Transdisciplinary

The successful development of digital solutions almost always requires the cooperation of different disciplines. Designers, software developers and application specialists are necessary.

In addition, ethnographers, economists, lawyers, mathematicians and others are often needed, whereby several expertises are usually required in each discipline. Good solution design requires, for example, knowledge of good practice examples, the ability to co-create with users, user experience and accessibility expertise, a talent for durable design, heuristics for dealing with complexity, writing usable requirements specifications and ethical reflection. At the BFH Centre Digital Society, we do not rely on interfaces between disciplines, but work together freely in a transdisciplinary way. The methods used result from the practical question.

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What values the Humane Digital Transformation needs

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BFH is committed to a responsible and people-centred digital transformation. What does that mean in concrete terms? In particular, what factors…

Making the world more sustainable with second-hand clothes

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Solving social problems that would otherwise fall through the cracks? More and more start-ups see this as an opportunity to implement their sustainable…

How Basel-Stadt wants to prevent over-indebtedness with a tool from the BFH

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Thanks to digitalisation, data from existing administrative registers can increasingly be used in a fruitful way to monitor social issues such…

Humane Digital Transformation: Towards a human-centered digitalization

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Digital technologies are changing the way we live and work with consequences that are difficult to assess. The Bern University of Applied Sciences…

How Swiss banks and insurance companies implement sustainable measures

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How can the finance and insurance industry also contribute to a more sustainable economy? This question is at the centre of current debates in…
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Diversity and precise blurring

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We 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?

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As alternative to Twitter, many users have recently been switching to a platform called Mastodon. Our author has investigated, why, at a technical…

What Citizen Scientists can do against visual hate

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Facebook 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…

Why platforms drive the circular economy

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The use of digital technologies (DT) to promote circular practices in all industrial sectors plays a key role in addressing the issues of sustainability,…

Towards deep learning-based weather reconstruction of the Great Frost

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In 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…

How can digital platforms enhance circular economy practices in value chain networks?

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The emergence of digital technologies (DTs) to promote circular practices across all industries plays a key role to tackle challenges we currently…
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Obituary: A great champion of Open Access is no more

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Daniel Hürlimann, Professor of Legal Informatics and IT Law at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) and Attorney at Law by Laux Lawyers…