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📣 GLAMhack update & OpenGLAM Working Group meetup
The GLAMhack 2025 has been postponed to 12–14 Nov 2026 in Winterthur, hosted by Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte. In the meantime, help shape what’s next and join the OpenGLAM Working Group meeting on Friday, 14 Nov 2025, 2–5pm at SKKG (Wintower, Winterthur).
Optional community lunch at 12:15 at Restaurant Strickers.
Register via email to jonas.lendenmann@openglam.ch and let us know if you’ll join for lunch.
🧪 Where Prototypes meet Futures!
On Sept 18 we team up with @SwissFutureInstitute at the Swiss Future Symposium for our first-ever User Testing Day!
✨ Test open prototypes
🎤 Hear bold AI visions
🍕 Eat, jam, and share feedback
🎟️ Tester Lottery → 10 spots at 49 CHF
Tell us via info@prototypefund.ch:
1️⃣ why you want to test
2️⃣ what excites you about the Symposium
📍 Impact Hub Zürich
👉 https://eventfrog.ch/de/p/wissenschaft-und-technik/future-symposium-bridging-ai-to-human-impact-7338486367247158129.html
46 cities. 26 cantons. 2 countries (🇨🇭🇱🇮). For a year, we have been collaboratively building our open API for harmonized parliamentary data to promote transparency, innovation and participation in Swiss politics. Our data infrastructure imports data from 74 national, cantonal and municipal parliaments (some APIs, mostly websites) and partially* cleans, harmonizes and publishes them openly
ENGINEERS – IDEATORS – DESIGNERS
👉 Are you eager to develop a better understanding of our energy production, consumption and distribution?
👉 Do you want to create new solutions to make the energy industry more transparent, social and sustainable?
📅 On Sept. 11 –12th 2025 the Energy Data Hackdays will take place for the seventh time at the FHNW Campus in Brugg-Windisch.
🚀 WE NEED YOU: Join our prototyping adventure. Register now: https://www.energydatahackdays.ch
👉 New eCH expert group develops standard for political transactions
🔎 In an informative short video, the co-chairs of the eCH expert group, Christian Gutknecht (member of our board) and Michael Luggen (Federal Chancellery), explain how this came about, what the objectives of the expert group are and what concrete benefits the standardisation of parliamentary data and other political transactions will bring.
See https://opendata.ch/news/datenstandards-fur-den-schweizer-politikbetrieb/
Have you already had the news? The
Energy Data Hackdays
will take place again in 2025!
After the good experiences and results of the Hackdays since 2019, the next edition of the Energy Data Hackdays will take place in Brugg-Windisch with existing and new partners.
When: Thursday, 11 September and Friday, 12 September 2025
Where: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Campus Brugg-Windisch
Find more Informations here:
https://opendata.ch/events/energy-data-hackdays-2025/
And register now!
https://www.energydatahackdays.ch/shop
Here you can find all events organised by Opendata.ch. On our Save-the-Dates list, you can find further interesting events by other organisations in Switzerland. If you don’t want to miss any events or Hackdays, sign up for our Opendata.ch or Hackdays Newsletter.
Join Our Team as Director (70 – 100%)
We are looking for a committed, digital and data-savvy person with management experience to head our office! Become part of an agile non-profit organization and a great team with an important mission: We want to empower people with open knowledge and make our society more open, innovative and fair. Apply now or tell a friend! ❤️
‼️ Unsere Demokratie braucht Regeln für Social Media und Suchmaschinen!
Auch der Bundesrat hatte das bereits im April 2023 eingesehen.
Doch anstatt vorwärts zu machen, hat der Bundesrat letzte Woche den Gesetzesentwurf weiter hinausgezögert.
📣 Die Diskussion über die notwendigen Spielregeln für Social Media und Suchmaschinen muss jedoch dringend stattfinden!
🚀 Unterzeichne unseren offenen Brief an den Bundesrat:
https://algorithmwatch.ch/de/plattformen-regulieren/
🔎 Erfahre mehr:
https://opendata.ch/news/unsere-demokratie-braucht-regeln-fur-social-media-und-suchmaschinen/
Florin Hasler
