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2021-07-08:
The recent pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation in society and the economy, what reorientations do we expect in the medium term? Will crisis effects predominate or will impulses for innovation emerge from ‘disruption’? Experts tried to answer this in a panel discussion on the subject of “Covid: Digital Economy” as part of AGIT 2021 (AGIT 2021 | re.connecting spatially).
The space-time question emerged particularly clearly in the pandemic: where did the virus occur and when? How did it spread? Via which routes and in which time periods? In addition to the medical disciplines, geoinformatics has made significant contributions in dealing with the pandemic. In a panel as part of the symposium AGIT 2021 – Applied Geoinformatics At the invitation of Josef Strobl (University of Salzburg), a high-level panel discussed questions of infrastructure, the quality and availability of data, “remote innovation” and also how politics can create appropriate framework conditions.
The podium agreed that much will remain: hybrid formats about or Homeoffice, and that the Infrastructure quality that has increasing importance decentralized data ecosystems can ultimately increase quality and resilience. But also that with the new possibilities the complexity increase in many ways and thus the “best of both worlds” is desirable but will not be easy to achieve.
The panel of the panel discussion:
- LR Andrea Klambauer: LR for the departments: Housing, child care, science, integration, women, youth and generations, families, adult education, public libraries
- Hon.-Prof. Dr. Brigitte Bach, COO (Chief Operating Officer) and also responsible for the #forward growth program at Salzburg AG
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katja Hutter, professor at the Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Business Administration at the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Axel Polleres, Professor and Institute Director for Data, Process and Knowledge Management at WU-Vienna (connected via Airmeet).
Moderation: Siegfried Reich, Managing Director, Salzburg Research
From left to right: Katja Hutter (University of Innsbruck), Brigitte Bach (Salzburg AG), Siegfried Reich (Salzburg Research), Andrea Klambauer (State Councilor for Science, State of Salzburg); not in the picture: Axel Polleres (WU Vienna) © Hans-Christian Gruber
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