At the Swiss Digital Days 2022, technologies of AI-based art creation and the associated imprinting of NFTs will be addressed. The population can directly participate in the collaborative creation of the artwork via a touchscreen art generator.

Swiss Digital Day was created in 2016 by the cross-industry initiative digitalswitzerland to strengthen and positonize Switzerland as a global leader in digital innovation. Meanwhile, more than 220 association members and non-political foundation partners are working together to achieve this goal. The sixth edition of the initiative will tour 21 locations in Switzerland for the first time. The more than 300 events will offer the population the opportunity for information, exchange and discussions about digitalization. Among them is the creation of art with non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Collaborative artwork with NFTs

Visitors to the Digital Days are invited to participate in one of the world's largest collaboratively created works of art. By entering two digitization terms, an artificial intelligence generates a unique work of art. The organizers expect around eight to ten thousand participants, who can download the generated work via QR code and use it for personal, non-commercial use.

All the works created are also motifs for the next edition of Swiss Post's popular crypto stamps. All the works created over the seven weeks will be put together to form a large mosaic and auctioned off for a good cause at the closing event of the Swiss Digital Days 2022. The art generator will be available at various locations until October 23 to contribute to the world record attempt.

At the request of CVJ.CH Diana Engetschwiler, deputy director at digitalswitzerland, emphasizes that the sixth edition of the Swiss Digital Days will mainly take place under the topic "Together we shape the digital future". In addition, digitalswitzerland and Swiss Post are exploring the technologies of AI-based art creation and the related minting of NFTs.

"Crypto and especially NFTs are already established within the Swiss tech scene. Outside this bubble, however, among the general population, they still raise many questions. With swissp[AI]nt, we want to introduce the Swiss population to the subject area in a playful way, inform them about it and reduce fear of contact." - Diana Engetschwiler, Deputy Managing Director digitalswitzerland

Electronic proof of identification

As part of the Digital Days, the Federal Office of Justice is also presenting the state-recognized electronic identification document (e-ID). This promises to eliminate media discontinuity in administrative and business processes, which today cause unnecessary effort on the part of residents as well as on the part of the administration and businesses.

The Federal Office of Justice is discussing the draft consultation on the state-owned Swiss e-ID. The state acts as the issuer and ensures the operation of the necessary trust infrastructure. Users are to be given the greatest possible control over their data and the system itself (privacy by design) is to guarantee data protection. In addition to data economy, this should also enable decentralized data storage. The law would be formulated in a technology-neutral way in order to be able to react to developments, but should still comply with international standards so that the ID would also be accepted abroad.