analogue being” – Interview with Moritz Leuenberger on digitalisation, stupidity and democracy (2)
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENPart 2 of the interview with former Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger is about the advantage of natural stupidity over artificial intelligence,…
Lessons from Covid-19 – Paradigm shift through distance testing (4)
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENCompletely secure online exams are neither possible nor necessary. In many cases they do not even make sense. Instead, the current situation…
“Man is an analogue being” – Moritz Leuenberger on digitalisation, stupidity and democracy (1)
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENFormer Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger talks about the opportunities of digital transparency, the strengths of slow legislation, the advantage…
Two Key Learnings from the Health Crisis
Digital Health EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENCovid-19 is strongly entangled with digital transformation, both in positive and negative ways. On the one hand, Covid-19 has boosted online…
Digital personalisation – future opportunity or dead end (2)
Column EN, Top Topic EN, Transdisciplinary ENPart 1 of this column highlighted that digital personalisation optimises conditional expectation values to offer tailored products and services…
Taking back control of our data: Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time (Part 2)
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENA recurring theme in the above centralization races is the lack of choice: a choice of browser and operating system, of entry point to the Web,…
Call for Contributions: To e-ID or not to e-ID?
Call for Papers ENOn 7 March, there will be a referendum in Switzerland on the "E-ID Law", against which a referendum has been filed (see also "NO to the E-ID…
Power to the people: Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
Digital Government ENOriginally designed as a decentralised ecosystem, the Web has undergone a significant centralization in recent years. In order to regain control…
What barriers there are for blind people on the net
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENFor blind people, the internet is often difficult to access. They are dependent on barrier-free websites or on appropriate software. Daniele…
Digital personalisation: future opportunity or dead end (1)
Column EN, Top Topic EN, Transdisciplinary ENIn many areas, personalisation represents great progress, economically and socially. It has complex causes and is, among other things, a result…
New standard makes it easier to avoid barriers on the internet
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENDigitisation could help people with a disability gain more autonomy. However, many e-services are not yet barrier-free. In order to change this,…
Work magic successfully with AI in the company
Machine Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENYou don't even have to know how to program to play an active role in Artificial Intelligence in the enterprise. It's time for the "business"…
Lessons from the COVID19 crisis: How the courtroom became (not) virtual (2)
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe judiciary has successfully mastered the COVID lockdown and has entered a "permanent crisis mode". What has the COVID-19 pandemic changed…
A virtual space for Public Administrators and Citizens around Open Data, Information and Knowledge (O-KID)
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENOpen Data (OD) are valuable initiatives in favour of transparency. Open Governments and public administrations aim at increasing the availability…
Leonce and Leonce – a streaming review
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENTheatre is experimenting - finally - with hybrid forms of performance that can be viewed on site by a few and on the internet by many. Multimedia…
An agile mindset is the key to digitalisation
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENIt is clear to most companies that digitisation is not just about technology. But learning agility is particularly difficult for those companies…
Business Transformation in the Covid 19 Crisis (4) – Trade Collapse and the Next Globalisation
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe health crisis will push those technologies that promote the fragmentation of value chains. This will change the economy for good What are…
Teaching from Covid-19 – How Distance Teaching comes alive (3)
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENOnline lectures pose major challenges for students and lecturers alike. We need to rethink and make more use of contemporary didactic tools.…
“Do you think your job could be taken over by a robot?”
Event report EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Machine Intelligence EN"Aimeriez-vous qu'un robot prenne soin de vous?" - with questions like this, the Neues Museum Biel invites you to two current exhibitions: Hello,…
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis: How the courtroom went virtual (1)
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe judicial authorities are not known as particularly innovative or digital. However, the contact restrictions of the pandemic have now given…
Digital conference on the transformative power of data – that was Transform 2020
Digital Government EN, Event report EN"Trust is the key between authorities among each other vertically and horizontally, but also among citizens* and business towards authorities",…
Lessons from Covid-19 – making art digitally accessible (3)
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENBased on the experiences of the first lockdown, the subsequent (partial) reopening and the last days in the near-lockdown, clear recommendations…
In Good Data We Trust – Liveblog from Transform 2020
Digital Government EN, Event report ENAt TRANSFORM 2020, we will focus on the transformative power of good data in the public sector. The event is co-organised by the Institute Public…
Which deficiencies conference software has and which technical changes the internet needs
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENIn the worldwide pandemic, the virtual world often replaces communication in real life. This makes questions in the area of software, internet…
Teaching from Covid-19 – How universities can teach digitally (2)
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENSo far, the potential of existing platforms for online teaching has only been used to a small extent. In the following, three scenarios will…
Hackathon for inclusive digitalisation in the social sector
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary EN
How do social organisations keep pace with digitalisation? The Bern University of Applied Sciences is focusing on new forms of work and cooperation…
Lessons from Covid-19 – How theatre reaches its audience digitally (2)
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe digitisation of theatre first failed over 20 years ago. Now it's time to break new digital ground, in all the arts. We have the economic…
Looking back at Connecta 2020 – what will the future be like?
