Glasgow Airport unveils Britain's first robot 'staff member'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/glasgow/articles/glasgow-airport-launches-britains-first-robot-airport-worker/

BT and Huawei team up for 5G network trials

http://www.cbronline.com/news/mobility/networks/bt-huawei-team-5g-network-trials/

OTT: WhatsApp, Skype face tighter constraints under new EU privacy rules - draft

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-internet-security-idUKKBN1412LE

IoT will transform the freight business

http://www.lloydsloadinglist.com/freight-directory/news/IoT-will-transform-the-freight-business/68148.htm#.WFophxuLRO9

WhatsApp, Skype face tighter constraints under new EU privacy rules - draft

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-internet-security-idUKKBN1412LE

New start-up wave challenges Japan's aversion to risk

http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-japan-economy-entrepreneurship-idUKKBN1442XI

IT Priorities 2017: More than half of Middle East organisations will reduce spending on IT staff

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450404413/IT-Priorities-2017-More-than-half-of-Middle-East-organisations-will-reduce-spending-on-IT-staff

Some of the Worst Internet of Things Products You Could Buy This Christmas

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/internet-of-shit-gift-guide

UKtech50 2016 - The most influential people in UK IT

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450404054/UKtech50-2016-The-most-influential-people-in-UK-IT

Logicworks Tried To Beat Amazon Web Services, Then Turned Working With It Into $135 Million

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2016/12/14/embracing-amazon-helped-logicworks-raise-millions/#7ab5b56631cf

Lasers give insight into bird flight and other tech news

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38342441

Airbnb seeks to raise an additional $153 million

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbnb-funding-idUSKBN14601J

Tesla and SolarCity just made your roof obsolete

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-solar-roof/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=58141b406dd1f70007003ef4&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

Tables turned as vinyl sales overtake digital sales for first time in UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/06/tables-turned-as-vinyl-records-outsell-digital-in-uk-for-first-time 

United Internet buys Deutsche Telekom's Strato for 600 mln euros

http://www.reuters.com/article/deutsche-telekom-ma-united-internet-idUSL5N1EA1DK

We Are the Robots: SAP Moves Ahead with Machine Learning

http://news.sap.com/we-are-the-robots-sap-moves-ahead-with-machine-learning/

Sorgt die Digitalisierung für mehr Ungleichheit?

http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/news/sorgt-die-digitalisierung-fuer-mehr-ungleichheit--7233590.html

Digitalisation dictates Dimension Data’s end-user strategy in 2017

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/610842/digitalisation-dictates-dimension-data-end-user-strategy-2017/

Digitalisation – an enabler not disruptor says Siemens

http://www.itwebafrica.com/ict-and-governance/523-africa/237172-digitalisation--an-enabler-not-disruptor-says-siemens

Miners just starting on digitalisation

http://it-online.co.za/2016/11/25/mining-firms-just-starting-on-digitalistion/

Inside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/inside-silicon-valley-s-robot-pizzeria

„Der Krieg kommt“: Darum sieht Investor Frank Thelen schwarz für Deutschland

http://www.businessinsider.de/der-krieg-kommt-darum-sieht-frank-thelen-schwarz-fuerh-deutschland-2016-12

Facebook And Google Win From New FCC Privacy Regulations, And Everyone Else Loses

http://www.forbes.com/sites/howardhomonoff/2016/10/31/fcc-ad-privacy-ups-facebook-google-and-downs-everyone-else/#42f401972ba0

That Dubai hosts Robot Camel races

http://www.dubayblog.com/camel-racing-is-a-tourist-attraction-in-dubai/  

Indicator Industries: How They Show Digital Change

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2016/10/25/indicator-industries-how-they-show-digital-change/#6fdee3d0d678

We touch our phones 2,617 times a day, says study

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3092446/smartphones/we-touch-our-phones-2617-times-a-day-says-study.html

DIY Macroeconomic Modelling on a Raspberry Pi

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/09/16/diy-macroeconomic-modelling-on-a-raspberry-pi/

Commerzbank wird Techno­logieunternehmen: 1000 Mitarbeiter für Frankfurter „Digital Campus“geplant

http://www.it-finanzmagazin.de/commerzbank-wird-technologieunternehmen-1000-mitarbeiter-im-frankfurter-digital-campusgeplant-37691/

