Center for Digital Trust FHNW
We are an academic partner for managers, technology and industry experts as well as researchers aiming to share knowledge and best practices.
“Digital Trust means keeping our digital world safe and honest. This means ensuring secure online interactions by protecting data (cybersecurity), respecting privacy (data privacy), safely using new tech (emerging technologies), acting ethically (ethics and governance), managing risks, and following rules (compliance and audit).” – Center for Digital Trust
- Digital Trust is for us, the trustworthiness of digital technologies and data.
- Digital Trust is the basis of the digital economy regardless of which technologies or applications are involved and which data are processed. In the end, it is about treating digital data in a trustworthy manner so that we as private individuals or business partners can expect the highest possible level of protection and companies can (and want to) guarantee this.
- Digital Trust is important for Switzerland as a competitive location and for Europe! We use the proven concepts from governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) as well as from auditing as foundation.
Digital Trust is divided into five main areas for us:
- Cybersecurity & Resilience – the art of protecting networks, devices and data from unauthorized access or criminal use, and achieving resilience.
- Data protection – the strive towards protecting personal data from improper processing and securing the right to informational self-determination.
- Emerging Technologies – Emerging Technologies that have an impact on cybersecurity and Data protection (such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum computers)
- Digital Responsibility & Ethics – transforms ethics from aspiration into action, making digital trust both principled and verifiable.
- Governance – as a constitutive element of an organization’s value creation – by means of continuous overall consideration of all processes and responsibilities to manage risks effectively and efficiently.
Latest Posts
Introducing the Train-the-Trainer (TtT) model at the IHIET-AI 2026 Conference in Valencia, Spain
Congratulations to Franka Ebai, and Prof. Dr. Petra Maria Asprion from the Center for Digital Trust FHNW; Dr. Lebogang Mosupye-Semenya, and Dr. Ntswaki Matlala from the Johannesburg Business School (JBS); and Sergi…
Strengthening Digital Trust Through Research Exchange with Johannesburg Business School
This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Lebogang Mosupye-Semenya to Switzerland. The visit was funded by Swiss TPH.Dr. Mosupye-Semenya is Senior Lecturer in Digital Technology at the Johannesburg Business School (JBS) and…
Center for Digital Trust FHNW Shares Expertise on AI Compliance at the Swiss Digital Leadership Forum
On 31 August, more than 350 participants gathered in Olten for the fully booked Swiss Digital Leadership Forum, where artificial intelligence, digitization, marketing, leadership and other aspects of digital transformation were at the heart of discussions.During the event, Prof. Dr. Bettina Schneider…
Digital Trust 2030: Rethinking Trust in a Digital World
What if we could rethink Digital Trust from the ground up?That’s what our Digital Trust team explored in a fantastic Design Thinking workshop.We deliberately stepped away from today’s definitions and frameworks and asked: What should Digital Trust mean in 2030?In a world shaped by AI, cyber threats, digital dependencies, and emerging…
New International Project – Compass for Digital Responsibility in Families
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new international project, “Compass for Digital Responsibility in Families.” The project will officially begin on 1 October 2026 and will run for 18 months.Funded by Movetia, the Swiss National Agency for Exchange and Mobility in the education…