Digitization Monitor 2023
Ahead of the 2023 Swiss elections, the Digitization Monitor surveyed the candidates’ positions on digital policy and provided voters with an online comparison of their political profiles.
Factsheet
- Schools involved Business School
- Institute(s) Institute for Public Sector Transformation
- Funding organisation Others
- Duration (planned) 01.11.2022 - 31.12.2023
- Head of project Dr. Daniel Schwarz Badertscher
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Project staff
Jan Fivaz
Kristelle Plüss -
Partner
Stiftung Mercator Schweiz
digitalswitzerland
Die Schweizerische Post AG
asut Schweizerischer Verband der Telekommunikation
Pour Demain
Schweizerische Akademie der Technischen Wissenschaften
swissICT
Universität Genf
Universität Zürich - Keywords Digital policy, Digital society, Elections, Digital profile
Situation
More than 6,000 candidates ran in the 2023 elections. However, little was known about their positions on digital policy, even though these issues have a crucial impact on the country’s future. The Digitization Monitor brought transparency to this issue and also put important digitization topics on the agenda.
Course of action
In collaboration with the online voting advice tool smartvote and numerous partners from academia, business, and civil society, a digital policy questionnaire was developed that all candidates could complete. Voters were then able to compare their own digital policy profiles with those of the candidates on the online platform https://digitalmonitor23.ch/.
Result
The main outcome was the launch of the voting advice tool at https://digitalmonitor23.ch/. An overview of the project and an academic analysis of the positions on digital policy can be found in the final report (in German).
Looking ahead
It remains uncertain whether the challenges of digitisation will be adequately addressed by the parties and media before the next elections in 2027. From today's perspective, it is therefore foreseeable that a tool for transparency and opinion-forming in this area will also be necessary in the next elections.
