Lugano Digital Days is part of the digitaltag.swiss initiative organised nationally by Digital Switzerland.

Lugano Living Lab is the partner of Digital Switzerland that coordinates the Digital Days in Lugano.

See the Digital Day Lugano 2019: Lugano Digital Day 2019

The Swiss Digital Days 2020 have brought the Swiss population closer to digitisation. For the fourth time now, interested parties have been able to find out more, take an active part in discussions on current issues and learn practical digital skills for everyday life. This year, particular attention was paid to how digitisation can contribute to making Switzerland more economically, socially and ecologically sustainable. In the first week of November 2020, more than 150 free events were scheduled to take place online at digitaltag.swiss/en/ and throughout the country. More than 20 venues attended: Aarau, Basel, Bern, Biel, Brig, Grenchen, Lachen, Lausanne, Lugano, Martigny, Neuchâtel, Olten, Schwyz, Sierre, Sion, Solothurn, St. Gallen, St. Moritz, Vaduz, Winterthur, Yverdon, Zermatt and Zurich. The Swiss Digital Days are also supported by over 60 partners from the economic, scientific and public sectors. The main partners are APG|SGA, Google, Ringier, SBB, Scholtysik & Partner and Swisscom.
About digitalswitzerland digitalswitzerland digitalswitzerland is a joint initiative bringing together the economy, the public sector and science to strengthen Switzerland as a leading international digital innovation centre. Digitalswitzerland is already active in various areas such as collaboration, skills transfer, education, start-up ecosystems and policy frameworks. The association includes more than 175 of the most renowned companies and organisations as well as innovative locations throughout Switzerland. The initiative was launched in 2015.

The city of Lugano has participated with several events organized in collaboration with some partners in the area:

• Speakers’ Corner: give voice to your ideas! A project aimed at valorising the best theses, research, field projects related to the themes of digitisation and/or technological innovation carried out by students and former bachelor and master students of Ticino. Speakers’ corner is a project promoted by the City of Lugano and L*3 in collaboration with FUS- Franklin University Switzerland, SUPSI- Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana, USI- Università della Svizzera italiana e L’Ideatorio-USI.
  The selected students attended the first workshop of the project, on 5 October 2020 at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, where web communication professionals, journalists, media experts and digital entrepreneurs alternated with suggestions and insights. The students then made a video, supported by specialists from the three universities, Lugano Living Lab, L’ideatorio and RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera.
  During the Swiss Digital Days, the students’ videos were made accessible to the federal Digital Days community and to all the public who participated in the online event.
• TAC: Technology, Environment and Skills. The aim of the project is to foster the development of skills in the collection and interpretation of environmental data and in teaching with the help of digital technologies. The experimental programme aims to bring children and citizens closer to the use of digital technologies in an original and playful way to increase environmental awareness and encourage the adoption of sustainable and responsible behaviour. During the Digital Days the video of the workshop in which citizens participated and in which the project was presented to the population was made available on the Digital Days platform.
• Discovering eSports On 5 October, a workshop dedicated to Esports was held, organised by SUPSI – Training and Learning Department (DFA) and Sportech. Participants were able to immerse themselves in the adrenaline-pumping reality of a Formula 1 race, play a football match with their favourite team and compete in other disciplines such as tennis or bowling through a special console equipped with a wireless device capable of detecting arm movement. A video of the workshop was made available on the Digital Days platform.
• Discover the features of the SBB Mobile app. On 5 October, SBB CFF SBB held a number of training courses in which participants were shown how they can quickly search through Swiss public transport timetables, buy a bus, tram and train ticket and learn how to use savings tickets. During the Digital Days the video of the workshop and talk with Roberta Cattaneo, SBB Regional Director, Region South, in which they discussed digitisation within SBB was made available on the Digital Days platform.
• Interacting with technology: what has changed and what will change? A multidisciplinary meeting with different professional figures, such as computer scientists, sociologists, and designers, to try to clarify some aspects of sociality increasingly conditioned by technology. During the Digital Days the videos of the various interventions and the final panel discussion were made available on the Digital Days platform.
• Cultura e Salute. Connected to shorten distances. A discussion on culture during Covid-19 to compare and analyze lessons learned from the emergency. A focus on the boost of digital cultural production and use during the lockdown, as well as on the ongoing transformations in cultural policy, in the supply and demand of culture, and in the evolution of artistic research.
  Event promoted by the City of Lugano, IBSA Foundation, in collaboration with L*3, SUPSI and LAC edu.

Other contents presented during the Digital Days 2020:

• Security Awareness: Ransomware, how it works and how to solve the problem. Promoters: Federazione svizzera per la formazione continua FSEA, Formati Academy, Conferenza della Svizzera italiana per la formazione continua degli adulti CFC
• Security Awareness: how to manage you passwords. Promoters: Federazione svizzera per la formazione continua FSEA, Formati Academy, Conferenza della Svizzera italiana per la formazione continua degli adulti CFC
• Security Awareness: phishing, how to recognize and how to avoid it. Promoters: Federazione svizzera per la formazione continua FSEA, Formati Academy, Conferenza della Svizzera italiana per la formazione continua degli adulti CFC
• A discussion on the Twitter sentiment analysis before and during COVID-19. Promoters: Franklin University Switzerland