Opendata.ch/2015 on 1 July in Bern: between the principle of hope and the law
The Opendata.ch association invites all open data activists and everyone interested to its annual conference on 1 July 2015 at the University of Bern. The opening speech will be given by Bernese cantonal councillor Beatrice Simon. With Rufus Pollock and Pavel Richter of Open Knowledge International, as well as Ton Zijlstra, open data expert at the World Bank, top names of the international open data scene will also be guests in the Swiss capital. The main question behind it all: where does Switzerland stand on open data and transparency, and what comes next — the principle of hope, or only a new law?
Switzerland may not -yet- play in the global open data Champions League, but the local open data movement has no need to hide. For five years, the Opendata.ch association has regularly organised the make.opendata.ch Hackdays with hundreds of participants, launched successful political initiatives and held an open data conference every year. This year’s edition, which takes place on Wednesday, 1 July 2015 at the University of Bern and is co-organised with the Research Centre for Digital Sustainability, offers an exciting mix of talks, workshops, an Open Data Hack Room and an intense political panel to close.
With Rufus Pollock, founder of Open Knowledge, Pavel Richter, CEO of Open Knowledge (formerly Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland) and Ton Zijlstra, open data expert at the World Bank, no fewer than three leaders of the international open data scene will be guests in Bern. “Open Data und das Prinzip Hoffnung” (Open data and the principle of hope) is the title of the talk by Andreas Kellerhals, Director of the Swiss Federal Archives and commissioning party of the OGD Switzerland project – one to look forward to. Parallel workshops on topics such as “Open Land Grabbing Data”, “Open Data Journalism” or “National Data Infrastructure” will spoil participants for choice and promise a busy afternoon. The conference closes with a keynote by Prof. Dr Isabelle Häner and a panel on the question “Data legislation – where to?”, with guests including the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner Hanspeter Thür, followed by a networking apéro.
Students can attend the conference free of charge. For everyone else, the day ticket costs 150 francs, or 200 francs combined with a one-year membership of the Opendata.ch association
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