Digitalization of the state: We don't think of the citizen as a customer

22. 5. 2025 / Martina Fojtů

Digitalization, efficient state, simplified communication with authorities. In technology circles, these words are more frequently used than the absence of snow among ski lifters. But the digitisation of state administration keeps failing to arrive. Why? Where is the problem? And don't we sometimes have unreasonable and unrealistic expectations? Tomáš Rutrle talks about all this in this interview. He is in charge of the digital solutions for the modern state section at Aricoma and has a great deal of experience. Because he was already on the topic of digitalization at a time when the Czech Republic was just beginning to use the Internet en masse.

Read more

Newest articles

From 3D liver model to virtual reality. Connecting organ donors and recipients faster

11. 2. 2025

David Sibřina has something at work that I'm sure none of you have. It's a 3D print of a liver with all its protrusions and projections, and it's a bit of a symbol. The researcher, who works at IKEM as head of the augmented and virtual reality surgery planning group, actually started working on incorporating virtual reality tools into the surgical process the moment it became clear that even modern planning techniques using just 3D prints weren't enough.

Czechs want to help, but it has to be simple. So we made it possible for them

7. 1. 2025

The need to adapt, to deal with server and database capacity, to scale. When you say charity, you don't associate any of those words with it. But David Procházka, the founder of Donio, the largest and well-known donation platform in the Czech Republic, doesn't tend to think that way. On the contrary, he talks about Donio as a technological tool that facilitates help. In the interview, he explains what it entails and what has made it so popular. He and his team have managed to solve old problems much more efficiently using new tools.

Let's ask children not only about how was school but also what’s up online

30. 12. 2024

It is pretty hard to imagine a job, a school day or life in general without computers, phones and technology in general. But daily exposure to them has an impact on people and contributes to shaping their lives. How can we make the most of them, the positive side, and not be influenced by the negative side? This is what psychologist David Šmahel has been researching at Masaryk University (MU) for years. In contrast to others, you will not hear apocalyptic scenarios from him. Instead, he speaks engagingly about all the consequences of the digitalisation of life that we are still unaware of. 

Ethical hackers: the volume of serious risks does not decrease

17. 12. 2024

Aricoma has been involved in cybersecurity since it started its business in the first half of the 1990s. It actively examines clients' information security levels and the resilience of their technology. Clients often need to find out how secure their business perimeter is and what they need to work on. This is aided by a community of experienced penetration testers who simulate a cyber attack on a client's system. At both the network and application level, they can test the ability to withstand real-world cyberattacks from the external environment. But that's not all.

ELITA. If you are interested in where today's technology, business, IT and maybe even the world is heading. Powerful stories, strong personalities and insider information.

The future of AI? ChatGPT-based language models for businesses

22. 11. 2024

Chances are, you're already familiar with it and are no stranger to the word "prompt". The use of generative AI tools has massively increased in recent months, but they can't be used everywhere. Sensitive corporate data doesn't belong in the public domain. So people are looking for ways to create protected systems that allow analysis and generation of information without data leaks. Aricoma's specialised team is working on this and has therefore also teamed up with the mathematics institute of the Brno University of Technology.

We kept getting rid of chip production in Europe, now we struggle to get it back. But it is worth it

17. 9. 2024

"We've been carrying chip debt since the 1970s, Europe was happy to get rid of chip production because it's water and electricity-intensive. And now we're slowly and painfully catching up. At the same time, we will need more and more chips, and even more sophisticated ones than today," says Tomáš Pitner, professor at the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University and head of the research centre, about the situation in which the Czech Republic and Europe find themselves. But in exactly which way?