Small firms given cybercrime warning

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/small-firms-given-cybercrime-warning-j509lr5xm

Zeitarbeit und Werkverträge: Bitkom will Ausnahmen für Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Zeitarbeit-und-Werkvertraege-Bitkom-will-Ausnahmen-fuer-Digitalisierung-der-Wirtschaft-3504674.html

The Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF)

http://be-digital.berlin/the-einstein-center-digital-future/

50 new IT professorships

How Amazon Is Preparing to Disrupt the Auto Industry

http://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/how-amazon-is-getting-ready-to-disrupt-the-auto-industry.html

Hackers hit San Francisco transport systems

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38127096

Die massiven Störungen von Anschlüssen der Deutschen Telekom sind nach Erkenntnissen des Bundesamts für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) Folge einer weltweiten Attacke

http://www.swr.de/landesschau-aktuell/rp/cyber-angriff-auf-telekom-bundesamt-fordert-schutzmassnahmen/-/id=1682/did=18559590/nid=1682/fm5x4w/

Twitter fail: CEO Jack Dorsey accidentally suspended from platform

http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/twitter-dorsey-suspended/

What schools are doing to protect your child’s digital footprint

What schools are doing to protect your child’s digital footprint

http://wbay.com/2016/11/17/what-schools-are-doing-to-protect-your-childs-digital-footprint/

Gartner Highlights Key Pillars of a Resilient Digital Government

Gartner Highlights Key Pillars of a Resilient Digital Government

https://insights.samsung.com/2016/11/16/gartner-highlights-key-pillars-of-a-resilient-digital-government/

Telefónica to deliver IoT connectivity for Nestlé coffee machines

http://www.cbronline.com/news/internet-of-things/consumer/telefonica-to-deliver-iot-connectivity-for-nestle-coffee-machines/

3D-Druck und VR vor Durchbruch

http://www.linux-magazin.de/content/view/full/107533

Spielzeug-Roboter läuft in China Amok

http://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/kriminalitaet/id_79593796/spielzeug-roboter-laeuft-in-china-amok.html

Tagung Mensch-Sein 4.0 – Ist die Maschine der bessere Mensch?

http://medienstiftung.fachstelle-medien.de/blog/mensch-sein/

Wirtschaft 4.0 und die Folgen für Arbeitsmarkt und Ökonomie

http://doku.iab.de/forschungsbericht/2016/fb1316.pdf

IAB Forschungsbericht Aktuelle Ergebnisse aus der Projektarbeit des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 13/2016

Wirtschaft 4.0 und die Folgen für Arbeitsmarkt und Ökonomie

Szenario-Rechnungen im Rahmen der BIBB-IAB-Qualifikations- und Berufsfeldprojektionen

Master of Digital Transformation Management

http://www.goethe-business-school.de/masterprogramme/master-of-digital-transformation-management/

Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #179 - Bacteria

https://www.raspberrypi.org/weekly/bacteria/

Die Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt – Eine Zwischenbilanz aus der Sicht der Beschäftigten

Digitaler Stress?

http://www.dgb.de/themen/++co++68afe972-a4f4-11e6-8bb9-525400e5a74a

DGB-Index Gute Arbeit Der Report 2016
Wie die Beschäftigten die Arbeitsbedingungen in Deutschland beurteilen
Mit dem Themenschwerpunkt:
Die Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt – Eine Zwischenbilanz aus der Sicht der Beschäftigten

THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT: HOW SUSCEPTIBLE ARE JOBS TO COMPUTERISATION?

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf

Robots will take your job - Elon Musk

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/04/elon-musk-robots-will-take-your-jobs-government-will-have-to-pay-your-wage.html

On the history of digitalization

Digitalization in its origins can be traced back to the very beginnings of electronical computing in the 50ies of the 20th century.

To get some insights into this please explore www.computerhistory.org or George Dyson: Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Penguin Press Science).

