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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 Corona pandemic provides a vivid illustration of what is important as we move towards a digital society: the conditions under which people can and must implement the possibilities of digitalisation in their private and professional…

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.

In this project, we did not set out with the intention of coming up with a definition of AI or intelligence. Instead, we followed a bottom-up approach: We extracted the emerging perspective on ‘intelligence’ in a research…

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.

Imagine that your elderly relative lives at home with her assistive care robot, which is tasked to help her with day-to-day activities. Then one day you receive a call to say that your relative has been found unconscious on the floor,…

Users have the right to retrieve their data stored with online services and have it transferred to other services, for example when changing providers. Initial studies from the bidt project “Motivation and Implementation…

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.