Trade Unions, Digital Technologies and the Skill Question in Switzerland

A Tamed Transformation. Debating Digitalisation in Research and Higher Education Policy in Switzerland, 1998–2020

“…A central component of the political discourse on digitalisation in Switzerland is formed by the Federal Council's strategy documents, action plans and reports on the "Information Society Switzerland" (hereafter: ISS) and the SDS. Although there were certainly some prior technology policy initiatives after the Second World War (Straumann 2001;Geiss 2021), the Federal Council launched the first comprehensive strategy for dealing with "new communication and information technologies" at the end of the 1990s. The ISS was adopted in February 1998 and revised in 2006 and 2012, with goals, principles and policy areas being continuously adapted (Abun-Nasr 2009).…”