Event report EN, Transdisciplinary ENDue to the pandemic, Swiss Post's "Connecta" digital conference was held as a purely digital event this year. But even in its new format, it…
Lessons from Covid-19 – the digital arts (1)
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENCovid-19 has hit the performing arts particularly hard. While there have been many notable digital initiatives that point a way forward, on balance…
How professional men’s football is going digital
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENBig data has long since found its way into match analysis in football. In their master's thesis, two students at BFH Wirtschaft investigated…
The Asymmetric Effects Of COVID-19 on the Labor Market Performance of Mothers and Fathers
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution, Professional Contribution ENCOVID-19 confinement measures imposed a tremendous burden on families with young children: schooling and childcare had to be provided in the…
Lessons from Covid-19 – Digital Universities (1)
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENThe lockdown has changed higher education - probably permanently. Much will have to be redesigned in the coming years, but for now the challenges…
“We bear responsibility for our technologies” – Digitisation from the perspective of the philosopher of technology
Augmented Intelligence EN, Interview ENIs digitalisation accessible to everyone, can we trust new technologies and who ultimately takes responsibility for their actions? Janina Loh,…
Music goes digital in the Age of Social Distancing
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe COVID-19 has changed the way we work and the way we entertain ourselves. It has forced us to remain locked up in our houses, observing and…
“Lost in Transition” – a reflection on Digital Governance post-Covid
Digital Government EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENThe Corona crisis has greatly changed our needs in many areas. The pressure to change has increased rapidly - also for a digital and agile administration.…
Digital fitness can be measured: How digital are Bernese SMEs?
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENDigitalisation projects are innovations that are successful when scarce resources can be saved with technology and data. The example of EWB shows…
Transformation of companies in the Covid 19 crisis (3) – Concrete recommendations
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe health crisis has accelerated the digital transformation. We are facing a major transformation of the economy. It is now important for companies…
The Discretisation of Politics (Part 2)
Column EN, Transdisciplinary ENDoes the binary representation of digital data with zeros and ones lead to less compromise and more black-or-white politics? In Part1, I described…
Digital sport in the Covid 19 crisis (3) – Visionary action is needed now!
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENFinancial support for clubs and safety concepts for spectators are necessary, but not sufficient to help sport through the crisis. It also needs…
Accessible digital? – Still not for everyone in 2020
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe digital world is open to all, because almost everyone has Internet today - or so the popular opinion goes. But far from it - people with…
Digital Health in the Covid-19 crisis (3) – what should now be improved
Digital Health EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENDuring the lockdown, many countries had positive experiences with digital health (Atique et al., 2020). We should definitely continue the development…
Business Transformation in the Covid 19 Crisis (2): How to Change
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENCompanies can use the health crisis to optimise their business models. But they can also develop new business models that address newly emerging…
Corporate transformation in the Covid 19 crisis (1): What happens when you don’t change
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe problem with digital transformation is transformation. The current health crisis brings this home to us in a frighteningly unmistakable way.…
Social stereotypes in pre-trained language models
Augmented Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENWhen algorithms make decisions, they often discriminate because of programmed preferences. Author Mascha Kurpicz-Briki investigated what happens…
How an app helps to green facades
Interview EN, Smart City & Living ENThe app "towards green cities" shows how urban facades can be transformed into vertical gardens. Thanks to augmented reality, planners and citizens…
Digital Sport in the Covid 19 Crisis (2): Transferring the Emotions to Digital
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe sports industry has been hit hard by the health crisis. How it can find its way out of the crisis and continue to rely on the emotional relationship…
BIMwood and DeepWood in timber construction – 2 pioneering projects at BFH and HSLU
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENEven technical colleges are not immune to garden-variety thinking. After all, each one wants to be the best. However, the Action Plan Digital…
Digital Sport in the Covid 19 Crisis (1) – Different Approaches to Crisis Management
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENSport can only develop economic and social charisma if it brings people together and moves them emotionally. That's exactly where Covid-19 hit…
Consumer behaviour in the digital age – a BFH-W study with 100 Citizen Scientists
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENEven for an online purchase, consumers need the personal exchange with family and friends to decide on a product. Researchers at the BFH Wirtschaft…
The workshop of the future
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENSmall and medium-sized enterprises have done a lot in terms of digitalisation in recent years. Most of the efforts are evolutionary in the direction…
Digital Health in the Covid 19 Crisis (2) – It’s up to us what we make of the crisis
Digital Health EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENDigital health is associated with many challenges that are not easy to overcome. We have to learn how to deal with them. A good example of the…
Discretisation of politics (Part 1)
Column ENA few days ago, I was surprised by the thesis that digitalisation is changing politics by making compromise more difficult. What may seem obvious…
Digital Health in the Covid 19 Crisis (1) – There is no going back to the pre-crisis era
Digital Health EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENThe pandemic has hit us much more seriously than we would like to admit. It is high time to look reality in the eye, anticipate likely developments…
Density stress of a different kind
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENWhere can older people in Switzerland find suitable surroundings? The research project "Urban Landscape 66+" of the competence area Dencity of…
Parliaments in crisis mode (Part 3) – What do we learn from the Covid 19 crisis?
