Open Food Data Hackdays

You are what you eat, what you measure: nutrition, too, is generating more and more data; production, distribution and consumption continuously produce data streams in which there is potential for great progress. Which food is exactly right for me right now? Is what’s on my plate climate-friendly, kosher, vegan, fair, compatible with my allergy?

Preparations for the second major event of food.opendata.ch are already in full swing. On 27 and 28 January 2018 in Lausanne and on 16 and 17 February 2018 in Basel, the «Open Food Data Hackdays» will bring together big data specialists and food experts, software developers, farmers, chefs and app designers, students, entrepreneurs and many others. For two days, they will devote themselves to so-called rapid prototyping around food data. Various data sources are currently being prepared, not least via the foodrepo.org platform of the project partner École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

More information at http://food.opendata.ch and on Twitter at @OpendataCH.

About Opendata.ch: Opendata.ch is part of the Open Knowledge Foundation and thus of a global movement that advances transparency and innovation, efficiency and participation by opening up data. Open data gives new actors new opportunities and is increasingly used by companies as a catalyst for open innovation processes. Opendata.ch is led by its president André Golliez, together with a board drawn from the media, technology and science.

About Engagement Migros: The Engagement Migros development fund enables pioneering projects in social change that break new ground and test forward-looking solutions. In the field of business, Engagement Migros supports numerous innovation programmes and collaboration platforms such as the Kickstart Accelerator, Impact Hub Zürich or the Basel coworking programme Fluxdock. Its impact-oriented funding approach combines financial support with coaching-style services in the Pionierlab. Engagement Migros is made possible by the companies of the Migros Group with around ten million francs a year and has complemented the Migros Culture Percentage since 2012.