Recap Video DINAcon 2025

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My highlights from DINAcon 2025, the annual Swiss conference for Digital Sustainability in Bern.

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We also just had a great time hanging out with the #PrototypeFundCH crews and experimenting with the hardware #DINAconCH
A few interesting experiments have come out of the #DINAconCH HACKnight https://hacknight.dinacon.ch/dribs

My input into the AI track at #DINAconCH covered some history and shared an outlook for the civil sector, in particular the #PublicAI movement as a way to get behind sovereign ML/AI projects, and build on the foundations of #PublicCode

My slides - and ideas for how to get started - are here: https://hacknight.dinacon.ch/project/103

To dig into the docs, source code, agentic prompts, or even circuit diagrams, of the projects and prototypes we showcased at #DINAconCH - join the #HACKnight 🌘

You might learn something new, or at least hang out with nice folks like these in our aprés-conf gathering this evening. The shells are open  https://hacknight.dinacon.ch

Rahel Estermann has put in almost 40 proposals at the Lucerne parliament, several on topics of open data and software freedom: https://www.lu.ch/kr/mitglieder_und_organe/mitglieder/mitglieder_detail?Id=ba7fd0e8d65c4a2da2ca44b4bbb5e6b7&main=4CC2553D98E64C99B23BF2B06B8A3672&ges=e1dadc3256ab4d0d91377bb5b29a5777

Great kickoff to a visionary panel and last discussion (moderated by Clarisse Schröder) on stage today
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What Freedoms are we losing? What do we really mean by sovereignty? What happens when we click „I agree“ and give up control of our systems? 🫣

Henry Poole shows us the blind spots with maturity models for service firms, small businesses even, that find a purpose in digital stewardship and technical ecosystems
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EMBAG Art. 9 requires the 🇨🇭 federal government to publish commissioned software, but this alone generates no direct benefits, says Matthias Günther.

Going through several historic and current example projects, he shows us from deep experience how to achieve real synergies and cost savings 🫕 Open development must involve stakeholders from the requirements gathering phase and include collaborative development with selected third parties, requiring adapted governance structures.

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With “the Functional Framework”, an open API registry from #TMforum lets you put consistent standards, requirements and access pathways for customers or suppliers in one place.

Florian Kammermann shows how this is being used by #Swisscom to standardize interfaces among telcos and SP‘s #DINAconCH