How to Align Digitalization with Sustainability?

The relationship between digital technologies and sustainable development has been guiding the research and teaching of the ISR group since it was founded in 2010 by Prof. Lorenz Hilty. We study both the opportunities and the risks of digitalization for sustainable development.
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Farewell Lecture “Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit” (held in German)
On June 18, 2024, Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hilty - Professor of Informatics and Sustainability Research at the IfI and UZH’s delegate for sustainability - gave his farewell lecture.
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How does innovation reach farmers?
A group of three Master students developed a tool to simulate innovation diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa using an agent-based approach.
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Guidance for tomorrow’s technology
The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) published their «Technology Outlook» - an interdisciplinary view on tomorrow's technology. Dr. Ning Wang contributed.