Podcast Digitalgespräch – Centre Responsible Digitality

Digitalgespräch is a ZEVEDI podcast for people who want to know first-hand what is happening in the field of digitality and what challenges scientists, politicians and society are facing. Each episode is dedicated to a selected aspect and topic. Two hosts – Marlene Görger and Petra Gehring – invite experts who share their knowledge talking about their current fields of work, projects and perspectives, putting the spotlight on complex fields of action and thus helping to lift the fog of big buzzwords. This podcast is in German. At the moment there is no English version or transcript available.

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Latest Episode

News on Quantum Computing

Episode 67 of Digitalgespräch, feat. Frank Wilhelm-Mauch of Saarland University and Forschungszentrum Jülich, 15 July 2025

Latest Episode

News on Quantum Computing

Previous Episodes

Digital Streetwork: Social Work in Digital Space

Much more than Technology: Understanding Search Engines

How Occupations are changing due to Digitality

‘Digitalchecking’ Laws and what follows: Getting Administration ready for Digitisation

Dynamic Digital Strategies for the European Broadcaster ARTE

Tokenisation of Carbon Credits: Blockchain for Climate Action?

IT Giants and Software Monopolies: The Universities’ Struggle for Digital Sovereignty

Infrastructures in Space for Digitality on Earth

Information and Disinformation – the State of the Online Public Sphere

AI and the Value of Human Authorship: The Battle over Copyright

A “Virtual Human Twin” made from Personal Data? On the Way to the Future of Healthcare

Tax Investigation with Artificial Intelligence: Panama, Pandora and more

The EU’s AI Act: How it came about and how it regulates AI

Arena of IoT: A Football Stadium as a Digital Real-World Laboratory

Digital Forensics

From policy debates to election campaigns: digital communication of political parties

Digitality and the Democratic Mandate of Public-Service Broadcasting

Critical Data for Science: Why a Research Data Act?

Modelling, Simulation, Optimization – the Digitalization of our Energy Supply Network

Precision Farming – the Example of Fruit Growing

Teaching and Learning after the Pandemic: The Difficult Transformation of Digital Schooling

Preserving Digital Works of Art: A Challenge for Museums

Daily newspapers: How are they changing in the digital transformation?

How computers manage to deal with language independently

Managing manifold data – the example of biodiversity research

Machine learning in environmental monitoring

What can small and large drones do? On the automation of airborne devices

Digital credit scoring: How data analytics decide to whom to lend and not to lend money

Biochemistry meets computer science: How we can store digital data in DNA

Looking into your own financial future: Digital pension transparency

Gaming culture for everyone: people, debates and a billion-dollar market

Digital playing fields in music production

Hacker Attacks and IT Management: Insurance against Cyber Risks

Rare Raw Materials and Electronic Waste: On the Materiality and Recycling Problems of Digitality

Death, mourning and legacy: What changes through digitality?

What is the Darknet and what happens there?

High-performance computing on issues of the future: The German Climate Computing Centre

Open source for the public sector: The example of Schleswig-Holstein

From data protection to data sovereignty: informational self-determination in the digital society

From cartoons to Instagram: “perfect pictures” impact children’s self and body image

Fully automated agreements? What are benefits of „Smart Contracts“?

AI in conflict: international norms for lethal autonomous weapon systems

What is Gaia-X?

Cookies, AirTags, metadata: Where does tracking lead?

Counting with physics: quantum computers in reality

Communicating, progressing, enabling: How does a Digital Minister make politics?

Likes, ratings and smart assistants – risks of a digital “consumer democracy”

From coin to crypto token: money, value and currency in the age of digitality

Smart urban development – and what municipal companies do for it

Genetic information in the digital age: the dispute over the Nagoya Protocol

Demand and reality: The state of data protection

Predictive policing and its consequences: data analysis in police work

DE-CIX and the architecture of the internet

Data carriers, data services, data traces: academic libraries and publishers in the digital transformation

Data surgery? Intelligent technology in the operating theatre

AI and Finance

After Bitcoin: rules in the world of blockchains and tokens

Emotet & co: the fight against cybercrime

Putting surveillance to measure

Digitalgespräch – from 26 May 2021