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENParliaments are important institutions, especially in times of crisis, and the fulfilment of their functions is central to the control of the…
Digital Mindset thanks to Lockdown
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe managers of the Strassverkehramt Bern had already completed the first half of a multi-part training in Positive Leadership when the lockdown…
“Our entire world will be driven by AI in 2050” – an interview with Marcel Salathé
Interview EN, Machine Intelligence ENImage recognition, language understanding, and decision-making: deep learning has made impressive breakthroughs. That’s why machine learning…
Parliaments in crisis mode (2) – Old wine in new bottles?
Digital Government EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENWhen the Covid 19 crisis came, all at once even parliaments that had worked through the Second World War in the hail of bombs no longer seemed…
Breathing energy supply for the energy transition
Professional Contribution EN, Smart City & Living ENIn tomorrow's electricity market, the consumption, production and storage of energy must be permanently coordinated. The "breathing" energy supply…
July-August issue: What the living spaces of our future will look like
Smart City & Living ENDigitalisation is not only changing the way we communicate and live, but also the way we live and work. The changes are very evident in the construction…
Health 2030 – Implementing Digital Health the Right Way
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENHow do we have to redesign health care so that people have more healthy years of life? Together with several hundred experts, the Austrian association…
Can digital technology help manage acute psychiatric crises?
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENUse of technology for crisis management in acute psychiatric care - fewer coercive measures and faster recovery. What sounds theoretically tempting…
Parliaments in crisis mode (1) – variable experience with great learning potential
Digital Government EN, Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution ENThe Covid 19 crisis obviously caught parliaments unprepared, whether at the municipal, cantonal or federal level. Contingency plans were for…
Study anatomy with virtual reality
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe Bern Education Centre for Nursing has been conducting interprofessional learning events for some time. An existing offer provides medical…
PARO – a robot for emotional moments
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe PARO robot was originally designed for the geriatric setting. Increasingly, PARO is also being used in child and adolescent psychiatry. However,…
The SwissCovid app – many strengths, some weaknesses
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENFrom 25 June, Swiss citizens will be able to use the SwissCovid app, which complements classic contact tracing in the containment of coronavirus.…
Digital schools during the Covid19 crisis (3) – Concrete recommendations
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe health crisis has caused a lot of damage. This makes it all the more important to use the positive experience that has also been made to…
Sustainable digitalisation – new roles for health professionals
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENDigitalisation in the health sector is advancing. The early involvement and sustainable support of healthcare professionals are fundamental in…
Common sense and empathy – also needed in the age of digital health?
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENEverybody needs that human touch. Even more so in the age of digital health. So. That was the given question and my headline in February 2020.…
Digital school during the Covid19 crisis (2) – Basic considerations
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENAs already outlined in Part 1 of the article , the performance of teachers was very heterogeneous and perceptions of the school situation during…
Simulation-based strategy development to relieve the burden on Swiss emergency services
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENSwiss emergency care has been in the spotlight not only since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic. Emergency departments throughout the country…
Digital school during the Covid19 crisis (1) – A situation analysis
Lessons from the Covid19 crisis, Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe health crisis has shown us how important teachers are. After decades of a steady decline in the reputation of teachers, we have had their…
June issue: “Digital health – moribund or healthy?!”
Digital Health ENLet's keep it short: The pandemic has "shaken up" our everyday life and our world of thought. But not only that, it seems it has given digitalisation…
“MeteoAlpen” – A Citizen Science Project for the Verification of Weather Models
Digital Government EN, Transdisciplinary ENWalking, hiking, touring, mountaineering or one of the countless other activities lure us into nature and the mountains. As a place for sporting…
Disruption is (not) a fairy tale
Column ENIf we look at the digital transformation from the perspective of individual sectors or specific disciplines, we find: In most cases, changes…
Extending the lifetime of mobile devices to reduce their environmental impact: a glimpse on the project LIFESAVING
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENMobile Internet-enabled devices (MIEDs) such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets have become a crucial part of our lives. However, the environmental…
What can we learn from Covid19?