Digitale Landwirtschaft - Bit für Bit

https://www.cropscience.bayer.de/de-de/stories/2014/digitale-landwirtschaft-bit-fuer-bit

Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft - Experte prophezeit: Roboter ersetzen bald Maurer und Ärzte

http://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/digitalisierung-der-wirtschaft-schon-bald-werden-maurer-und-aerzte-durch-roboter-ersetzt_id_6166713.html

Digitale Transformation: Status Quo in deutschen Unternehmen

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digitale-transformation-status-quo-deutschen-michael-kroker

Seniors embrace social technology

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/msu-wdd082516.php

Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft: Bauern verlangen mehr Breitbandanschlüsse

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Digitalisierung-in-der-Landwirtschaft-Bauern-verlangen-mehr-Breitbandanschluesse-3454772.html

Digitalization and Raspberry Pi – challenges and chances

http://databaselab.org/digitalization/cambridge2016.pdf

Carola Wondrak & Alexander Elsas at the Raspberry Pi Birthday Party in March 2016 in Cambridge.

The Logic of New Growth

https://www.facebook.com/HBR/videos/10154499028757787/

Columbia Business School Professor Rita Gunther McGrath discusses the challenges of driving new growth and innovation, managing uncertainty, and allocating resources to support your core business while exploring for the future.

A Bright Robot Future Awaits, Once This Downer Election Is Over

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-clinton-trump-silicon-valley/?utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

New use cases for the next frontier in payments

http://www.businessinsider.com/connected-device-payments-market-opportunities-top-stakeholders-and-new-use-cases-for-the-next-frontier-in-payments-2016-7

Pittsburgh's new artificially intelligent stoplights could mean no more pointless idling

http://www.businessinsider.com/stoplights-with-ai-no-more-pointless-idling-2016-10

Mapping Mars: Digital landscape shows contours

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/02/16/uk-mapping-agency-ordnance-survey-creates-cool-digital-mars-map.html

Samsung's fridge of the future will let you check spoilage from your phone

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10707894/samsung-smart-refrigerator-connected-fridge-iot-ces-2016

Collaborative workspaces and digital handshakes

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/10/27/collaborative-workspaces-and-digital-handshakes-ibmwow/

5 Benefits of Collaboration in the Workplace

http://www.ingrammicroadvisor.com/unified-communications-and-collaboration/5-benefits-of-collaboration-in-the-workplace

International Educators, Education Leaders to Meet in London for Annual Symposium

http://asiasociety.org/international-educators-education-leaders-meet-london-annual-symposium

Where Is Print’s Place in a Digital World?

http://whattheythink.com/articles/82796-where-prints-place-digital-world/

Join the Future Economy Roadshow

http://initiative-deutschland-digital.de/roadshow

Telefónica launches LUCA, its new Big Data unit for corporate customers

https://www.telefonica.com/es/web/press-office/-/telefonica-launches-luca-its-new-big-data-unit-for-corporate-customers

4 Banking Business Models For The Digital Age

http://fintechnews.ch/fintech/4-banking-business-models-for-the-digital-age/7566/

Free self-paced course on databases from Stanford University

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/about

Digital Durchstarten Darmstadt 15.11.16

https://digitaldurchstartendarmstadt.splashthat.com/

Digitalisierung an Schulen - Erklär das mal dem Lehrer!

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/bildung/digitalisierung-an-schulen-erklaer-das-mal-dem-lehrer-1.3207479

Vodafone says it'll launch NB-IoT network in EU early next year

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/20/vodafone_nb_iot_rollout_4_eu_countries/ 

In Senegal, Young Women Challenge Boundaries Through Coding

http://www.voanews.com/a/in-senegal-young-women-challenge-boundaries-through-coding/3514204.html

Monitoring-Report Wirtschaft DIGITAL

http://www.tns-infratest.com/WissensForum/Studien/monitoring-report_digitale_wirtschaft.asp:

"Der Digitalisierungsgrad der gewerblichen Wirtschaft in Deutschland liegt im Wirtschaftsindex DIGITAL bei 55 von 100 möglichen Punkten."

Die Studie zeigt detailliert für verschiedene Branchen den Digitalisierungsgrad in Deutschland - ein Ergebnis von 55% ist dabei wohl eher als nicht gut und deutlich ausbaufähig zu bewerten.

