Topic: Digital society
How can society successfully undergo digital transformation? From the state of digitalisation in Germany to questions regarding its benefits for the common good, social change requires a dialogue prioritising knowledge transfer.
Lord of the numbers
Christian Stumpf is a researcher at the bidt think tank. The social scientist designs surveys that bidt uses to shed light on current challenges of the digital transformation.
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.
On course
Christina Dieckhoff coordinates the promotion of young researchers at bidt. A portrait of the research coordinator.
What is … Data Portability
The bidt dictionary on the digital transformation explains various terms – this time: What is data portability?
Corona, Digitalisation and us
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…
Data Portability – Significant, but not well known
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…
Contact Tracing Apps in the Corona Pandemic
On the trail of the virus: How are Corona apps used throughout the world, what technical difficulties are encountered during their implementation and in which ways are they currently being refined. This is a comparison of Corona…
A new living world
Andreas Boes researches the effects of digitalisation on the individual and on social coexistence.
The quality of Citizen Science
An interview with Andreas Wenninger about good scientific practice in citizen science and why it benefits from digitalisation.
Research, enlighten, shape
Alexander Pretschner helps to deepen the understanding of digital transformation and its consequences – the prerequisite for shaping digitalisation.

