The fifth DSI Strategy Lab deals with the topic of quantum technology. It assesses the status and possible future scenarios of quantum technologies and formulates recommendations. The results of the Strategy Lab can now be read in the newly published position paper. Go to position paper It has been 100… Read More »Position paper with recommendations on quantum technology published
A paper by the TRUST-RAD research team, in collaboration with the Medical Data Science group at ETH Zurich, and the computational infrastructure supported by the Swiss AI Initiative and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) under project ID a02 on Alps, has been accepted for the ICML 2025 Workshop on… Read More »Reliable AI assistance tools for radiology: TRUST-RAD represented at ICML 2025 workshop
On June 24, 2025, a new interactive tool for promoting AI skills among young people was presented at an online event. The event provided an introduction to the digital offering, accompanying teaching materials and an insight into current research on the role of AI in education. Go to Tool The… Read More »Online tool for the promotion of AI skills among young people
The Public Data Lab uses data to better understand social, economic and ecological change processes and their effects. However, data alone is not enough, as it is only by combining it into meaningful indicators that a comprehensive assessment of the quality of life becomes possible, which serves as a basis… Read More »Measure quality of life automatically and improve it in the long term
Digital technologies open up new opportunities to make living, working and educational spaces more sustainable, efficient and connected. Three newly approved projects demonstrate concrete approaches to how these potentials can be harnessed. In the fourth Rapid Action Call, DIZH is supporting three projects. The call for proposals, titled “Smart Spaces:… Read More »Smart Spaces: Three new projects
Gender-based violence (GBV) often goes unrecognised by those affected. Social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram are increasingly shaping how individuals come to understand and name their experiences. A recent study from Nimra Ahmed and her team explored how awareness content influences recognition and help-seeking. Using surveys and interviews, the… Read More »Social Media and the Journey Toward Help-Seeking in GBV Contexts
During a crisis, a flood of uncoordinated digital tools from government, NGOs, and volunteers often creates more confusion than clarity. This phenomenon is examined in a new paper, referred to as the “solution trap.” Drawing on a two-year case study of the digital response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis in… Read More »Mind the “GaaP”: Identifying and Solving Solution Traps in Crises
Making sustainability measurable The global loss of biodiversity and the increasing water scarcity are among the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. This is where PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH comes in: Using scientifically grounded analyses of spatial environmental footprints and linking them to corporate locations, the team assesses how… Read More »Founding of PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH
For the fifth time, we are announcing the Project Call in the innovation program. We fund interdisciplinary and inter-university projects that address practical issues and societal challenges. Projects with novel or high-risk approaches, such as those where the path to implementation or the assessment of impact involves uncertainties, are explicitly… Read More »Call for proposals: 5. Project Call
In the third DSI Insights of the year, Noah Bubenhofer, Co-Director of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), explains how artificial intelligence (AI) can help with writing texts and why it doesn’t always make sense to leave the writing of a text entirely to AI. “In the educational context, this raises… Read More »How AI is changing the way we write and think