CodeWeekEU2016

http://codeweek.eu/about/

Monitors with integrated Raspberry Pi

NEC introduces monitors with integrated Raspberry Pi compute module:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-nec-display-near-you/

Cost of digital learning tools should not count

From Robert S Feldman. Sir, Anne-Marie Slaughter, in ‘A closed-off corner of learning set free by technology’, offers an insightful look into the rapidly changing higher education landscape ...
https://www.ft.com/content/ccb698a0-859e-11e6-8897-2359a58ac7a5

Arnoldshain Seminar XIV: A short history of digitalization

Carola Wondrak & Alexander Elsas: A short history of digitalization
Presentation at the Arnoldshain Seminar XIV for the roundtable on Digitalization & Economics

Report: Portion of 'gig economy' workers on digital platforms is still small

Even so, McKinsey concludes the nature of platforms like Etsy and Uber could transform the very nature of work and how companies are organized. 
http://www.zdnet.com/article/report-portion-of-gig-economy-workers-on-digital-platforms-is-still-small/

Digital Health Slides Down The Back Side Of The Hype Curve

Digital health (the intersection of digital technology and healthcare) has been a hot area for tech entrepreneurs and investors over the last five years. This year’s Health 2.0 conference, however, gave the strong impression that progress has slowed and digital health has entered the more-sober “make it work” stage of innovation.
... http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddhixon/2016/10/10/digital-health-slides-down-the-back-side-of-the-hype-curve/#978d8325f205

Die rätselhafte Stagnation der deutschen Wirtschaft

"Viele Unternehmen investierten massiv in die Digitalisierung und eine stärker automatisierte Produktion. Dafür seien allerdings neue Mitarbeiter nötig, die sich mit den jeweiligen Technologien auskennen. Die Kosten für diese Neueinstellungen fielen schon heute an, die Gewinne in Form höherer Produktivität allerdings erst in der Zukunft."

https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article158699607/Die-raetselhafte-Stagnation-der-deutschen-Wirtschaft.html

Investitionen beginnen immer mit einer Auszahlung und Rückflüssen in der Zukunft - auch im Fall der Digitalisierung. Das stellt natürlich kurzfristig eine Belastung dar, die aber langfristig das Bestehen sichert.

Insofern eher kein Rätsel!

Turkey blocks document sharing sites to stem incriminating email leak

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/turkey-censors-dropbox-onedrive-and-more-to-stamp-out-latest-government-scandal/#ixzz4MkxM7PES

Das Aus für Samsungs Galaxy Note 7: Ein Desaster mit Anlauf

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Das-Aus-fuer-Samsungs-Galaxy-Note-7-Ein-Desaster-mit-Anlauf-3345324.html

Digital Disruption: Dealing With The Flip Side Of Digital Transformation

Ask any C-level executive what’s top of mind for their organization today and “digital transformation” will rank high on the list. Over the last several years, transformation has become the go-to rationale for IT initiatives  ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2016/10/10/digital-disruption-dealing-with-the-flip-side-of-digital-transformation/#4ed50fbc1f5f

Arnoldshain Seminar XIV, 3 - 6 October 2016

With participants from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Spain, Indonesia, and Uruguay the 14th edition of the Arnoldshain Seminar took place in Córdoba and La Cumbre, Argentina.

Four roundtables, covering Energy, Digitalization, Central Banks, and Public Finance were held. More than 20 contributed papers and a keynote completed the program of the seminar.

The contributions to the roundtable on Digitalization can be downloaded here:

http://digitalization-lab.blogspot.com/2016/10/presentation-at-arnoldshain-seminar-xiv_9.html

http://digitalization-lab.blogspot.com/2016/10/presentation-at-arnoldshain-seminar-xiv_6.html

http://digitalization-lab.blogspot.com/2016/10/presentation-at-arnoldshain-seminar-xiv.html

  


 



 Roundtable on Digitalization

Astro Pi European Challenge

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/announcing-european-astro-pi-challenge/

Presentation at the Arnoldshain Seminar XIV: Data-Intensive Research and Economics

Ramiro H.Gálvez:
Data-Intensive Research and Economics

http://databaselab.org/digitalization/arno16RT Digitalizacion_Galvez.pdf

Plane evacuated - Samsung Phone about to burn

http://m.heute.de/ZDF/zdfportal/xml/object/45523322

Cloud for Global Good

http://www.cloudpolitik.de/#close

Denkschrift von Microsoft

Presentation at the Arnoldshain Seminar XIV: DIGITALIZATION and the Effects on Labour

