The ZHAW School of Engineering has developed an intuitive search function as part of an EU project. This allows information, for example on cancer research or astrophysics, to be found and evaluated in huge databases. The INODE project is funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research program.
Read More »ZHAW presents intuitive search engine for scientific datasetsMoney 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.
Participate to the Win.Lab Co-Creation Innovation Workshop and develop wanted Decarbonisation Ideas in a Design Thinking process in Public Private People Partnerships to be posted on the HYPE platform, which might be awarded with Seed Money to further develop the selected Ideas.
Read More »Swiss Green Economy Symposium (SGES) Innovation Forum “Smart Cities – Brilliant Ideas for Smart Sustainable City Developments” in Winterthur, 3rd September 2021Two calls for proposals will be launched at the start of the Fall Semester 2021: Call for rapid action proposals and call for proposals for ecosystem creation.
Read More »Advance notice calls for proposals
The Parldigi MasterClass is a series of events for parliamentarians consisting of three thematic modules and a concluding discussion event on a current political topic. Renowned researchers from the Universities of Zurich and Geneva as well as EPFL and ETHZ will present and discuss the latest scientific findings on the topics of artificial intelligence, cyber security and the Internet of the future. The continuing education morning will take place on Monday at the beginning of all four sessions in 2021 at the Federal Palace.
Read More »Parldigi MasterClass 2021Date: 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.
Read More »Call for Papers: Digital Democracy WorkshopTransformation of the textile industry from push to pull production through digitalization Development of a platform on which clothing can be digitally tried on and purchased using a personal 3D avatar. The platform integrates all players in the supply chain and, by switching from push to pull production, has the… Read More »2021.1 Transformation textile industry
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).
Read More »Prevalence of Hate Speech on Twitter in Switzerland and Strategies to Counter ItIn many professions where personal contact with people is paramount, digitalisation has a difficult time. But digital tools can also make midwives’ work easier in obstetrics. DIZH fellow Michael Gemperle tells you what digitalisation can do in obstetrics – and what it can’t.
Read More »Digitalisation in obstetricsAlice Delorme Benites from the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics knows that machine translation systems are popular among ZHAW researchers. As part of a DIZH Fellowship and a DFF project, she is investigating how to use machine translation for papers, abstracts or research proposals and what to consider.
Read More »Better use of DeepL, Google Translate & Co.