Open Government Data – Department of Informatics – DDIS https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:29:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 City of Zurich Publishes Report on eZurich https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2013/11/25/city-of-zurich-publishes-report-on-ezurich/ Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:29:50 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=198 The city of Zurich published its report on the eZurich project kicked off in the fall 2010. DDIS was majorly involved in the project by guiding the setup of the first Swiss Open Government Data website at https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/opendata.secure.html.

The full report, which also mentions UZH is available here: eZuerich Standortbestimmung

]]> Abraham Bernstein interviewed on for eZurich Publication https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2013/01/20/abraham-bernstein-interviewed-on-for-ezurich-publication/ https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2013/01/20/abraham-bernstein-interviewed-on-for-ezurich-publication/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:14:03 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=74 eZurich, the ICT initiative of the City of Zurich, has published a magazine summarizing the achievements of the first year. On Page 11 of that publication they published a brief summary of an interview with Abraham Bernstein.

]]> https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2013/01/20/abraham-bernstein-interviewed-on-for-ezurich-publication/feed/ 3388 DDIS helps the City of Zurich to put the first Swiss Open Government Data Site Online https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2012/06/12/ddis-helps-the-city-of-zurich-to-put-the-first-swiss-open-government-data-site-online-2/ https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2012/06/12/ddis-helps-the-city-of-zurich-to-put-the-first-swiss-open-government-data-site-online-2/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:12:06 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=69 The city of Zurich announced today that it will publish Switzerland’s first Open Government Data site on June 28, 2012 at http://data.stadt-zuerich.ch. DDIS members Mengia Zollinger and Abraham Bernstein contributed to this effort.

The project, which is part of the city of Zurich’s eZurich initiative, will provide the public with a variety of datasets collected within the city’s administration. The project was announced today in a press release.

The project was supported by a number of people from within the administration (including individuals from the IT and Organization, Statistics, and Geomatics Department). In addition the following individuals volunteered their time:

  • Giampiero Beroggi
  • Ruedi Wipf
  • Christina Di Nolfo
  • Tom Sprenger
  • Andrej Vckovski
  • Abraham Bernstein
  • André Golliez
  • Joachim Hagger
  • Marcel Bernet
  • Mengia Zollinger

 

 

Abraham Bernstein

]]> https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2012/06/12/ddis-helps-the-city-of-zurich-to-put-the-first-swiss-open-government-data-site-online-2/feed/ 10996 Open Government Data in the Cloud Talk by Mark Galyor, Microsoft https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2011/11/22/open-government-data-in-the-cloud-talk-by-mark-galyor-microsoft/ https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2011/11/22/open-government-data-in-the-cloud-talk-by-mark-galyor-microsoft/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:20:59 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=87 The slides of the take are avilable here.

More Information about the talk

Abstract

A wave of Open Government initiatives are occurring around the globe. As part of their drive for more transparency and citizen engagement, many Governments are publishing open data for public consumption. This session will look at examples of open data projects around the world, how these are helping Governments transform their relationship with citizens, and how cloud computing technology is enabling Public Sector organizations to rapidly implement Open Government initiatives.

Bio (about Mark Gaylor)

Mark Gayler is an Open Software Evangelist with Microsoft. He is responsible for helping customers and partners realize the benefits of adoption and deployment of the Microsoft technology platform, particularly in the areas of open standards, interoperability, Cloud Computing and Open Government. Mark is a subject matter expert in the use of information technology for Open Government and Open Data initiatives and is passionate about Governments getting the best out of technology to benefit citizens and public services.

Mark relocated from the UK to Canada in 2007 and currently resides in Vancouver with his wife and daughter. Prior to his current role, Mark was a Government Technology Strategist for Microsoft Canada and previously was Manager of the Technology Specialist team for Microsoft Public Sector in UK.

Mark joined Microsoft in 2003 and managed the Enterprise Strategy Consulting team as part of Microsoft Consulting Services in UK. Before joining Microsoft, Mark spent over 15 years in IT Consulting building global Enterprise IT solutions for blue-chip customers including Swissair, European Patent Office, United Nations, and Delta Air Lines.

Mark was educated in Canada and UK and holds an MBA from Oxford Brookes University.

Outside of work, Mark enjoys skiing and scuba diving and has recently taken up Golf describing his progress on the Golf course as “less irritating than it used to be”… Paragraph

Abraham Bernstein

]]> https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2011/11/22/open-government-data-in-the-cloud-talk-by-mark-galyor-microsoft/feed/ 10023 Two DDIS Students participate in the building of App visualizing Swiss parlamentarian’s interests / statements https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2011/10/07/two-ddis-students-participate-in-the-building-of-app-visualizing-swiss-parlamentarians-interests-statements/ https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2011/10/07/two-ddis-students-participate-in-the-building-of-app-visualizing-swiss-parlamentarians-interests-statements/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:24:21 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=94 Two DDIS PhD stduents – Lorenz Fischer and Philip Stutz – participated in a team that visulized the interests of Swiss parlimentarians using tag clouds.

Last week end a number of open data enthusiasts gathered for the first Swiss Make Open Data Camp – a hackathon for people interested in building apps from open data. One team included two DDIS PhD students who contributed to parliment buzword app, which visualizes the words often used by parimenterians in a tag cloud.

Have fun exploring it at its web site at: http://www.gesagt-im-parlament.ch/

Herr Prof. Dr. Abraham Bernstein

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Abraham Bernstein gets interviewed about his support for the eZurich (http://www.ezurich.ch/) initiative

See the full video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHUdOIkn-5o&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Herr Prof. Dr. Abraham Bernstein

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