Roland Eisen: 
DIGITALIZATION and the Effects on Labour 

http://databaselab.org/digitalization/arno16/Digitization, ARNO 2016.pdf

Presentation at the Arnoldshain Seminar XIV: A short history of digitalization

Carola Wondrak & Alexander Elsas:
A short history of digitalization

http://databaselab.org/digitalization/arno16/RTSHODCA.pdf

Tesla rammt Bus – erster „Autopilot“-Unfall in Deutschland

http://www.gruenderszene.de/automotive-mobility/tesla-unfall-bus-autopilot-deutschland

AI, IoT, Automation and Digital Transformation

http://marketing.bpm.com/acton/rif/9188/s-0159-1609/-/l-00a9:127b/l-00a9/showPreparedMessage?sid=TV2:lQD6fk4fr

Datenschützer decken schwere Mängel im Internet der Dinge auf

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Datenschuetzer-decken-schwere-Maengel-im-Internet-der-Dinge-auf-3334561.html

EU-Datenschützer fordert "digitales Clearing-Haus" für die Grundrechte

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/EU-Datenschuetzer-fordert-digitales-Clearing-Haus-fuer-die-Grundrechte-3331187.html

Bosch und SAP planen Kooperation für das Internet der Dinge

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bosch-und-SAP-planen-Kooperation-fuer-das-Internet-der-Dinge-3328823.html

Altiscale: SAP kauft US-Startup für 125 Millionen US-Dollar

http://forum.golem.de/kommentare/wirtschaft/altiscale-sap-kauft-us-startup-fuer-125-millionen-us-dollar/103945,list.html

Sind Banken bereit für „Blockchain“?

http://www.bearingpoint.com/de-de/news-room/pressemitteilungen/sind-banken-bereit-fuer-blockchain/

Umfrage: Unternehmen fordern offene Plattform für die Industrie 4.0

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Umfrage-Unternehmen-fordern-offene-Plattform-fuer-die-Industrie-4-0-3327135.html

Digital Economy and Society Index

https://digital-agenda-data.eu/datasets/desi/visualizations

Frighteningly Smart Office Building Knows Exactly What You Want

Frighteningly Smart Office Building Knows Exactly What You Want

https://www.fastcoexist.com/3052129/this-frighteningly-smart-office-building-knows-exactly-what-you-want-when-you-want-it

Digitalkonferenz: Moderne Bildung im 21. Jahrhundert

https://www.bvmw.de/politik/digitalkonferenz.html

Digitalkonferenz: Moderne Bildung im 21. Jahrhundert

Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2016
ab 15:00 Uhr

Botschaft der Republik Estland in Berlin
Hildebrandstraße 5, 10785 Berlin

Cisco on Internet of Things Security

IoT Security 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MMAK-dJm1o

IT-Business meets Science am 13.10.2016 an der TU Darmstadt

http://www.is.tu-darmstadt.de/bms_tud/beschreibung/bms.de.jsp

• Zeit: 15:30 bis 20:30 Uhr
• Teilnahmegebühr: Kostenlos
• Raum: S2|08 / 171 (Hörsaal Uhrenturm)
• Ort: TU Darmstadt, Campus Stadtmitte (Hochschulstraße 4, 64289 Darmstadt).

How the digital era is transforming work

https://issuu.com/lyonsdown/docs/fow?e=3376174/38925085

More? Check out Arnoldshain Seminar 2016!

SAP HANA express edition

http://go.sap.com/developer/topics/sap-hana-express.html

SAP introduces a free express edition of its in-memory database SAP HANA.

This resembles the introduction of free, scaled down versions of their respective datatabase management systems by Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft in 2005.

New era through digitizing countries

https://newsroom.cisco.com/feature-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1786789

Finalists 2016 UK Cyber Security Challenge

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450303717/Simulated-cyber-attack-in-London-adds-finalists-to-2016-UK-Cyber-Security-Challenge

Simulated cyber attack in London adds finalists to 2016 UK Cyber Security Challenge

Der Siegeszug des Online-Handels geht weiter – das Ladensterben auch

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Der-Siegeszug-des-Online-Handels-geht-weiter-das-Ladensterben-auch-3305401.html

Global Information Technology Report 2016

http://reports.weforum.org/global-information-technology-report-2016/

Fachveranstaltung "Digitalisierung und berufliche Qualifizierung" | DFKI

5. Oktober 2016 in Berlin:

http://vernetztes-lernen.b-f-b.net/projekte-und-veranstaltungen/fachveranstaltung-digitalisierung-und-berufliche-qualifizierung-dfki

IoT: Why it is best to jump on the bandwagon....

