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Already a few years ago, Sigrid Hechensteiner, Head of Communications, and Dietmar Laner, Head of IT, were big advocates of digitization in communications and data processing. Today, they view the top...

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Already a few years ago, Sigrid Hechensteiner, Head of Communications, and Dietmar Laner, Head of IT, were big advocates of digitization in communications and data processing. Today, they view the topic with somewhat more critical eyes: the challenge is not purely technological, it’s sociopolitical too. 

"Today, science communication is challenged more than ever. On the one hand, disinformation must be prevented, and on the other, dialog with dissenters must be maintained."   

"In the future, it will be possible to leave process steps in science to AI. The question we will then have to ask ourselves is primarily an ethical one: Which decisions do we want to leave to software and which ones do we want to execute ourselves?"   

As a conference interpreter and science journalist, Sigrid Hechensteiner has always been fascinated by the translation of one language into another, this also extends to the translation of completely technical language into generally understandable and interesting science stories. She has been working for Eurac Research in communication projects since 1996, and as Head of Communication since 2019. In her private life - her husband is Canadian - she has been commuting between Quebec and South Tyrol for 20 years, with her two daughters and the family dog in her luggage. When she wants to really switch off, she paddles away from Wifi in a canoe in Canada's North. 

Dietmar Laner studied operational and medical informatics at the Vienna University of Technology and has been the IT director of Eurac Research and unibz since the very beginning. His heart's project is the South Tyrol Science Network, which provides IT services to all South Tyrolean stakeholders to drive cutting-edge research. Outside of work, Dietmar Laner is an avid foodie. When he's not sitting in an Italian trattoria, he likes to pick up the wooden spoon himself. He is currently trying to conjure up the taste of meat in vegan cuisine. 

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