Opendata.ch/2020 Forum – New Data Narratives
- Forum
23 June 2020, 08:30–16:35 @ Online
Organised by Opendata.ch, Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Open Government Data Office
The tenth Opendata.ch Forum took place on 23 June 2020 – because of the pandemic, for the first time fully online on Zoom, hosted by Andrea Allemann and Nikki Böhler. Under the theme «New Data Narratives» it asked what the data future should look like – and what can be done today to get there. Andreas Kellerhals welcomed the participants, Muriel Staub and Hannes Gassert gave an introduction to open data.
Out of 19 data visions submitted, eight were worked on in two workshops: first making the vision concrete and finding the pain points between vision and today, then naming those accountable and formulating action points. One pain point came up in almost every group: the lack of data literacy. In the final vote on 24 action points, data literacy training, good data publication with metadata and open licences, clear rules on data portability and cooperation between data users and providers came out on top.
Ruth Meier (FSO) spoke about implementing the OGD Strategy 2019–2023, Nikolai Thelitz (NZZ) about data journalism during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Open Data Student Award 2020 went to «Fahrgastzahlen VBZ interaktiv visualisiert» by Ueli Isenschmid, Anian Pleisch, Janik Sievert and Severin Spörri (ETH Zurich). The hyper talks shared successes and failures with open data, and an apéro roulette mixed the participants at the end.
Photos
Photo: Opendata.ch
Documentation and recordings
- Opendata.ch: #forumreport From Data Visions to Action Points (30.9.2020)
- Opendata.ch: Open Data Student Award 2020 Winners (17.7.2020)
- Opendata.ch: Open Data Stories 2019/20 (11.8.2020)
- Pain & Action Points aus den Workshops
- Resultate der Abstimmung über die Massnahmen
- Eingereichte Datenvisionen (Liste)
- Moderationsfolien Opendata.ch/2020 Forum
Programme
- 08:30–09:00
Good morning coffee
Informal arrival in Zoom breakout rooms.
- 09:00–09:10
- 09:10–09:20
- 09:20–09:40
- 09:40–10:00
Presenting the data visions
Out of 19 data visions submitted on the themes protecting, opening, quality and use of data, eight were chosen for the workshops and presented by their moderators:
- Filling Female Data Gaps (Nikki Böhler)
- Research Data Connectome (Sebastian Sigloch)
- Serving, not Spying (Maud Châtelet)
- Large Citizen Generated Open Data Sets (Christian Kunz)
- Better use of data in Switzerland (André Golliez / Florian Wieser)
- Solid basis for committed debate and innovation (Andreas Kellerhals)
- Open decentralized data storage (Lukas Hess)
- Shared ecosystem of energy data in Switzerland (Emilie Boillat)
- 10:10–10:55
Workshop 1: Owning Data Visions
In eight groups the visions were made concrete, the current situation described and the pain points between vision and reality noted – together in one document per vision. «Large Citizen Generated Open Data Sets» did not find enough participants, while «Better use of data in Switzerland» had two groups.
- 11:05–12:05
Presenting visions and pain points
One person per group presented the group’s work in two minutes, followed by questions from the plenary.
- 13:05–14:00
- 14:00–14:15
Keynote: Implementing the Open Government Data Strategy 2019–2023
The OGD office at the Federal Statistical Office coordinates the implementation of the strategy: supporting data publishers and users, opendata.swiss, controlling and monitoring.
Ruth MeierVizedirektorin, Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS) - 14:25–14:45
Open Data Student Award 2020
Six nominated works presented themselves, live or by video.
Winner (CHF 1000): «Fahrgastzahlen VBZ interaktiv visualisiert» – Ueli Isenschmid, Anian Pleisch, Janik Sievert, Severin Spörri, ETH Zurich (code)
Nominated:
- «Visualize the Right Thing» – Boris Djakovic, University of Bern
- «Ex-Tangente» – Franziska Suter, Tarik Mohamed, Helena Appenzeller, Clemens Widmer, ZHdK
- «Landwirtschaftliche Betriebe der Schweiz» – Laura Christina Utz, Rahel Luder, University of Bern
- «Efficient rail traffic with artificial intelligence» (Flatland Challenge) – Dano Roost, Ralph Meier, ZHAW
- «Studierende an Schweizer Fachhochschulen» – Luca Fluri, Koray Özkaynak, FHNW
- 14:45–15:05
Hyper Talks: Successes & Failures in Open Data
Before and during the Forum we collected success and failure stories (fourteen came in); a selection was presented in the plenary – from the canton of Zurich’s open data catalogue to the Covid-19 data on GitHub and cultural institutions that did not respond to an offer to help open their data.
- 15:20–15:35
Keynote: Data journalism during the Covid-19 pandemic
How the NZZ visuals team worked with data during the pandemic – and what that teaches us about open data.
Nikolai ThelitzDatenjournalist, Neue Zürcher Zeitung - 15:35–16:05
Voting on the action points
Three action points per vision, 24 in all, were presented; 27 participants rated their urgency. At the top: data literacy (111 of 135 points), good data publication with metadata and unified open licences (110), a clear legal basis for data portability (108) and cooperation between data users and providers (108).
- 16:05–16:15
- 16:15–16:35
Apéro roulette
Randomly mixed breakout rooms, reshuffled every seven minutes.
Read the original announcement
New Data Narratives
Because of the pandemic, the Opendata.ch/2020 Forum took place fully online on 23 June 2020 – a day of Switzerland-wide exchange between research, business, administration, politics, journalism and IT. Under the theme «New Data Narratives», participants worked out in workshops how society should collect, protect and use data for the common good, and derived concrete action points from data visions. Keynotes, hyper talks and the Open Data Student Award completed the day.
