Open data portals around Europe: Switzerland encouraging an exchange
of open government data
As the Swiss public administration’s central portal, opendata.swiss
[https://opendata.swiss/en] contributes to Switzerland’s commitment
to open data by providing access to more than 11 000 datasets,
supplied by 140 different organisations. The data stems from the
Confederation, cantons, communes and is a record of third-party data
that is relevant for the public interest.  

The Swiss platform has several goals [https://opendata.swiss/en/about]
as they strive to facilitate an exchange of information on Open
Government Data (OGD) between data providers and data users, create an
environment promoting the use of public data, and support the
infrastructure for Swiss data. Moreover, the portal contains over 100
showcases that inform users about the application of datasets in daily
life or that are data visualisations with datasets found on the
portal.  

Opendata.swiss is part of an initiative of the Federal Statistical
Office
[https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/services/ogd/documentation.html],
which implemented the OGD strategy. From this strategy, the
opendata.ch [https://opendata.ch/] association was launched as part of
the Open Knowledge Network and they organise activities and events in
Switzerland on open data. Their goal is to live in a society that is
open, innovative, and fair. The open data portal supports this vision
by giving free and easy access to all kinds of information with 14
different categories.  as part of the Open Knowledge Network and they
organise activities and events in Switzerland on open data. Their goal
is to live in a society that is open, innovative, and fair. The open
data portal supports this vision by giving free and easy access to all
kinds of information with 14 different categories.  

In conclusion, Switzerland is working towards a society that is
empowered by open data usage and continues with increasing the
availability of OGD. On the data.europa [https://data.europa.eu/en]
portal, many datasets on Switzerland
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&minScoring=0&dataScope=countryData&country=ch&page=1]
are collected for you to freely use for your research.   

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Publication Date/Time
2024-07-31T08:00:00+00:00
Easy access to more than 11 000 datasets of public data