Country Digital Acceleration Strategy

Switzerland has been constantly ranked one of the most innovative countries in the past years, with high living and healthcare standards, while having the 2nd most expensive healthcare system in the world. To further strengthen and maintain Switzerland's excellence in education, research, innovation and healthcare, our aim is to further support and develop the workforce by up-skilling to new job profiles to seize digital growth opportunities and at the same time optimize healthcare processes to manage costs by leveraging digital technologies.
Supporting the government objectives, our education and healthcare track will drive the adoption of digital skills by providing the necessary access to appropriate content and platforms including Networking Academy and CyberSecurity Academy to accelerate digitalisation of the healthcare and education sector.
 

As other modern societies, Switzerland is highly dependent on the continuous operation of critical infrastructures. Disruptions may have rapid repercussions for the population and can affect other critical infrastructure through cascading effects. Ten sectors are considered critical at the national level, most important are including energy, transport, information and communication technologies, public administration, public safety, and transport.

For instance, a large-scale power blackout in Switzerland will also disrupt the water supply, telecommunications, and rail transport. The goal of Cisco Swiss CDA program is therefore to support the Swiss government and private sector to maintain the operability of these critical infrastructures by providing, creating and leveraging new innovative solutions (AI, Cybersecurity, Automatization, Engineering etc) for these sectors.

We at Cisco are convinced that security is most effective when it works as a comprehensive, fully integrated system paired with underlying processes and skilled resources.
Understanding Switzerland’s decentralized structures in the public and private sector, Cisco aims to foster and be part of the local ecosystem to support the National Cybersecurity Strategy of the government.
Based on our state-of-the-art security technology we’ve created a CyberSecurity Academy in order to skill the next generation of Cybersecurity Specialists. Our aim is to support Switzerland's national interest in protecting information and communication infrastructure from cyber threats.

Switzerland is a "network of villages". With 89% of municipalities below five thousand citizens, each village has some common and some specific challenges and needs. We aim to create replicable next generation services for smaller communities and their citizens, in order to reduce desertification, improve quality of life and leverage technology as an enabler to solve some of their most pressing issues. These include citizen services, mobility, infrastructure, tourism and remote assistance. Aligned with federal and cantonal digital agenda, the world digital village objective is to bridge the digital divide, grant equal opportunity and non-discriminatory access to services.