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A stage for women in IT

In the scope of the IT Fire Initiative, SI publishes portraits of women in IT from June to December 2021. SI has been looking for female role models and found many women who have made their way into IT even if IT is still a men’s world. [...]

WebConferencing: Von «einfach loslegen» bis «systemisch angehen»

Web Conferencing kann ein Kernstück einer kollaborativen Lern- und Arbeitskultur sein. Es können sowohl tägliche Meetings und Workshops als auch BrownBag-Sessions, BarCamps, Konferenzen und Pressetermine durchgeführt werden. [...]

Facial Recognition: Statement of the SI Expert Group “Informatics & Society”

18/03/2021 0

As the SI’s specialist group “Informatics and Society“, we recommend banning facial recognition with the potential for mass surveillance in public spaces. Not only because of the known and in many places described shortcomings of the technology (discrimination, false recognition), but especially because of the inhibiting effects on democratic processes [...]
SwissCovid App – viele Stärken, einige Schwächen

23/06/2020 0

Der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hat zehn Kriterien zur Beurteilung von Contact Tracing Apps vorgelegt. Sechs dieser Kriterien werden von der SwissCovid App erfüllt, vier werden teilweise erfüllt. Die Grafik fasst die Bewertung anhand der CCC-Kriterien zusammen. Sie zeigt, dass sich die Entwickler der App erfolgreich Mühe gegeben haben, die [...]

IT & Culture

Documenting and Preserving Heritage Creatively

News Digital Heritage SIG In 2018, the Digital Heritage SIG organised an exhibition with the Zurich artist Peter Grenacher focusing on his research with the Ishango Bone, which was presented in the ETH Zurich and seen by several hundreds visitors. In the same vane, the Digital Heritage SIG in collaboration [...]

Business Informatics

Business Informatics – Educating Makers of Digitalization for Self-Sovereignty

When Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, claimed last year that a college degree would not be necessary to do well in the IT industry, he earned much criticism from the side of academics. However, reading his statement given at the Whitehouse to its full extent reveals another remark that should have created [...]

Economy

How to Deploy Big Data and AI in Business

Quick wins, substantial wins, and big wins in big data and AI deployment follow different patterns of identification and implementation. Knowing these patterns makes it easier to perform a proper expectation management. Quick wins Quick wins with big data and/or AI re not as quick as people expect. [...]

Privacy & Security

Safety. Relevant. Software. Secure Coding. CyberSecurity-Resilienz

The digitization of processes in all industries and in administration is progressing with great momentum. New opportunities, new processes, new dependencies, new risks are constantly [...]