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Ute Schmid’s research area lies at the interface of AI development and its application. The bidt director is committed to a partnership between people and technology.

The social credit system in China records the creditworthiness of companies and individuals as well as their behaviour. An interview with sinologist and economist Doris Fischer about the role of trust in the economy and the question…

When parents publish photos of their children in social media or forward them via messenger, they may be violating their personal rights. The lawyer Katharina Starz examines the phenomenon of “sharenting”.

Christian Stumpf is a researcher at the bidt think tank. The social scientist designs surveys that bidt uses to shed light on current challenges of the digital transformation.

Humans will also continue to work in factories. In mixed skill factories, machines will help to make work more humane.

Digitisation presents public service media offerings with many challenges at the same time. How these can be overcome, at least in part, is being researched by sociologist Jan-Hendrik Passoth in an interdisciplinary bidt project…

Digital technologies have an impact on the lives of every single person. What opportunities, but also challenges, are associated with this will be examined at bidt.

Christina Dieckhoff coordinates the promotion of young researchers at bidt. A portrait of the research coordinator.

The bidt dictionary on the digital transformation explains various terms – this time: What is data portability?

The right to data portability is hardly known and difficult to implement. A bidt project is investigating how users can gain more control over their own data.