Category: Interview
“So that digital transformation does not become an elite project”
Valerie Mocker works as an investor for the common good and trains leaders with the Wingwomen Academy. In this interview, she talks about the prerequisites for a digitalisation that is oriented towards the common good.
“Understanding what China is doing”
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…
In flux
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.
Piggybacking data
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.
Capturing the dynamics of digital transformation
The lawyer Eric Hilgendorf examines the extent to which technical developments need to be re-regulated in the course of the digital transformation. Often, the current rules would suffice.
“The allocation of funds is a crucial mechanism”
The bidt project “Digital Transformation Strategies of German Federal States” provides a comparison of different approaches to digital policy. An interview with Thomas Hess and Katharina Brunner on the project study.
The quality of Citizen Science
An interview with Andreas Wenninger about good scientific practice in citizen science and why it benefits from digitalisation.
Ethics and software: what works, what doesn’t?
Philosopher Julian Nida-Rümelin and computer scientist Alexander Pretschner are jointly researching how ethical considerations can already be integrated into the development of software.
“A huge experiment”
The social points system has an impact beyond China. What data is collected and what the system means for German companies and institutions like the World Bank is being investigated in bidt’s project “Learning from…
Digital transparency on the job: playing with data
Anyone who works with digital means is constantly generating data. A bidt spin-off project is investigating how these can be used in a way that benefits employees and employers.