Launch of the Parldigi MasterClass in Geneva The Parldigi MasterClass for members of the Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva was launched on 26 January 2024 with a first event on cybersecurity. The Parldigi MasterClass gives politicians the opportunity to learn more about technical, social, legal and ethical topics… Read More »Digital competence for politicians
14 new projects are being funded by ZHAW digital as part of the Digital Futures Fund (DFF). These include projects for internal digital transformation and innovative research projects. The “Digital Futures Fund” funding program by ZHAW digital is aimed at all ZHAW employees who are involved in digital transformation inside and outside… Read More »ZHAW digital funds 14 new projects
20 years of Facebook is the topic of the SRF Digital Podcast. Jürg Tschirren sheds light on various aspects of the development and criticism that have accompanied Facebook since it was founded. He explores the question of whether the accusations levelled at the social network are justified. Karsten Donnay, Assistant… Read More »20 years of Facebook – Karsten Donnay as a guest on SRF Digital Podcast
Data Donation Day 2024 The Data Donation Lab will organize a Data Donation Day in September 2024 in Switzerland. The goal of the Data Donation Day is to increase people’s awareness of the possibility to donate their personal digital data to research and provide them the opportunity to participate in… Read More »Data donation for research purposes
As part of the 1st Outreach Call in the DIZH innovation program, 10 projects are being funded that not only increase the visibility of digital innovations, but also promote an engaged and critical discourse on their impact. The aim of the outreach call is to make the impact of digital… Read More »10 DIZH projects for more visibility and networking
For: High school students from a Gymnasium or Berufsmaturitätsschule in their third and final year before graduation.Date and time: 17 April 2024, 8:00am-08:00pmLocation: University of Zurich, DIZH, Rämistrasse 69, 8001 Zürich What is it about? “Kick-start your Career with AI» is a full-day hackathon aimed at empowering young and aspiring students to harness… Read More »Kick-start your Career with AI
In the NZZ am Sonntag from 7 January 2024, Denise Bucher discusses the growing control over content by tech companies in Silicon Valley and its impact on art and freedom of expression. The censorship of films on Amazon Prime and Apple and the restrictive guidelines on platforms such as Instagram… Read More »Restricting creativity: tech companies and the growing censorship in the digital world
Researchers from the University of Zurich have been honoured with the UZH Postdoc Team Award for developing an innovative smartwatch application and companion app called MindfulPacer to help Long Covid sufferers manage their symptoms. The researchers, André Meyer-Baron and Carlo Cervia-Hasler, met at a DIZH networking event in November 2022… Read More »A Smartwatch App to Tackle Long Covid
In the current podcast episode, we take an exclusive look at ChaLL, the prototype of a language-based chatbot that enables students to improve their language skills. Manuela Hürlimann from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at the ZHAW provides insights into the development of the bot and explains why such a… Read More »Learning languages the easy way
Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Inventarnummer LM-102737.46 Hardly anyone today knows anything about the “Spanish flu” of 1918-1920 and the “Asian flu” of 1957. However, since knowledge about past pandemics would be very valuable for future health risks, researchers at UZH and ZHAW want to close this memory gap. Author: Louis Schäfer “All… Read More »From the “Spanish flu” to COVID-19 – why researching past pandemics is worthwhile