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The Faculty of Theology at the University of Zurich invites applications for the following position to be filled as of 1 August 2025: Professor of Ancient Christianity and Digital Humanities. The professorship will be filled as an assistant professorship with Tenure Track.
DSI Infrastructures & Labs are shareable infrastructures or structural vessels for creating collaborative research environments related to digital transformation. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bernard briefly introduces the SDG Research Scout, one of the projects in this series.
In the workshop «DSI meets USZ», ten scientists from the DSI Community Health presented their methodological skills and ongoing projects to an audience of researchers and staff members of the University Hospital Zurich. The workshop’s mission was to bring the two communities closer and to foster collaborations.
The DSI Community Health invites you to participate in the study «The Role of Humanization of Chatbots Asking Questions Related to Mental Well-being». Your valuable contribution will help the community to better understand design choices for healthcare chatbots to improve users’ experience with chatbots and their responsible design.
From now until 15.01.2024, interested parties can apply for the upcoming start of the DSI Excellence Program in September 2024. The program prepares doctoral students from all disciplines for an environment in which interdisciplinary collaboration on digitalization topics is a top priority.
The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) of the University of Zurich (UZH) held its annual general meeting on November 2. Participants were offered a panel discussion entitled «The media world is changing rapidly: what does this mean for scientists?».
DIZH launches the Structure Call. Maximum duration of five years and funding of up to CHF 2 million. Submissions are possible until 01.04.2024.
DSI Postdoc Felix Gille publishes his book «What Is Public Trust in the Health System? Insights into Health Data Use.» The book addresses the question of what public trust in the health system means and why trust is important for its success.
DSI Infrastructures & Labs are shareable infrastructures or structural vessels for creating collaborative research environments related to digital transformation. Prof. Dr. Viktor von Wyl briefly introduces Talk2UZH («talk to us»), one of the projects in this series.
The paper «Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones: A Scoping Literature Review» by Dr. Ning Wang, Nico Mutzner, and Prof. Dr. Karl Blanchet was published in the current issue of the journal «Technogloy in Society».
The Digital Society Initiative (DSI), together with researchers from the Bern University of Applied Sciences, has published a three-part series on the topic of prevention and defense against cyber attacks (in German) in InsideIT.
In September 2023, the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) held its second workshop for journalists working on digital issues. The event was thematically oriented toward the upcoming national elections.
Happy Welcome – since the end of August, the DSI has 14 new doctoral students in its Excellence Program (PhD).
During the 18th - 22nd September 2023, the DSI Community Ethics Ethics organized a dynamic series of workshops, lectures and public events, focusing on the societal and ethical issues posed by artificial intelligence (AI): the DSI AI-Week 2023.
Almost two-thirds of the Swiss population would like to have a digital twin. The digital image of a human body is likely to have a major impact on healthcare in the future and will become an issue in diagnosis and therapy, but also in prevention. The Digital Society Initiative (DSI), together with GFS Bern, conducted a representative survey on the topic in Switzerland.
The Department of Geography and the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich have two open positions: two assistant professorships with tenure track. Both professorships will be affiliated members of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI).
DSI Infrastructures & Labs are shareable infrastructures or structural vessels for creating collaborative research environments related to digital transformation. Dr. Ning Wang briefly introduces the BRIDGE Lab, one of the projects in this series.
The office of the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) is looking for a «Business Controller DIZH (40-50%)» in addition to the already advertised position «Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in Förderinstrumente DIZH 60 %».
The DSI Community Ethics organizes a series of workshops and public events to engage in current discussions about developments of Artificial Intelligence. At AI-Week, we strive to foster an environment that stimulates interdisciplinary thinking and encourages thoughtful analysis of the ethical implications inherent in AI development and applications.
How do the candidates position themselves on digital policy issues? The «Digitalisierungsmonitor» for the National Council and Council of States elections on October 22, 2023, enables voters to identify the candidates' positions in the area of digital policy and thus make an informed voting decision.
The paper «Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection» by Tania Manríquez Roa and Prof. Dr. Nikola Biller-Adorno was published in the current issue of the journal «Bioethics».
