ogd in switzerland_20111021 [kompatibilitätsmodus]

Open Government Data in Switzerland

Open Government Data Camp 2011

Warsaw, 20th and 21st October 2011

André Golliez, Managing Partner itopia

[email protected]

2OGD in Switzeland / OGD Camp 2011 / 21st October 2011

Topics

1. OGD activities in Switzerland

2. Some remarks about Swiss politics

3. OGD: Open Government Documents!

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First Open Data hackday in Switzerland «makeopendata.ch»


- 30th September / 1st October 2011- Zurich and Lausanne- 120 participants- 21 projects- Website makeopendata.ch in English...

«Where Does My Money Go?» – the Swiss (Zurich) version


Swiss Army Contaminated Sites


First OGD Conference «opendata.ch 2011» 24th June 2011, Swiss Federal Archives, 160 participants


Parliamentary Group «Digital Sustainability»:members of the Swiss parliament engage for OGD


Edith Graf-Litscher (SP)

Kathy Riklin (CVP)

Christian Wasserfallen (FDP)

OGD activities in Switzerland - outlook

• November 2011:

Gebert-Rüf Foundation decides about funding a large OGD-Study in Switzerland

(Bern University of Applied Sciences & itopia)

• December 2011:

National Council will discuss and (hopefuly) mandate Federal Council to

implement a Swiss Open Government Data Portal in 2012

• Spring 2012:

next Swiss OGD hackdays «make.opendata.ch»

• 2012/Q2:

«Open Government Data Portal Zurich» live

• June 2012:

second Swiss OGD Conference «opendata.ch 2012»

• ...


Some remarks about Swiss politics

• Swiss Confederation:

since 1848 (no war and no interrupt until today)

• Federalism:

26 cantons and 2,600 municipalities (largely autonomus)

• Subsidiarity:

decentralised division of power, solve issues at the lowest possible level

(every canton has its own constitution, laws, parliament and courts)

• Direct Democracy:

• Popular vote: three to four times a year (on federal, cantonal and minicipality level)

• Popular initiative: right to propose an amendment or addition to the Constitution, needs 100,000

signatures within 18 month

• Optional referendum: right to demand that any bill approved by parliament be put to a nationwide

vote, needs 50,000 signatures within 100 days

• Mandatory referendum: all constitutional amendments approved by parliament must be put to a

nationwide vote. Voters are also required to approve Swiss membership of international

organisations, such as the United Nations and the European Union.

• “Magic Formula”:

Executive power is in the hands of the seven-member government (Federal Council) made up of

representatives of the four main parties (without interrupt since 1959), elected, by the Federal Assembly

(National Council and Council of States) every four years at the beginning of a new legislature.


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Freedom of Information Act since 2006


Art. 6 Principle of Freedom of Information1

Every person shall have the right to inspect official

documents and to obtain information about the contents

of official documents.

2

The documents may be inspected in situ or a copy

thereof may be requested. Legislation governing

copyright shall be reserved.

3

Where an official document has already been published

by the Federal Government, in paper or electronic

format, the provisions pursuant to (1) and (2) above

shall be deemed to have been fulfilled.

What are Official Documents?

Art. 5 Official Documents

1

An official document shall be any information:

a. which has been recorded, regardless of the medium;

b. retained by the authority which issued same or to which it has been communicated; and

c. which concern the execution of a public function.

2

Documents which have been produced by means of a simple computerized process

from recorded information which meets the requirements pursuant to (a), (b) and (c)

above, shall be deemed to be official documents.

3

Not deemed to be official documents are any documents which:

a. are used by an authority in a commercial capacity;

b. have not been issued; or

c. are intended for personal use.


Exceptions...


Accessible or protected?...


Official Documents

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Application for access needs to identify the document...


Information concerning Official Documents?


Art. 18 Information concerning Official Documents(Art. 21[b] FIA)

In the absence of any legislative provisions which

would prohibit such actions, the

authorities shall inform the public as follows:

a. they shall publish, on the Internet, information as to their functions and

important matters for which they are

responsible.

b. they shall make available further information, as appropriate, which may

facilitate the identification of official documents, insofar as doing so does not

give rise to excessive costs.

Swiss Federal Archives building up anopen accessible registry of (almost) all official documents...


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Swiss government today...


... open Swiss government tomorrow!


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Thank you for your attention.



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