UZH Digital Society Initiative

The UZH DSI Excellence Program for PhD students, a complementary curriculum to the doctorate in the respective field of study, is entering its third year. As every year, scholarships are offered to applicants with very good academic performance and interest in research on the impact of digitalization on society. We invite all interested applicants to apply for the DSI Excellence Program (start: September 2022) via the DSI website from 1 December 2021.

DSI Infrastructures & Labs are shareable infrastructures or structural vessels for generating collaborative settings for research – always with a reference to digital transformation. “The Future of Work Virtual Reality Lab” is such a vessel. It invites broad academic participation and collaboration with practitioners across different sectors and industries and… Read More »The Future of Work Virtual Reality Lab

The Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Universities (DIZH) and the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) are announcing a new Call for DSI Infrastructures & Labs. The focus of the DSI Infrastructure & Lab Call is on the establishment of jointly usable infrastructures or structural vessels to promote collaborative settings for research… Read More »New DSI Infrastructure & Lab Call

Money without a bank? Notary services without a notary? Blockchain technology promises to eliminate the need for trust. Really?
In her DSI Insights guest post at Inside IT, DSI postdoc Liudmila Zavolokina addresses these questions around blockchain, trust and trust creation.

Date: 28. & 29. October 2021

The Digital Democracy workshop is co-organized by the Democracy Community of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) and the Digital Democracy Lab (DigDemLab) at the University of Zurich. It aims to facilitate exchange among scholars from different substantive fields working on these topics. 

The new project financed by BAKOM combines natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning with civil society engagement to analyse the prevalence of online hate speech on Twitter in Switzerland and to identify effective strategies to counter it. The project is a collaboration between alliance F (Federation of Swiss Women’s Associations), the Digital Democracy Lab (UZH) and the Immigration Policy Lab (ETH).

In the context of a research project of the DSI, the Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) group aims to better understand when, how, and where people use mobile map apps. Such knowledge of mobile map use behaviour in everyday activities may help to design future map apps that more… Read More »Join the study: Smartphone map app use