Economie
The Trust Shifts
Everyone seems to agree that digital transformation has a trust problem, but few try to look behind the curtain: What is the nature of the problem? Trust is one of those concepts that can […]
Société
ITfeuer
A Stage for Women in IT
In the scope of the initiative www.it-feuer.ch the Swiss Informatics Society (SI) publishes portraits of women in IT from June to December 2021. SI has been looking for female role models and found many […]
Economie
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 […]
Culture
Abstracting Digital Documents to Think about Cultural Preservation
The textual scholar and literary critic Jerome McGann begins his most recent book with the following: “Here is surely a truth now universally acknowledged: that the whole of our cultural inheritance has to be recurated […]
Informatik und Gesellschaft SIG
Facial Recognition Statement of the SI Expert Group “Informatics & Society
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 […]
Société
What’s Wrong with AI? A Discussion Paper
AI ON THE RISE There are probably not many people who would doubt that we have arrived in an age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Of course, this opens up many previously untapped […]
Informatik und Gesellschaft SIG
Braucht die SI Ethikrichtlinien?
Auch wenn sie nicht immer so heissen, haben doch alle Berufsorganisationen Ethikrichtlinien. Diese Richtlinien helfen den Mitgliedern, sich in für die jeweilige Gruppe spezifischen ethischen Konfliktsituationen („richtig“) zu entscheiden. Ist es zum Beispiel für InformatikerInnen […]
Société
Stand der Technik – das neue Paradigma in jeder Technologie?
Der zunehmend referenzierte Technologiestandard «Stand der Technik» – speziell bei Verträgen, Services, Regulationen, AGBs und Audits rund um Informatik, Clouds, Security und Technologie- / Datenschutz- / Datensicherheit-Themen generell – muss von den begrifflich ähnlich lautenden […]
Société
Innovation in Zeiten der digitalen Transformation
«We live in exponential times» – Mit diesen Worten hat der US-amerikanische Publizist Kevin Kelly unsere Gegenwart treffend beschrieben. Spätestens seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhundert erleben die Menschen ihre Welt zunehmend als Zeit tiefgreifender globaler […]
Economie
Très faciunt collegium: How digital business works
Quoting from a private communication with a Swiss executive: “The executive boards already understand digitalization, but the boards of directors don’t.” This is indeed widely true in Switzerland. However, it is only part of […]