A month ago Swissdox has launched Swissdox essentials - a platform that grants access to nearly 220'000 Swiss students and citizens to the Swiss media database. This archive includes articles since 1911 from 280 different news paper sources in Switzerland. Currently, about 25 million articles are available with a continuous growth of 1.7 million articles every year. Thank you very much @Swissdox AG for the trust and thanks to my team at @Phoenix Systems AG that made this possible.

In my opinion, this is one of the most relevant digitization projects going on in Switzerland. Knowledge is power, and it's good to see that we have the environment that allows us here in Switzerland to share this kind of information with everyone. I believe strongly in proven tech solutions, as well as in trusted legal and government systems that are in place in Switzerland. As a visionary software and systems architect, I always try to apply these advantages to solutions for our clients in the virtual space.

„(For) knowledge (itself) is power“

Since mankind invented printing, it has been possible to encapsulate and spread knowledge. As history has shown, this has not always been easy or even dangerous. More than ever before, society must deal with technology and automatically processed data. The digitization of society is a big topic, algorithms as well as big data systems determine many parts of our daily life. Even more so it’s important to understand and protect these systems and grant access to unbiased knowledge.

In my eyes it's an absolute necessity that citizens and in this particular case the next generation have access to newspaper articles of the last 110 years. If you would want to do a research on a specific topic, it’s a big advantage that you can easily access news sources of the past.

All major Swiss universities, Swiss universities of applied sciences and libraries of ZHAW, of the University of St. Gallen or of the Canton of Aargau just to mention a few, are already providing this service for all the students and citizens through their intranet.

Good job and keep it up!