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe public sector faces formidable challenges. These have become more prominent as a result of the Corona pandemic. Now we must also use the…
Sufficiency: the missing ingredient for sustainable digitalisation
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENDigitalisation is often depicted as a silver bullet to address sustainability issues, due to its potential to decarbonise the global economy…
Sustainability in the digital space
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENSustainability, already a multi-layered topic in itself, becomes a multi-dimensional consideration of IT against the backdrop of the digital…
Sufficiency – An approach towards a sustainable (digital) future
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENIn environmental research, sufficiency is seen as a major pillar of sustainability. However, up to this day, sufficiency has been widely absent…
Raise awareness of the environmental consequences of the use of connected screens
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENNew media uses have a big impact on the consumption of energy resources. Two-thirds of the world's electricity is generated by burning fossil…
Using instead of owning – how sharing pays off for the environment
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENIn Western consumer society, the importance of sharing has steadily declined since the second half of the 20th century. With the start of mass…
Getting girls excited about coding through play
Column ENThe figures change from year to year - but the proportion of women in IT remains in the basement every year. And the proportion in IT education…
Switching Digital in Teaching: A Short Experience Report from a 1-Day Online Teaching Event
Event report EN, Transdisciplinary ENSwitching teaching to digital can be quite easy and still provide an excellent learning opportunity for the students: To let our students in…
Digitization and the Environment: Opportunities, Risks and the Need for Action
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThanks to the radically changed living and working conditions in times of COVID-19 (Corona virus disease 2019), many people have become acutely…
Man and technology
Column ENThe special nature of the relationship between people and technology shapes the digital transformation. It plays out not only on an individual…
April-May: Special Issue “Shaping a Sustainable Digital World”
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe digital transformation our society is currently undergoing affects many areas of public and private life. Technological progress has great…
CodeVsCovid19 hackathon: An app for herd protection
Big und Open Data EN, Event report ENThe virtual CodeVsCOVID19 hackathon took place last week. Nicolai Wenger was among the 3000 participants. He is a researcher at the Institute…
Covid19 Hackathon: Programming new applications from data
Big und Open Data EN, Event report ENSince the beginning of March, the Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich and its specialist and coordination unit OGD (Open Government Data)…
Password-free login procedures as a key player in digital transformation
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENPSD2 and Open Banking open up new possibilities in the digital transformation of banking. A promising approach here is FIDO, which offers strong…
Call for Papers: “Shaping a sustainable digital world”
Call for Papers ENOur society is currently undergoing a digital transformation that affects many areas of public and private life. Technological progress has great…
Referendum against the E-ID law
Cybersecurity and IT forensics EN, Professional Contribution ENThere is a need for usable and trustworthy electronic identification. It is a pillar of digital democracy and will also be used for the exercise…
The Swiss eHealth Forum 2020: The digitisation of healthcare from EPD to HIS
Digital Health EN, Event report ENWe report today in our liveblog from the 1st day of the Swiss eHealth Forum 2020.
The Swiss eGovernment Forum 2020: What it takes for the digital transformation of the administration
E-Government EN, Event report ENWe will be reporting from Day 2 of the Swiss eGovernment Forum 2020 in our liveblog on 4 March.
Digitisation Monitor 2019 – How policy-makers position themselves on digitisation
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENDigitalisation is a major challenge for politics: Citizens, but also the economy and science expect forward-looking decisions in this regard.…
The big political gap between the past and the present
Column ENThere is considerable evidence that in the future platforms will act as global markets and thereby control the behavior of both suppliers and…
The Swiss electronic identity
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENSwitzerland is a federation of the Confederation, cantons and municipalities. Federated systems correspond to the character of Switzerland. The…
What if the AHV number became an email address?
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENDigital identity is particularly important in official communication with authorities. Our guest author and President of the Conference of Cantonal…
Self-Sovereign Identities – Will we control our identity ourselves in the future?
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENIn the real world we can identify ourselves easily and securely, but in the virtual world we still cannot. For digital identification, there…
Secure identities are needed for the trust of customers
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENIsolated, centralised or decentralised - here, two researchers from BFH Technik und Informatik compare the advantages and disadvantages of the…
Applying ICT knowledge to ICT business
Column EN, Transdisciplinary ENSoftware engineering practices have changed the way we look at organizations. It has become widely accepted that agile practices improve the…
Call for Paper: Digital Health – moribund or healthy?!
