Country Digital Acceleration Strategy
Create value for the country, its economy and citizens
What is Country Digital Acceleration?
Switzerland recently became part of Cisco's Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program - a long term strategic partnership with national and regional leadership, industry and academia to accelerate the national digitalisation agenda and create new value for the country, its businesses and its citizens.
This plan, developed in Switzerland, articulates the modernisation of national infrastructures. It includes the creation of new jobs while ensuring economic equality through re-skilling, the digitalisation of public services and the increase in innovation capabilities, to capture the social and economic opportunities ahead of us. This will be done in such a way that privacy and security come first in order to promote trust in technology. Our aim is to deliver on common welfare, quality of life, sustainable development, cohesion between regions, cultural diversity, national and international security and stability in the digital world. If you have any questions, please contact us here.
Modernize national infrastructure
Foster innovation, skills and education
Create new jobs and digitize public services
Ensure safety and security
Cisco Switzerland Digital Acceleration programme aligns to the Swiss Government's Digital and Industrial Strategies with 4 focus areas :
Healthcare and Education
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.
National Critical Infrastructure
Our aim is to better secure the Critical National Infrastructure, contain operational costs and improve customer experience.
Connectivity drives productivity and innovation, and is the physical underpinning of a digital nation. One of the areas where significant productivity gains can be realised is transportation.
CyberSecurity and Defence
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.
World Digital Village
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.
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Your Education Matters
Did you know that only 1 out of 10 employees have sufficient digital skills for
today's job requirements? Our education aims at driving the adoption of digital skills by
providing the necessary access to appropriate content and platforms including
Networking Academy and CyberSecurity Academy.
Cisco CyberSecurity Academy
For the first time in Switzerland, Cisco offers a comprehensive Cybersecurity Program that leads to the Swiss Federal Diploma. This program aims to bridge the gap caused by the frightening shortage of Cybersecurity Specialists we are facing in the Swiss market.
Cisco Networking Academy
Cisco Networking Academy courses are available on educationdigital.ch for free and enable you to gain basic and advanced knowledge in the areas of networking, security, Internet of Things (IoT) and Linux fundamentals. In addition, business-related courses, such as entrepreneurship and digital skills, are also available.
Our Security Matters
From the Cybersecurity and Defence perspective, the program is supporting projects aligned to the pillars
from the government’s Cyber Strategy.
More to come soon.
Your Village Matters
Attracting people and economic development to villages through new digital services and strategies.
Take a look into the future!
More to come soon.
Our National Infrastructure Matters
Switzerland is already a key transport hub in Europe. We will expand that lead with digital intelligence.
More to come soon.
What is Digital Transformation?
Digital Transformation is disrupting organizations in every industry at a global level. Here in Switzerland we are committed to harnessing Digital Transformation to break down barriers between people, processes and technology so that organizations can create new products and services, and find more efficient ways to run their business.
By bringing together connectivity, IT security, automation, and analytics, organisations of all sizes can:
• Create new customer and citizen experiences
• Transform business models
• Empower workforce innovation
• Unlock the power of data
- For an SMB, Digital Transformation means sustaining flexibility for rapid growth, accelerating competitive advantages, and remaining as agile as if they still were a start-up.
- For a CIO, Digital Business Transformation is about becoming a business partner and leader of the transformation. By making digital disruption a priority, CIOs can change boardroom perceptions about IT. Instead of being seen as a restrictive and costly overhead, IT can be the enabler and differentiator of your organisation’s strategy.
- For a country, Digital Transformation means improving productivity, innovation and quality of life across the whole country. This is at the heart of Cisco's Swiss Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) Strategy. CDA is a pioneering strategy in partnership with government, business and academia to harness digital technologies to help realise the vision of a digital Switzerland.
Contact our Digital Acceleration Experts
Garif Yalak,
Head of Healthcare and
Education,
CDA Switzerland
Joel Curado,
Head of World Digital Village,
CDA Switzerland
Christoph Koch,
Head of Cybersecurity and
Defence,
CDA Switzerland
Erick Caron,
Head of National Critical
Infrastructure,
CDA Switzerland