On July 11 and 12, the official launch of the pilot project «ZuriACT: Zurich Accessible CiTy» took place at the premises of the DSI. This project promotes barrier-free and inclusive mobility in District 1 of the city of Zurich.
For administrative and technical support in the Program Office (PO), the office of the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) is looking for a «Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in Förderinstrumente DIZH» (60%) with a flair for statistics and content reporting for the Innovation Program.
We are inviting applications for a 4 years funded PhD position. The position is part of the research project «From Text to Image with AI: How Multimodal Deep Learning Impacts Art and Culture», funded by the Digital Society Initiative.
The UZH Innovation Grants are an early-stage funding support for research-based innovations at the University of Zurich.
The Digital Society Initiative and the division of Mathematics are seeking candidates with an excellent track record and the potential to establish an internationally leading research group in one area of mathematics for high-dimensional problems with connections to mathematical modeling, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other areas relevant in natural sciences.
DSI Infrastructures & Labs are shareable infrastructures or structural vessels for creating collaborative research environments related to digital transformation. Dr. Sebastiano Caprara briefly introduces HDR, one of the latest projects in this series.
With the DSI Bridge Postdoc Call, the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) is looking for researchers (PhDs) who are at the beginning of their academic career and are conducting interdisciplinary research on topics closely related to digitalization and its impact on society.
Navigating the dynamic landscape of the digital economy can be challenging due to uncoordinated government regulations and the lack of international best practices. Worse, there is currently no international monitoring effort for laws and regulations affecting the digital economy. The Digital Policy Alert (DPA) aims to fill the evidence gap in digital economy policies by offering publicly accessible, transparent, and timely documentation of policy and enforcement developments.
The special course and open innovation format «UZH Innovathon: The Digitalization of Mobility», developed by the DSI Community Mobility together with the UZH Innovation Hub, will take place again in Fall 2023.
The Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich is launching the pilot project «ZuriACT: Zurich Accessible CiTy» with the City of Zurich for barrier-free and inclusive mobility in District 1 of the City of Zurich. The project team is looking for participants.
Two positions related to digital transformation are available in the DSI environment.
The third Campus Oerlikon lecture series is entitled «Friend or Foe? Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Society». The organizers invite all doctoral students, post-docs and professors at Campus Oerlikon to submit a contribution related to the topic.
The statistics on the information society allow the Swiss Federal Statistical Office to show the developments in digitalization in Switzerland. Based on the latest data, the indicators have now been updated.
DSI Researcher Dr. Ning Wang has been appointed a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Technology Policy by the World Economic Forum (WEF) during 2023-2024. She will attend this year's meeting of the new champions in China.
The Digital Society Initiative and the Department for Computational Linguistics are seeking a PhD student in the area of natural language processing for sign languages, especially neural machine translation.
The Digital Society Initiative and the Department for Computational Linguistics are seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD student in the area of person identification analysis using communication signals of speech, gestures, and mimics using AI.
The DSI Community Mobility is organizing its 2-day interdisciplinary workshop in Filzbach, Switzerland on June 22-23, 2023, to connect researchers interested in the future of mobility and establish collaborations in the field.
With Scigate - a project of the DSI Community Libraries - an interface to the legal text corpus shall be outlined, which is a classical search interface and a modern programming interface at the same time.
Since spring 2023, the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich and the Verein Parldigi have been offering the «Parldigi MasterClass» with the support of Stiftung Mercator.
The Center for Digital Ethics at Yale University, directed by Prof. Luciano Floridi, is recruiting full-time, postdoctoral and postgraduate researchers, from a variety of backgrounds, to join this multidisciplinary center newly established at Yale, to investigate the Governance, Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (GELSI) of digital technologies.
With this call type, the innovation program supports market-, society- or culture-related entrepreneurial projects in the context of digital transformation. The Founder Call is intended to contribute to the creation of spin-offs and start-ups in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors by employees and students of the partner universities.
The new study program «Digital Skills» of the DSI prepares students of all faculties of the UZH for the digital transformation. This minor with a scope of 30 ECTS at Master's level is built up and continuously developed together with a Community of Practice (CoP). On March 17, 2023, over 40 people attended the meeting of this CoP.
