Shape My City – Lucerne, the Results!
Almost in one breath following the Smart city Lab Lenzburg, we were happy to support the student team of the Master of Applied Information and Data Science at the HSLU in their organization of the Shape My City Hackdays – Luzern, a Hackathon revolving around smart city projects for Lucerne and its inhabitants. Around 110 […]
Zeitfresser Datenbeschaffung: open by default bitte
Dieser Text von Dr. Vera Eichenauer erschien zuerst in der Kolumne «Das letzte Wort» im Bulletin der Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Meine internationalen und Schweizer Gesprächspartnerinnen zeigen sich vielfach überrascht, wenn ich berichte, dass die Schweiz, was die Offenheit ihrer Regierungsdaten (Open Government Data, OGD) anbelangt, deutlich hinter der Weltspitze liegt: im Global […]
Energy Data Hackdays 2020, the results!
The excitement before the new edition of the Energy Hackdays in Brugg was a bit special this year. Besides the usual sweet little heart pinch of the leap into a new group, the discovery of the challenges and the satisfaction of seeing this particular event repeating for the second time in Brugg, there was happiness […]
Open Data Student Award 2020 Winners
On June 23, 2020, we announced the winner of the 2020 Open Data Student Awards at the Opendata.ch/2020 Forum. For the third consecutive year, we called for students to enter the Open Data work they created as part of their education. First of all, we would like to thank everyone who entered one of their […]
Open Data – the new Business Innovation Catalyst
We’re excited that Heidi Gautschi, Gianluigi Viscusi and Christopher Tucci from EPFL took the first step in evaluating the concrete value of open data for business and innovation. In their newly conducted report on the role, value and impact of open data for businesses within the food system, they: outline exemplary companies and institutions publishing […]
