Archive: Glossary Entries

Originally a technical term, digitalisation broadly describes the use of various digital technologies and the associated, diverse transformation processes.

In the first approach, digital transformation refers to changes in society or social subsystems accompanying digitalisation.

An economy that is exclusively or primarily based on digital products and services is referred to as digital.

Digital skills describes the knowledge and skills required for the use of information and communication technology as well as digital media.

The digital infrastructure is the foundation for internet access and digital services. We distinguish between the cable-based fixed network and the mobile network.

Digital Health encompasses all applications and measures based on the potential of modern information and communication technologies (ICT).

In the fourth industrial revolution, computerised machines communicate via the internet and along the entire value chain in order to independently self-organise.

Intellectual property describes independent intellectual goods that are protected in such a comprehensive way by the legal system that their owner can prevent their use by others.

As a genre, fake news refers to “pseudo-journalistic misinformation”, while as a label, fake news means an attack on and a critique of quality journalistic media.

eLearning (electronic learning), meaning computer-based learning, is understood as teaching and learning with the help of various digital media.