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 […]
Five Projects Selected for the Prototype Fund
The Following five projects have been selected by the Prototype Fund Jury to be funded for the first Swiss edition of the Prototype Fund. They will each receive up to CHF 100,000 in funding, at least 5 hours of individual and need-based coaching (e.g. in coding or user-centered design) during the funding period, amongst others. […]
GLAMhack 2020 – an online success
GLAMhack 2020 – an online success The 6th edition of the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon, carried out as an online event, took place on 5 and 6 June 2020 and gathered people from all over the world! The teams worked on 15 exciting projects, which are shortly summarized here. 1914 in a Timeline puts newspaper […]
On the Way to the Digital Utopia
This year’s Opendata.ch/2020 Forum – New Data Narratives is all about the future of open data. But when we talk about the digital future, too often the conversation drifts off into very bleak, dystopian scenarios: transparent citizens, US Conglomerates leeching on our personal data and ubiquitous control enabled by Artificial Intelligence. But we refuse to […]
Open Data Student Award 2020 Ausschreibung
Open Data Student Award 2020 Offene Daten sind eine unabdingbare Folge der Digitalisierung. Darum haben sich die Vereine Opendata.ch und CH Open entschlossen, einen Studierenden-Preis zu stiften. Dieser Preis steht für herausragende Anwendungen von offenen Daten in Lehre und Weiterbildung. Als Sponsoren mit dabei sind die SBB, die Swisscom, Die Post sowie Netcetera. Mit dem […]