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Give&Take: Sharing economy for senior citizens

6 January, 2016

Cooking, sewing and mowing the lawn. Many elderly people have skills that could benefit their peers. A new digital sharing platform will give senior citizens a platform for exchanging services - potentially improving quality of life and saving public costs.

New report: Danes are skilled, but often uncritical media users

media Research Digital Design Department Gitte Stald

18 December, 2015

Danes are generally competent media users, shows a new report by the IT University prepared for the Danish Agency for Culture and the Culture Authority and The Media Council. Many are, however, quite uncritical, and some groups have difficulties in keeping up with digitalization.

ITU-entrepreneur wins award for Open Data solution

Entrepreneurship awards ITU Innovators startups

14 December, 2015

Brand-new startup FILLR won the Danish Business Authority's first Open Data Challenge. The two founders will invest the prize money of DKK 100,000 in developing their company. But first one them has to hand in his thesis at ITU.

Students exhibited digital artworks

digital art computer games Digital Design Department Education

2 December, 2015

A sensitive robot and a womb simulation were among the creative installations on display when students from Digital Media and Design exhibited their final projects at ITU on December 1.

“Appropriate paranoia” at ITU’s first cryptoparty

student life IT security privacy

27 November, 2015

Workshop on online privacy drew a full house – two ITU-students organized the event.

Students collaborate with local hospital in wayfinding project

Collaborations Education Erik Grönvall design

25 November, 2015

Intricate hallways and confusing signage present challenges for patients, visitors and staff alike at Amager Hospital. As a part of their education in Service Design, students from the IT University developed new wayfinding solutions for the hospital.

Digitalization creates IT job opportunities in finance

business career Blockchain

18 November, 2015

The financial sector needs skilled workers that can help the industry to keep up with rapidly developing technologies. On 17 November, companies from the financial sector met with ITU students for Finance IT Day 2015.

The Death of Business as Usual

Research

18 November, 2015

The development of ICT is changing business in every corner of the society. With the establishment of the new research group, TIME, the IT University of Copenhagen is strengthening its efforts to become a leading institution in the areas of innovation, management and value creation with IT.

Researchers: Digitalization is critical to the continued success of the LEGO Group

Collaborations Research management business Pernille Kræmmergaard

29 October, 2015

A comprehensive digitalization plays a key role in the LEGO Group’s continued journey which stretches from near-death experience to record profits, according to a new paper by digitalization researchers Pernille Kræmmergaard and Omar A. El Sawy. The paper has just won first place in the 2015 SIM Paper Award Competition.

Innovation game gave students insight into business processes

Education business Business IT Department

28 October, 2015

A group of 60 students from Digital Innovation & Management at the IT University went behind the scenes at the clothing company Getro. The project resulted in a number of suggestions for how the company can improve its business processes - and gave the students new insights on the challenges of a real company.

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