Digital Resilience has many aspects: Dealing with the loss of your devices, staying up to date in a rapidly developing world, maintaining access to your own applications and data, confidence in your access, fending off and recovering from viruses attacks and more. Together with you, we want to explore all of these perspectives. Together with you, we want to explore all of these perspectives. You can expect more online events leading up to April which will already give you insights into various perspectives. At the congress itself, we will invite experts from academia, industry, media and administrations to expand on their persepctives and we will welcome speakers from our online events to add onto their thoughts. We look forward to a great discussion. You can already save the date in your calendar by pre-registering on it-congress.ch! That way you will be first in line once registration opens up.
For our Kickoff Event, we invited two speakers, Vasily Suvorov and Prof. emer. Ernst Hafen, to start us off. They looked at a conceptual framework for confronting the challenges that come with developing digital resilience and the evolution of the Digital Patient Dossier in Switzerland respectively.
Vasily Suvorov described the many challenges that the increasingly accelerating digitalisation puts in front of us and brought them together in a conceptual framework. How do we deal with our ever-growing reliance on interconnected devices, machines and services? Can we still trust our reality as Generative ML tech becomes more and more realistic and can easily fool our senses? Can we remain in control as we are becoming more and more defined by and dependent on our data, which tends to expand to all aspects of our lives? How can we cope with Cybersecurity challenges made worse by the proliferation of automated fraud technologies? Finally, in times of growing nationalism, how can we ensure Digital Sovereignty but remain open for collaboration?
Bringing a concrete example of digital resilience in action, Prof. emer. Ernst Hafen gave us a look into how a Digital Patient Dossier makes you more digitally resilient. Every day we exchange personal data for free services. Tech companies now know more about us than our doctors, families, or partners. How can we escape this surveillance capitalism and regain our digital sovereignty? The path forward: exercising our right to obtain copies of our own data and storing it securely in personal data accounts. As the primary aggregators of our own information, we could generate more economic value than tech companies currently extract from our fragmented data. By advancing this vision for our most precious and sensitive information, health data, we can transform Switzerland's Electronic Patient Dossier (EPD) into a structured, shared medical record where patients control access. This becomes the foundation for a Swiss Health Data Space enabling anonymized research data use.
You can watch the full recording of the event here:
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