The DSI Community Ethics invites all interested parties to the first session of the Apéro Philo series on May 11, 2023. The event focuses on the topic «Digital Wellbeing: Conceptualization, Empirical Results, Challenges».
In March 2023, the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) organized a workshop on «Algorithms and AI» for journalists specialized in digital topics. A total of 18 media professionals accepted the invitation and engaged in a lively exchange with research experts.
The DSI Community Health organizes a workshop on «Medical Knowledge In the Clinic and Out of the Clinic». The organizers call for abstracts on the topic.
The Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich is inviting applications for a Student Assistant as a support of the Digital Monitor project starting on May 1, 2023. The position is limited to six months.
Digital technologies shape our everyday lives, including our work and studies at UZH. That's why UZH is getting a digital strategy. All employees and students are invited to comment on the current draft
The Institute of Educational Science at the University of Zurich, Chair of Educational Technology, has a vacancy for a Research Assistant (60%) to start on 01.05.2023 or as agreed.
Liudmila Zavolokina, researcher and postdoc at the DSI, in collaboration with Gerhard Schwabe and Gianluca Miscione, has received DIZH funding for her latest research project: «Government as a Platform: Orchestrating stakeholders in crisis situations through digital platforms».
The paper «Political Polarization of News Media and Influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections» by DSI Professor Alexandre Bovet and nine co-authors was published in the current issue of the journal «Nature Human Behavior».
The DSI Community Gaming, together with the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB) and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), is organizing the public event series «Games in Context» from March to December 2023. The increasing influence of digital games on our society will be made visible and discussed.
DSI Researcher Dr. Ning Wang was appointed a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Technology Policy by the World Economic Forum (WEF) during 2023-2024.
The DSI Infrastructure & Lab Call is now open. It is addressed to all DSI members and allows funding of up to CHF 100'000.
The National Research Programme «Big Data» (NRP 75) of the Swiss National Science Foundation investigated the opportunities and the challenges. On March 2, 2023, the final report was presented at a media conference.
The University of Zurich invites applications for a position as an assistant professorship with tenure track in digital higher education. The position should be filled by 1 August 2024. This is a joint professorship with the University of Teacher Education Zurich (PHZ).
The newly launched DSI Community Sustainability aims to drive both sustainable digitalization and digital sustainability. Co-leader Dr. Mario Angst gives a brief insight into the work of the community.
«Playful work», combating forced marriage or education for the 60+ generation: the 18 applications approved in the 2nd project call in the innovation program of the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) use technologies and develop innovative applications to address human needs and values.
DSI Infrastructures & Labs are shareable infrastructures or structural vessels for creating collaborative research environments related to digital transformation. Prof. Dr. Oliver Strijbis briefly introduces PREMIA, one of the latest projects in this series.
Interactive language models amaze people. How did these machine learning successes come about? Do they have semantics and abstraction capabilities? And what do they mean for research and teaching at the University of Zurich in the long term?
How do the candidates for the Swiss National Council and Council of States position themselves on digital policy issues? The digitalization monitor for the elections on October 22, 2023, helps voters make their decision on the basis of selected questions. Citizens can now submit their questions.
The University of Zurich (UZH) invites applications for a DIZH professorship in Digital Cultures and Arts. The position should be filled by February 1, 2024. The professorship will be established as a joint assistant professorship between the UZH and Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). After six years and upon a successful evaluation, the professorship is to be made permanent.
Newly launched in 2023, the DSI Community Education is dedicated to research in learning and teaching with digital media and in digital environments. Are you interested in becoming part of the new community? Share your ideas, wishes and perceived challenges with the community via a short survey and join the kick-off meeting at the end of February.
DSI members Liudmila Zavolokina and Kilian Sprenkamp, with co-author Birgit Schenk, won the Best Paper Award in the Digital Government Track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences with their paper «Citizens' Expectations about Achieving Public Value and the Role of Digital Technologies: It Takes Three to Tango!».
The University of Zurich (UZH) is strengthening research and teaching on digital transformation. It is creating seven new professorships that will work on important digital topics such as cybersecurity, urban analytics and the sociology of digitalization.
