Enabler: Permanence

Encounters with living witnesses of the Holocaust are an important part of Holocaust education. But can the memories also be made accessible digitally and interactively for future generations?

Digital innovations are central to the success of companies today. They change processes, enable new business models and question corporate identity: who are we and who do we want to be?

Podcasts are more than just digital audio files: they stand for a flexible, individual reception experience and enrich the media landscape with creative and participative formats.

The digital afterlife industry offers avatars for a digital afterlife. The simulation of the deceased raises ethical questions with regard to mourning and remembering in data-economic contexts.

Digital communities are based on algorithmically mediated social relationships in digital space. They enable flexible participation and intensive interaction and form a new dimension of communitization.

Online misogyny is embedded in existing political structures of discrimination and oppression and affects women who belong to minorities or historically disadvantaged groups with particular severity.

The article shows how companies can use crowdsourcing, crowdworking and crowdfunding to drive innovation and solve complex problems.

Examples from Estonia, the USA, India and Brazil show this: Political elections can certainly be digitized – in Germany, the main thing missing is a suitable organizational and governance structure.

Learning environments based on virtual reality are increasingly changing education and training in the healthcare sector. The article highlights the areas of application and opportunities of this new method in medical studies.

Augmented reality will change the way we shop in the future – from virtual kitchen furnishings and digital fitting rooms to hologram shopping advice in the living room.