Digital Health ENThe April 2020 issue on the topic of healthcare and eHealth will focus on the topic of digital health - moribund or healthy?! We invite you to…
February issue: About digital identities
Identität und PrivatsphäreIt has become a matter of course in our daily lives to chat, make phone calls, shop, watch videos and listen to music via smartphone. Use is…
Unleashing Usability Superpowers to Make the World a Better Place
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENICT systems that suffer from minor, and sometimes major, usability problems are an all-too-common experience. This is hard to understand given…
The Federal Administration is aligning its human resources strategy with the digital transformation
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe Federal Administration's personnel strategy 2020-2023 is all about digitalisation. With the two focal points of "shaping digital transformation"…
New game, new culture, new IT!
Column ENThe digital transformation relies on new digital tools and their networking. This creates new scope for action, which must also be used by economic…
“The public sector needs more dialogue and less garden-variety thinking”
E-Government EN, Interview ENIn order for the public sector in Switzerland to really take off digitally, there needs to be a cultural change in which all those involved have…
About the use of spanners – Part II
Column ENNobody is afraid of the growing loss of self-evident facts in our increasingly complex society. Hardly anyone is bothered by the fact that established…
“We don’t just need a technology debate, but above all a socio-political debate”
E-Government EN, Interview ENThe political structures in Switzerland can have a blocking effect on the topic of eGovernment. In an interview with Benedikt Würth, Finance…
EasyGov.swiss: eGovernment according to the needs of businesses
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENTwo years ago, the then Minister of Economic Affairs, Johann Schneider-Ammann, announced the new online platform of the authorities: "The EasyGov.swiss…
January issue: Digital Administration Switzerland – from integration to transformation
E-Government ENThere is a consensus that we are doing well in Switzerland - our health system, security as well as education, to name just a few examples, are…
On the (in)objective use of spanners
Column ENMany people are appalled that in the future many jobs will be done with spanners. Some find the use of spanners highly ridiculous. Some expect…
About the future of the Internet
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENResearchers have been working on improvements since the Internet was established. The future architecture SCION is also constantly being improved,…
Machine-Learning Methods for Analysis and Generation of Expressive Performance
Machine Intelligence EN, Professional Contribution ENArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are some of the leading technology trends in the global scene, due to the easy access to big data…
December Issue: Cybersecurity – exemplum docet, exempla obscurant
Digital Identity, Privacy & Cybersecurity EN, Professional Contribution ENWe are living in times of disagreement. Silicon Valley has turned rule braking into everybody’s practice. “We have to move fast, we have…
What digital skills we need now – all presentations from the Transform conference
Digital Government EN, Event report ENAdd lead Add text
Data, data, nothing but data. What do we do with it?
Big und Open Data EN, Transdisciplinary ENAccording to an IDC study, the total amount of data generated annually worldwide will increase from 33 zettabytes to 175 zettabytes in 2025.…
Digital natives – the end of project management?
Design for Future System Fitness EN, Professional Contribution ENProjects often take longer, they are too expensive or do not offer the promised quality. Young managers in particular, the so-called digital…
About the good life and the happy life
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENDigitalisation makes a lot of things easier in our lives. But what really makes us happy in the digital age is not something digital, says happiness…
How to design a collaboration network for public value creation
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENCo-production, co-creation, participation, user involvement: these are buzzwords often used when talking about public sector transformation.…
Of digital natives and data-based services – BFH researchers at Connecta 2019
Event report EN, Transdisciplinary EN Swiss Post's Connecta digital conference was a success on Tuesday with over 300 participants and more than 90 speakers from 12 countries. Everyyear,Connecta…
Hackathons as a hot spot for digital skills
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENWhen mixed teams tinker for hours or days until they programme new applications from data, then it is most likely a hackathon. This non-hierarchical…
Can computers make art?
Column ENIs AI as great as the glossy brochures promise? Or is it only the bosses of the computer programmers who want art, and the result is only art…
Japan: Ageing society needs technology and community development
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe ageing of society is more advanced in Japan than in Switzerland. Japan has been under corresponding pressure to innovate for some time. A…
Does digitalisation make us happier?
