Data is everywhere… What about encouraging our government and businesses to put more data online, and make it easier to extract knowledge and insight… adding value to currently disconnected pieces of information? Everyone generates many new data each minute, each second… and most of them are just stored and not really valued.
Opendata.ch, the national chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation, invites every developer, designer and innovator to its hack days on finance, procurement, budgets and material worth taking place on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd of March. The hack days will happen in two locations (each will welcome at least 50 participants): Bern and Sierre.
Everyone is qualified to attend the – free – event, you don’t have to be a rockstar designer or coder… you just need to have a good dose of creativity and energy to explore data and imagine (and develop!) amazing new applications… to make data more transparent and give a broader access to knowledge!
So please visit Make Opendata‘s website for more information!
Moreover, it was recently announced that Geneva will host the Open Knowledge Festival on 16-18 of September 2013. More than 800 people are expected during this event, with prominent speakers (not officially disclosed by now, but I’ve seen some impressive names!) which will advocate the cause of open data. They are looking for sponsors and people who’d like to help welcome this big event in our country, so if you like the concept and goals of the Open Knowledge Foundation… don’t hesitate to contact Opendata (info@opendata.ch) to propose your help!