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Dmytro Boyarchuk and Christopher Hartwell are working together on the project  Economic priorities in post-war Ukraine, funded by the Rapid Action Call. The Chicago Tribune published a commentary by the two explaining why now is the right time to talk about reconstruction and what areas the plan for Ukraine must… Read More »A Ukrainian postwar recovery plan needs specifics now. A commentary by Dmytro Boyarchuk and Christopher Hartwell in the Chicago Tribune.

Switzerland urgently needs to have a debate about which attack scenarios we can expect and what collateral damage we are willing to accept, writes Markus Christen from the University of Zurich in the column: Cyber defence – defined processes instead of “hack backs” (external link), which appeared in InsideIT. The… Read More »Is the Canton of Zurich equipped against cyber attacks?

The Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) intensifies the exchange with practice and the public. To this end, DIZH is funding four innovation structures with a total of 16 million Swiss francs for the areas of Autonomous Systems, Clinical Innovation, Cybersecurity and Digital Health. DIZH is creating… Read More »Innovation through exchange and networking

Virtual Reality (VR) learning exercises are recognized to boost motivation of students and to be highly scalable. In Central Tanzania, Helvetas and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) conducted a pilot study with electrical engineering students at two government vocational training schools. Helvetas is a practice partner in the… Read More »Virtual reality as a learning venue for basic vocational training – pilot test with students in Tanzania

Have a look behind the shiny surfaces of the smartphone industry. The video gives an impression of the Kamituga | Digital Gold project, which was shown as part of the Planet Digital exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich. More information: www.digital-gold.ch www.immersive-arts.ch

DSI Infrastructures & Labs are jointly usable infrastructures or structural vessels that are intended to generate collaborative settings for research – naturally always with reference to the digital transformation. Synergies and new forms of cooperation are to be made possible from the bundling of existing competences and people. We are… Read More »DSI Infrastructure & Lab

DSI LECTURE SERIES 2022 Over the past three months, we have intensively studied the future of the world of work: We have learned, for example, that a healthy dose of humour never hurts in everyday working life. We now know what challenges food delivery workers on bicycles have to deal… Read More »The Future of Work

On Thursday, 30 June 2022 at 4:30 pm, the Immersive Arts Space invites you to a book vernissage [more]. Christoph N. Vogel’s publication CONFLICT MINERALS INC will be presented. The vernissage will take place in the Immersive Arts Space and is part of a collaboration with the Geographical Institute of… Read More »Kamituga / Digital Gold

From gaming to governance: four projects have been approved in the innovation program of the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH). In close cooperation with practitioners, digital solutions can contribute to dealing with emergencies as a result of the war against Ukraine. In various respects, the war… Read More »DIZH funds four projects to deal with emergencies as a result of the war against Ukraine