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENDigitalisation makes many things easier for us in our professional and private lives. Communication is possible in a variety of ways so that…
October-November issue: Digitalisation – Vision of fair participation for all
Transdisciplinary ENIn 2011, the US social theorist and economist Jeremy Rifkin drew a positive vision of a "collaborative age" in his book "The Third Industrial…
How traffic measurements enable smart street lighting
Buildings and Cities, Interview ENOnly as much light as is really needed - intelligent lighting in public spaces is now one of the characteristics of a smart city. Such applications…
Linked Open Data for Smart Cities? New developments from the research perspective
Big und Open Data EN, Buildings and Cities, Professional Contribution ENAlmost all cities that call themselves a smart city or want to become one also have a strategy on Open Data and often publish relevant data on…
Digitalization – a great opportunity for women
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENCompanies need skilled workers for digital transformation and women are especially in demand. However, to date too few girls and young women…
How Lenzburg is becoming a smart city
Buildings and Cities, Professional Contribution ENThe city of Lenzburg is solving more and more offers in a digital way. On the topic of Smart City, the city is launching a specialist series…
Digitalisation promotes interdisciplinarity
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENMany problems of the digital age cannot be solved in one discipline alone, says Prof. Dr. Gerd Folkers in an interview. On the second day of…
Liveblog von TRANSFORM – Digital Skills for the Transformation of Disciplines, Business and Government
Event report EN, Transdisciplinary ENWhich digital skills are necessary for the transformation of professional professions and companies? The TRANSFORM conference is a 2-day event…
September issue: An ecosystem is essential for the establishment of smart cities
Buildings and CitiesA few years ago, the MIT scientist Otto Scharmer coined the expression or rather the demand"from ego-system to eco-system". He was referring…
Companies must also protect robots from cyberattacks
Cybersecurity and IT forensics EN, Professional Contribution ENRobots are the interface through which IT systems have a very concrete impact on the real world. Until now, dangers to humans and the environment…
How women are discriminated against in the labour market
Event report EN, Transdisciplinary ENThere is no gender discrimination (yet) in the search for an apprenticeship - but there is a lot of it on the labour market: At the conference…
Digitaltag 2019: BFH Wirtschaft is there with Smartvote and a data experiment
Big und Open Data EN, Event report ENThe third edition of the nationwide Digitaltag is also taking place in the federal city for the first time - and the Bern University of Applied…
How a virtual platform promotes mental health – a project of BFH Gesundheit and Pro Mente Sana
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENWhat expectations do people with mental illness, relatives and health professionals have of a digital platform to promote mental health? A project…
Basic registers and standards data as precursors for Linked Data
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution ENBase registers are central components of a Linked Data ecosystem. Together with commonly used data models or ontologies, they ensure that data…
Building a Linked Open Data Ecosystem for the Performing Arts
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution ENOver the past six months, the BFH Institute for Public Sector Transformation has had the pleasure to accompany the Canadian Arts Presenting Association's…
Algorithms also discriminate – as their programmers tell them to do
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution ENCompanies are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to make decisions or to make decisions based on their suggestions. These suggestions…
How IT in pharmacogenetics helps to increase drug safety
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe European Commission estimates that 197,000 patients die each year from adverse drug reactions. This is partly due to differences in genetic…
How service providers are integrated into the electronic patient dossier
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENThe complexity of connecting a service provider to the electronic patient dossier varies depending on the level of integration. An overview of…
August issue: Technology use in health care – the “missing link”
Digital Health ENThe voices are numerous and loud when it comes to the opportunities of technologisation in health care. This has been the case for many years.…
The Internet in institutions for the elderly
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENInternet use is ubiquitous, yet it has been little researched in residential aged care. This article discusses the results of two survey studies…
Fertility Discrimination In Hiring: A Field Experiment
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENPart-time jobs are thought to reconcile work and family obligations. However, women with a higher probability of becoming pregnant soon have…
Turning Big useless Data into useful Big Data
Digital Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe S3Model approach can help organizations transform large amounts of disparate, unconnected data into meaningful data. This will save time…
Why interdisciplinarity is the basis for Computional Thinking
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe only living creature that can think is man. But soon computers will do the thinking for us - or will they? Alexander Repenning, professor…
How to estimate completeness of classes in Wikidata
Articles in English EN, Professional ContributionThe way in which general encyclopaedic knowledge is collected, curated and used has changed dramatically. Anyone in the world can edit Wikipedia…
An international Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions (Part 2*)
Articles in English EN, Professional ContributionHeritage institutions are places in which works of art, historical records, and other objects of cultural or scientific interest are sheltered…
An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions (Part 1*)
Articles in English EN, Professional ContributionHeritage institutions are places in which works of art, historical records, and other objects of cultural or scientific interest are sheltered…
The central role of base registers and standards data in breaking data silos
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution ENBase registers or standards data are central components of a Linked Data ecosystem. Together with jointly used data models or ontologies, they…
How art institutions can manage their metadata
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution ENVirtual assistants need descriptive metadata to work correctly. But many art organizations are poorly positioned with it. To close this gap,…
Switzerland needs a constructive data policy
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution ENThe vision has been clear for some time: we want a cooperative, participatory and open use of the data that is accumulating in ever greater quantities…
June-July: Special Issue focused on Missing Links
Big und Open Data ENToday, Open Data is an imperative. Government data, research data, and data from various other fields must be freely accessible and reusable…
How companies handle electronic business processes securely
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENThe expansion of the Swissdec information platform places new security requirements on the identification and authentication of participating…
Digitisation in insurance companies – individually or together?
