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

Transcript

1. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide!
   Open Data Movement
   and Open Government
   Data Strategy
   

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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
   

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3. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide!
   I’m sorry.
   

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4. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide!
   We hacked you.
   

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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
   

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6. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide!
   Movement
   

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7. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide!
   Movement
   Community
   

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8. Making Switzerland a leading hub for digital innovation. Worldwide!
   Movement
   Community
   Enabler
   

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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
    

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