Ten Years After the SZ Article: Has Yverdon-les-Bains Delivered on Its Smart Lighting Promises? Exactly ten years ago, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described Yverdon-les-Bains as a small city with big ambitions: intelligent s...
When good money disappears – what this CBDC experiment really shows A critical look at an SNB working paper Central Bank Digital Currency and Gresham's Law: An experimental analysis The Swiss National Bank is conducting...
When Regulation Costs More Than the Problem: The Questionable Logic Behind Swiss DNS Blocks A Critical Look at ESBK, EFK and the Economics of Inefficient Gambling Control The report by the Swiss Federal Audit Office (EFK...
from Headscarf Bans and Milk Chocolate 🎧 Now also for reading: This podcast episode as transcript 150 years ago, Daniel Peter laid the foundation for a global myth with the first modern milk chocolate – and for Switzer...
Storage Crisis, Hyperscalers, Switzerland: What's True – and What's (Still) Storytelling? The starting point is the Clarus News post "Storage Crisis in Europe: Hyperscalers Profit, European Data Centers Fight for Surviva...
European Commission – Apple NFC Commitments Gladly! Here is a clean, clearly structured Markdown document, completely without formatting errors, with source references, so you can save it directly as .md. Analysis: WEK...
Swiss Government Cloud: Audit, Cloud Levels and Federal Effort Author: Federal Finance Control / Eidgenössische Finanzkontrolle (EFK) Source: Audit Swiss Government Cloud – CDF-25155 Publication Date: 10.10.2025 Reading ...
Bavaria Digitalizes – But Please Not Too Much Open Source A commentary on a Heise article that unintentionally reveals more about political priorities than about technology. 1. Overview – What's This All About? Author...
The Digital Federal Prank -- Why the DVS Switzerland Deserves a Museum Welcome to digital Switzerland -- the country where even the future has a backlog. The Digital Administration Switzerland (DVS) was once founded to b...
1. Overview – "What's this all about anyway?" Author: Andy Mueller Source: SRF / Tagesschau Original title: "Soldiers should take ammunition home again" Date: 20.11.2025 Read on: 21.11.2025 Reading time: approx. 4 minut...