We are excited to announce that the paper "Towards Website X-Ray for Europe's Municipalities: Unveiling Digital Transformation with Multimodal Embeddings" by ZHAW researchers Jonathan Gerber, Jasmin Saxer, Bruno Kreiner, and Andreas Weiler was accepted at the iiWAS 2024 (International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence ).
Jasmin Saxer from the ZHAW Institute of Computer Science took the top spot with the project "DIGILOG", which is automatically analyzing and monitoring the digital transformation of European municipalities. The resulting monitoring platform will be accessible to researchers and practitioners worldwide and yield policy-relevant knowledge concerning...
At the EGPA 2024 conference in Athens, Jakob Kühler, one of our colleagues at DIGILOG, received the PhD Symposium best paper award for his paper titled "Stories of Digital Change: Integrating Institutional Logics and Sensemaking Perspectives".
DIGILOG (Digital Transformation at the Local Tier of Government) is an international, interdisciplinary research project on the state of digital transformation at the local tier of government in Europe. Renowned scientists from ZHAW, the University of Potsdam, and Vienna University of Economics and Business are collaborating to systematically record the digital transformation process in local governments and analyze its effects.
The collected data will be triangulated by
applying three different methods to achieve the highest possible significance
of results.