An interesting read about the new ways of integrating and using IoT.

Used with the permission of http://thenetwork.cisco.com/.

Cisco, Apple partnership 'comes to fruition' with iOS 10

http://www.zdnet.com/article/cisco-apple-partnership-comes-to-fruition-with-ios-10/

Digitalization

According to Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/digitalization/) "Digitalization is the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities; it is the process of moving to a digital business."

This definition focusses on the management or business perspective and can easily be widened onto a whole industry or economy and be analyzed in an economic way.

One of the first issues to solve then is how to measure the degree of digitalization of an industry or economy.

Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt: Beschäftigte wollen mehr Selbstbestimmung im Job

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Digitalisierung-der-Arbeitswelt-Beschaeftigte-wollen-mehr-Selbstbestimmung-im-Job-3301306.html

Die 3 technischen Mega-Trends der Digitalisierung

http://digitalrelevant.com/allgemein/die-3-technischen-mega-trends-der-digitalisierung/

IBM will "Brontobytes" an Daten zum Wohle der Menschen nutzen

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/IBM-will-Brontobytes-an-Daten-zum-Wohle-der-Menschen-nutzen-3313337.html

Why a slice of Raspberry Pi is good for Britain's digital economy

The Raspberry Pi is an essential component within education for a digital economy:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/08/why-a-slice-of-raspberry-pi-is-good-for-britains-digital-economy/

With more than 10 million units sold in 4.5 years, a great supporting community, and it's own magazine "The MagPi" in english and since a few days also in german it is valuable factor in learning the skills for a digital economy and the basis for projects defining digitalization.

The british Raspberry Pi Foundation is the driving force behind all this, more information on their website raspberrypi.org. 

Seven Questions for Bill McDermott (CEO SAP)

http://digitalrelevant.com/allgemein/seven-questions-for-bill-mcdermott-ceo-sap/

Digitalization and Security

In 2015 "The healthcare industry was the one most frequently attacked, speeding straight past financial services and manufacturing" according to IBM: https://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/se/en/sej03320usen/SEJ03320USEN.PDF

An important task for the tech part in digitalization is therefore obvious: providing adequate concepts and measures for securing the whole economy against the negative consequences of attacks on a global scale, not only per industry.

EU stellt sich beim Roaming selbst ein Bein

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/roaming-gebuehren-eu-stellt-sich-beim-roaming-selbst-ein-bein-1.3150505

Roundtable on Digitalization at the Arno XIV seminar

Following the roundtables about "Education and Technology: Developments and Perspectives" in 2014 and "E-Change" in 2015 the 14th Arnoldshain Seminar in Córdoba, Argentina, in October will host a roundtable on "Digitalization".

Participants are Ramiro H. Gálvez, Roland Eisen, Alexander Elsas, and Carola Wondrak.

The planned topics are:

• Carola Wondrak & Alexander Elsas - A short history of digitalization 
• Ramiro H. Gálvez - Big Data for economists 
• Roland Eisen - Digitalization and the labour markets

The roundtable will take place on the 3rd of October.

Auf die Gigabit-Gesellschaft folgt die Gigabyte-Gesellschaft

http://www.golem.de/news/ifa-und-politik-auf-die-gigabit-gesellschaft-folgt-die-gigabyte-gesellschaft-1609-123037.html

Talent for Cities: The Catalyst for a Digital-Ready Workforce in a Digital Economy

How will cities of the future realize the full potential of digitization and the Internet of Things if they don’t have the right army of talent to make it a reality? Who will build the cities of the future? The Meeting of the Minds http://cs.co/6054BN4z0 , Cisco, and the IoT Talent Consortium http://cs.co/6055BN4zF join forces to explore the convergence of digital transformation and cities, through the lens of human capital.

https://youtu.be/wPw8m54rS28 by Cisco

A Digital Single Market for Europe: Commission sets out 16 initiatives to make it happen

