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“MeteoAlpen” – A Citizen Science Project for the Verification of Weather Models

Walking, hiking, touring, mountaineering or one of the countless other activities lure us into nature and the mountains. As a place for sporting activities, eventful adventures or leisurely relaxation, Switzerland’s mountain landscape has something to offer for a wide variety of tastes. But a trip into nature is always accompanied by questions about what to […]

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What can we learn from Covid19?

The public sector faces formidable challenges. These have become more prominent as a result of the Corona pandemic. Now we must also use the crisis as an opportunity, writes our author and project manager at www.civicchallenge.chChe Wagner and calls for a workshop for innovative solutions in administration. We humans have undoubtedly become witnesses to numerous […]

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Digitization and the Environment: Opportunities, Risks and the Need for Action

Thanks to the radically changed living and working conditions in times of COVID-19 (Corona virus disease 2019), many people have become acutely grateful for the benefits of digitization, even while having to confront some challenges in the application of digital tools. The year 2020 is already being hailed as “the year of digitization”[1]. But digitization […]

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April-May: Special Issue “Shaping a Sustainable Digital World”

The digital transformation our society is currently undergoing affects many areas of public and private life. Technological progress has great potential for improving living conditions, but entails also a number of risks. In the light of other megatrends, such as climate change – and the associated negative consequences for people and the environment – it […]

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Covid19 Hackathon: Programming new applications from data

Since the beginning of March, the Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich and its specialist and coordination unit OGD (Open Government Data) have been collecting all data relating to the coronavirus, thus creating an openly accessible data basis. Useful applications were programmed from the data at the “Monitoring COVID-19 Effects Hackathon”. Public statistics specialises […]