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENIn the private client business, insurance companies rely on individual solutions that are widely accepted. The situation is more difficult with…
Payroll reporting – many roads lead to Rome
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENThe collection and processing of salary notifications is one of the core tasks of the compensation offices. As many channels as possible are…
“Come talk to me” – When Art meets Digitalisation
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENThe Mayor of Bern as a hologram? In addition to Alec von Graffenried, around 70 people participated in the participatory video installation "Come,…
Sedex – the digital postman of the Confederation
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENWith sedex, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) and the Federal Office of Information Technology (FOITT) offer a secure data exchange for authorities…
Insurance companies rely on M2M communication
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENSuva has been using the Swiss wage standard (ELM) for many years to process wage declarations from companies. Now, in addition to the Swiss wage…
How digitalisation is changing the buying process
Interview EN, Transdisciplinary ENThanks to the internet, consumers can now find out about products more easily and buy online as well as in traditional shops. An SNSF-funded…
The social security data exchange ecosystem
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENThe eAHV/IV association defines interfaces and standards for data exchange and coordinates the digitisation projects for AHV and IV. The goal…
Swissdec – Pioneer in eGovernment Switzerland
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENWith the wage reporting procedure (ELM), the Swissdec association has created a Switzerland-wide standard that enables companies to report wage…
PRAEVENIRE workshop on the future of digital health
Digital Health EN, Event report ENThe kick-off of the 4th PRAEVENIRE Health Days was all about digitalisation. Health experts and decision-makers worked on the topic of digital…
Switzerland-wide holistic building directory
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENIn 2020, Switzerland will have an official directory of building addresses for the first time. Currently, market participants publish, use or…
Digitisation thanks to standards
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe degree of digitalisation of data and the flow of information between organisational units is increasing year by year. This is especially…
How wage and accident data is protected
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENThe Swissdec data exchange platform (distributor) transmits wage and accident information to many Swiss companies. The protection of this data…
How insurance companies and authorities communicate securely
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENThe Swissdec architecture sketches show how corporate processes communicate with insurers and authorities today. An attempt is made to explain…
Swissdec history or “From the cradle to the grave, nothing but forms, forms!”
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENDigitisation in the exchange of information in the public authority environment should above all save time and money. But it is not just about…
Liveblog from eGov Focus 1/19: Open digital city culture
Buildings and Cities, Event report ENCities are becoming digital. It is foreseeable that this development will permanently change cities. Open data, the internet of things, augmented…
May-June issue: How companies and authorities exchange data securely
Identität und PrivatsphäreMost businesses today are digitally managed. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are used to control entrepreneurial and operational processes.…
Konferenz: Healthcare of the Future – Bridging the Information Gap
Digital Health EN, Event report ENHow will eHealth, mobile health, self-monitoring and personalised medicine affect the future healthcare system? How can these technologies be…
Use of mobile identity solutions within the framework of electronic ID
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe need for a digital means of identification is growing. In Switzerland, electronic identity (eID) is regulated by the eID Act and provides,…
The Digitisation Monitor 2019
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENIn the run-up to the federal elections on 20 October 2019, the BFH is launching the "Digitisation Monitor 2019" in cooperation with the Universities…
Once Only in Europe – Can Switzerland be part of it?
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe principle of once-only (OOP) data collection from public authorities in Europe as part of the Tallinn Declaration is a key project for the…
Call for Papers: “Missing Links”
Call for Papers ENIn April 2019, the board of the Opendata.ch association has decided to create a Swiss Linked Data Working Group that is intended to reinforce…
The reconciliation of data reality and the real world – on the way to a data quality model
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENIt has become a truism that data is becoming more and more important and that handling it can lead to a real competitive advantage for companies…
The Education ID as the basis for the digital school
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENIf digital teaching aids are increasingly used in class, pupils and teachers need an electronic identity in order to be able to use applications…
April issue: e-government does its homework
Column EN, E-Government ENE-Government has set out to catch up on its homework. In this issue, you will learn, among other things, how chatbots can also be used in the…
What are the challenges of managing cyber-attacks in a large company?