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-4919_en.htm

Arbeitsmarkt der Zukunft: Die Jobfresser kommen

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/arbeitsmarkt-der-zukunft-die-jobfresser-kommen-a-1105032.html

Raspberry Pi in Higher Education

Presentation at the Raspberry Pi Birthday Party in 2015

http://databaselab.org/digitalization/raspihighedu.pdf

10 Fakten zur Digitalen Transformation

http://news.sap.com/germany/10-fakten-zur-digitalen-transformation

Landwirtschaft in Australien: Hier hütet bald der Rinderroboter

http://www.spiegel.de/video/roboter-zum-rinderhueten-in-australien-video-1700198.html

A Math Nerd Wants to Stop the Big Data Monster

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-24/a-math-nerd-wants-to-stop-the-big-data-monster

Zukunft des Journalismus: Von der Absicht, eine Paywall zu errichten

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Zukunft-des-Journalismus-Von-der-Absicht-eine-Paywall-zu-errichten-3241761.html

VW-Digitalchef: Führerschein wird künftig überflüssig

http://www.t-online.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/id_78813832/wirtschaft-vw-digitalchef-fuehrerschein-wird-kuenftig-ueberfluessig.html

Tech Quartier - Fintech-Zentrum vor dem Start

http://www.fr-online.de/stadtentwicklung/tech-quartier-fintech-zentrum-vor-dem-start,26042926,34630416.html

Perfect markets

The model of a perfect market (cf. http://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Business_economics/Perfect_competition.html) is one of the most important in economics.

With digitalization this model can become real for more real markets, as more of them get closer to the model assumptions.

This should make economists happy?

Weniger Handel durch Digitalisierung und damit weniger Globalisierung?

http://m.welt.de/wirtschaft/article157825087/Die-Aera-der-Globalisierung-steht-vor-dem-Ende.html

Roundtable "E-Change" at the Arnoldshain Seminar in 2015

What digitized learning could mean for the future of education.

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Connected education

August 2016 • Issue 37 • What digitized learning could mean for the future of education.

https://newsroom.cisco.com/connected-education?POSITION=DynamicSignal&REFERRING_SITE=None&CREATIVE=0&COUNTRY=&POSTID=12bf209c-0689-4759-a687-3f772f412e38

Used with the permission of http://thenetwork.cisco.com/.

Angeblich massive Jobverluste durch Digitalisierung und Automatisierung

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Angeblich-massive-Jobverluste-durch-Digitalisierung-und-Automatisierung-3301229.html

A short history of digitalization: Project Cybersyn

Wikipedia contributors, "Project Cybersyn," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Project_Cybersyn&oldid=730164863 (accessed August 15, 2016):


"Project Cybersyn was a Chilean project from 1971–1973 during the presidency of Salvador Allende aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy. The project consisted of four modules: an economic simulator, custom software to check factory performance, an operations room, and a national network of telex machines that were linked to one mainframe computer."


Eden Medina, "Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile." Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006):571-606.

http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/edenm/EdenMedinaJLASAugust2006.pdf

Digitalization

Digitization is the technical process of converting analog media into digital files and the first step to digitalization.

The advantages of digital files (or streams) are the reduced amount of physical storage space and less bandwith need for transmission as compressing technologies can be applied to them.

The real strength is converting those raw files into more meaningful files. A good example here is scanning of documents. The result from digitization is only a picture made of pixels (bitmap) with no other additional information, only storage and transmission are possible.

By analyzing such a raw file and identifying characters, converting the raw picture file into a text document allows editing the text compromised of characters from a defined character set. This process is known a Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and used for banking transactions for many decades.

This concept can be generalized to identify objects like persons in the raw picture file. Google or Facebook have such technologies. It is the second step within digitization.

Already the first step has the potential to change industries, just think of the photographic industry which has changed to a nearly 100% digital industry within the last 15 years.

Looking at the history of digitalization those two steps can be traced back quite a long time, the big push in recent years came from the availability of mobile connected devices like smartphones. More precise the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 triggered this.

So connectivity via the Internet and especially mobile connectivity are the third step to digitalization.

Compared to the industrial revolutions which have occured in the last centuries (mechanization, steam power, electrification ...) the reach beyond the industrial or production sector into the everyday private life is the core difference between digitalization and the former revolutions.

This has the potential to change industries and economies.

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