The use of big data can improve our everyday lives: medical care, mobility and energy efficiency, or the supply of information.

At the same time, this increased use challenges us: in safeguarding democratic processes, equal treatment and fairness, regarding the right to anonymity in public spaces.

And ultimately, it is elusive to many: who understands the processes that take place behind user interfaces? What can they be used for? And how can the indispensable data flows be regulated in a meaningful way?

These and other questions were addressed by the National Research Program «Big Data» (NRP 75).

Various representatives of the DSI were involved in the program.

Click here for the final report.

A selection of media reports on the topic:

• Inside IT: Big Data als grosse Herausforderung
• Prosseportal & div. Medien: Big Data, grosse Herausforderung
• AlphaGalileo: Big data, big challenges
• SRF «10 vor 10»: Fazit Nationalfondsprojekt «Big Data»
• SRF «Tagesschau»: Das Erheben und Nutzen von Daten ist Alltag
• SRF «Rendez-vous»: Umgang mit «Big Data»: Wo steht die Schweiz?
• Nau.ch & div. Medien: Big Data stellt Gesellschaft vor grosse Herausforderungen
• swissinfo: Legal gaps hamper Big Data’s benefits, finds study