Digital Switzerland Workshop National Data Strategy: Input Open Data

Primer on the open data movement in Switzerland and what it means for a national data strategy

1. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide! Open Data Movement and Open Government Data Strategy
2. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide! Hannes Gassert • Entrepreneur, with a leading web agency and a couple of startups • Strategy advisory • Board Member Pro Helvetia • Advisory Board Open Knowledge International • Founder opendata.ch
3. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide! I’m sorry.
4. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide! We hacked you.
5. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide! We see Open Data as: • An infrastructure resource • Accessible to anybody • For any purpose • Non-personal, machine- readable, vendor-agnostic • A crucial component for a digital economy that works for all involved
6. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide! Movement
7. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide! Movement Community
8. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide! Movement Community Enabler
9. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide! To move forward, we need two parallel tracks: A. Experiment
 Develop culture
 Find and fund prototypes
 Good enough is perfect 
 B. Consolidate
 Reliable collaboration
 Binding resource commitments
 Clear legal foundations
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10. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide! Let us move 
 beyond hacks.
 
 hannes@gassert.ch