Cybersecurity and IT forensics EN, Professional Contribution ENWith the ever-increasing risks of cyber-attacks, companies need to make cyber security a priority. Today, it is not a question of "if" a company…
Challenges in digital forensics on smartphones
Cybersecurity and IT forensics EN, Professional Contribution ENSmartphone forensics is a relatively new and rapidly developing area of interest within digital forensics. The market launch of "Simon", the…
eDiscovery – the search for relevant information for investigations
Cybersecurity and IT forensics EN, Professional Contribution ENEvery day, the amount of data in organisations grows and so do the opportunities to misuse it. With eDiscovery, data is located, secured and…
Vulnerabilities discovered in Swiss Post’s e-voting system
Cybersecurity and IT forensics EN, Professional Contribution ENThe public intrusion test of Swiss Post's e-voting system carried out in recent weeks has aroused a great deal of interest among experts and…
Contemporary Classical Music and the Digital Transformation of Society
Professional Contribution EN, Transdisciplinary ENContemporary classical music is a fascinating showcase for the impact of digital transformation. Apart from that, it helps us to direct our thoughts…
Smartcity – Hype or Reality?
Articles in English EN, Gebäude und StädteIn the last seven years the number of papers published on smart cities has grown exponentially. However, very few of these texts critically evaluate…
Data Governance as part of a new Swiss eGovernment Strategy?
Articles in English EN“Your data is only as good as what you do with it and how you manage it” [1]. This quote summarizes the problem that eGovernment Switzerland…
Call for Papers: Effects of digitalisation on business models in the digital city
Call for Papers ENIn June 2018, the issue entitled "Effects of digitalisation on business models in the digital city" will be published. We invite you to submit…
Conceptualizing a National Data Infrastructure for Switzerland
Articles in English ENAbstractA national data infrastructure (NDI) provides data, data-related services and guidelines for the
re-use of data to individuals and…
Call for Papers – Projektmanagement und Nachhaltigkeit: wie geht das?
Call for Papers EN, Design for Future System Fitness ENDie Ausgabe zum Themenschwerpunkt Design for Future System Fitness beschäftigt sich im Mai 2018 mit dem Thema Projektmanagement und Nachhaltigkeit:…
Februarausgabe: IAM is in town, and it is globally connected
Articles in English ENThe title is a fata morgana, of course. Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a very old topic in the context of e-services. Still it has not…
Technology Replaces Organizations
Articles in English EN, E-Government ENEveryone has heard about platform economy and its branch, sharing economy. But what does it imply for an existing company? How do blockchains…
Early Diagnosis linking Big Data – hope or nightmare? (L4)
Articles in English EN, Event Report ENBig Data and the number five.Big data has been seen during the last years as one of the most promising fields in health. By having access…
How a Smart Building Enables New Ways of Teaching and Learning: An Example from Tokyo
Articles in English EN, Gebäude und StädteCommonly smart buildings are mainly associated with using ICT in order to make a building more energy-efficient. But this is only one aspect…
Open Data as a first step towards building a national data infrastructure
Big und Open Data EN, Professional Contribution ENIn order for government data to develop its potential benefits for the economy and society, it must be made available comprehensively and systematically.…
Useful and secure digital identities for all areas of life and their properties
Identität und Privatsphäre, Professional Contribution ENDigital identities are with us every day. The technical possibilities are very diverse. How can digital identities enable secure identification…
ECH data standards support the cooperation of all stakeholders in eGovernment
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe subsidiarity principle applies to the Swiss public authority landscape. This leads to decentralised structures in very many areas. In contrast…
Of chameleons and lambs
Design for Future System Fitness EN, Professional Contribution ENStakeholders are stakeholders. Particularly important stakeholders sit on project committees. Their sometimes peculiar behaviour prompts a comparison…
Open Government Data for accessible applications using the example of an app for the blind
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENPublic authorities make data available for secondary use as public sector information, (accessible) apps can use these and thus create added…
Swiss Post brings its core business into the digital world
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution ENPeople entitled to vote cast their ballots online, courts and lawyers exchange case files electronically, and citizens have access to their patient…
Management tools for the federal state
Buildings and Cities, Professional Contribution ENOnly a few organisations systematically use today's possibilities of information and communication technologies (ICT) to support management processes.…
E-Government-Themen im BFH-Zentrum Digital Society
E-Government ENThe BFH Centre Digital Society is concerned with the question of how to create the greatest possible value through digitalisation. This is a…
Good practices and bad practices – not with us!
E-Government EN, Professional Contribution ENThe architect Christopher Alexander worked intensively on the question of how rooms, houses, districts and entire cities must be built so that…
Data as an innovation driver of the smart city
Buildings and Cities, Professional Contribution ENData has already been called the "oil of the 21st century". But data will also form the basis for many processes in the intelligent city of the…
Cybersecurity und IT-Forensik
Cybersecurity and IT forensics EN, Professional Contribution ENThe focus "Cyber Security & IT Forensics" deals with selected topics related to the security of the computer infrastructure, such as confidentiality,…
CfP: Value and Values in E-Government
Call for Papers ENSocietyByte is an online magazine for networking knowledge and know-how around the digital transformation of economy, state and society. In March…