Entries by SocietyByte

Hackathon for inclusive digitalisation in the social sector

How do social organisations keep pace with digitalisation? The Bern University of Applied Sciences is focusing on new forms of work and cooperation between different disciplines. At Hack4SocialGood, it challenges people from the social sector and the IT sector to a playful competition. In the interview, Oliver Hümbelin, Oleg Lavrovsky and Ruth Schindler talk about […]

How an app helps to green facades

The app “towards green cities” shows how urban facades can be transformed into vertical gardens. Thanks to augmented reality, planners and citizens alike are brought closer to the future of vertical gardens. The app was developed at the BFH Architecture, Wood and Construction. An interview with Prof. Thomas Rohner, one of the co-initiators of the […]

Call for Papers: “Missing Links”

In April 2019, the board of the Opendata.ch association has decided to create a Swiss Linked Data Working Group that is intended to reinforce and broaden existing mobilization and coordination efforts that have so far taken place in the context of the annual Linked Data Switzerland Workshop and the eCH Specialized Group “Open Government Data”. […]