Furthermore, we will give you an overview over recent updates (stable release 😍), showcases and how you can contribute with code or otherwise. ❤️

👉 Join our public meeting (25.3., 14:00-15:00, online): openparldata.ch/about/public...

*📔 Documentation: data-ecosystem-prototype-bf909a.gitlab.io

Chamber of Swiss Council of States Photo: Hansjörg Keller, Unsplash

How can we run OpenParlData.ch, a 🇨🇭 legislative data infrastructure, sustainably and in the public interest? This question will be at the center of our next public meeting: we will present the first iteration* of our principles, business model & governance requirements & want to hear your feedback!

Viele Frauen hier haben intensiv die gestrige Diskussion verfolgt und mitgestaltet. Ich wundere mich ja immer noch, dass sich hier so viele wundern. Was mich besonders verwundert hat, ist die Verwunderung vieler Männer hier über folgende Tatsachen: 🧵 #Ulmen

The Swiss Internet Governance Forum is an independent, multi-stakeholder platform and the national branch of the United Nations IGF. The conference agenda is fully shaped by stakeholders from government, civil society, academia and business. See you in Bern in June! ❤️

@NZahn42@infosec.exchange

Call for Issues 2026 | igf.swiss

🌐 AI and Big Tech regulation? Digital rights? OSS funding? Which digital issues matter most to you? Submit your idea to the Swiss IGF by tomorrow to help shape Switzerland's digital future: igf.swiss/en/swiss-igf...
It only takes 2 min to fill out the form, so agenda setting has never been easier! 😉

Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."

Der GovTech Hackathon 2026 der Bundeskanzlei findet am 28./29. Mai in Bern statt. Wir vom Institut Public Sector Transformation der Berner Fachhochschule dürfen sie dabei unterstützen. ❤️

👉 Challenge bis zum 19. April einreichen: surveys.bfh.ch/663821
ℹ️ Mehr erfahren: www.bk.admin.ch/bk/de/home/d...

Personen arbeiten an Laptops an einem grossen Tisch. Foto von Béatrice Devènes, Bundeskanzlei

😤 Arbeitest Du mit Daten im öffentlichen Sektor und hast ein Problem, bei dem Du nicht auf einen grünen Zweig kommst? 💡 Hast Du eine Idee, mit #Daten von Bund, Kantonen oder Gemeinden Mehrwert zu schaffen? Dann reiche Deine Challenge beim GovTech Hackathon ein und arbeite gemeinsam an Lösungen! 👇

Das Wunschdenken über die AfD-Wählerschaft:

Höhere #Lohnbeiträge oder #Mehrwertsteuer: darauf beschänkt sich derzeit die finanzpolitische Diskussion in Bundesbern.
Beide belasten überwiegend den #FaktorArbeit.
Das würde die eh schon zunehmende steuerliche Privilegierung des Faktors Kapital (👇) weiter verstärken.

for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, and to the Federal Chancellery for supporting our work. ❤️ Take a look at the current state of the documentation here: data-ecosystem-prototype-bf909a.gitlab.io/business_mod.... We look forward to receiving your input and feedback! 3/3

FOSDEM 2026 - Keeping Legislative Data Accessible

At @fosdem.org, I presented some of our initial results in the @fosdemresearch.bsky.social: fosdem.org/2026/schedul... (video and slides) 2/3

Man presenting with slide in the background explaining openparldata.ch: Access to harmonized open data from 78 national, cantonal, and municipal 🇨🇭 parliaments → Researchers, journalists and civil society organizations: analyze and monitor → Transparency, participation, and innovation in 🇨🇭 politics

How can we sustainably operate an (open) data infrastructure in the public interest? This question lies at the heart of my current work for OpenParlData.ch, an open API for harmonized data from 🇨🇭 parliaments. 1/3

Thanks 💕

FOSDEM 2026 - Stream AW1.120

If you are filled with FOMO like me because you could not attend #FOSDEM this year, remember everything is live streamed. I just heard a great talk from @florihas.bsky.social about how they harmonized the access to Swiss #ParlData with OpenParlData.ch :
live.fosdem.org/watch/aw1120

Dude (me) smiling on train

I'm on my way to Brussels for @fosdem.org #fosdem where I'll present our 🇨🇭 legislative data infrastructure OpenParlData.ch at @fosdemresearch.bsky.social : fosdem.org/2026/schedul.... Let me know if you wanna have a coffee and talk public interest tech, #DigitalPublicGoods or cute 😻.

Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.

If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.

also, this happened this year:

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Baby, wach auf, all die staatskritischen Freidenker kraulen dem Autokraten die Eier, damit er ihre Gegner tritt.

Please Mr Rubio, please! 👅

The world needs social sovereignty The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodo...

Dank Elon ist klar: Behördenkommunikation darf nicht der Willkür von Tech-Konzernen ausgesetzt sein. 🇨🇭 Behörden sollten X sofort verlassen und offene und digital souveräne Alternativen (wie #Mastodon) unterstützen!

#ItsTimeToAbolishX #eXit #DigitalSovereignty blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-...

If you're anti #Antifa, you're fa(scist).

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.

The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.

Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

Elon pinned tweet: Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end

The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed.

“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

Härtere Folgen als angenommen: Ein Ja zur SRG-Initiative wäre das Ende des heutigen Onlineangebots von SRF Nimmt das Volk die Halbierungs­initiative an, müsste die SRG ihre heutigen News-Apps und ihre Social-Media-Aktivitäten wohl komplett einstellen.

Würde die Anti-SRG-Initiative im März angenommen, liefen SRF, RTS und Co. wohl bald nur noch in Altersheimen. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/srg-initiati...

Da die Idee noch ganz am Anfang steht, bin ich dankbar für Feedback und Inputs. Falls du dich ebenfalls für das Thema interessierst oder entsprechende Personen kennst, dann melde dich gerne bei mir! ❤️