Topic: Digital society

In a data-driven world, data literacy, the understanding of the algorithmic processing of data, becomes a fundamental competence for digital literacy. This knowledge and the informed handling of new – for example AI-based…

Older people are on the internet almost as often as other age groups, but the type of internet use differs in detail. In addition, the 65+ age group estimates their digital skills to be significantly lower.

The indicator shows the self-assessed digital comptences in Germany and seven other European countries and in individual population groups.

Question to our experts: In your view, which digital transformation topic will gain (social) relevance in 2022 and why?

In unserem monatlichen Kolloquium sprechen interne und externe Expertinnen und Experten über aktuelle Forschungsthemen, politische Diskussionen oder gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen zum Thema „Digitalisierung und Gesellschaft“.

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.

DigiMeet took place virtually on 10 June 2021 with the topic “sustainability in digital transformation: charting new terrain, exploring tensions.” The main purpose of this interdisciplinary event was to provide a forum…

AI and related technologies keep shaping our society, providing us with more and more solutions that seemed impossible only a few years ago. This blog post gives an insight into the research field of bioinformatics, showing…

Ordinary citizens involvement in scientific research should not be taken as a matter of course. Nevertheless, the history of science has over time seen various forms of civil society participation, including Citizen Science…

AI is the abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence – but what is Explainable AI all about? Ute Schmid explains the term.