Oleg Lavrovsky - define:soda

074 #fosdem

This post recounts experiences from FOSDEM'21, a massively multiplatform weekend of all things Free & Open source, which I begin with an excerpt from the blog of Albert "Bash&

hackathon

072 a year of #hack

A look back at a year of (mostly online) hackathons, with some thoughts upon their setting and impact.

youth

071 #playbern #gamejam

Glimpses from behind the scenes of the 2020 Game Jam at the PlayBern Festival for Games and Culture.

geospatial

070 #urbandata

Building on the interest in urban data projects described on this blog before, this post goes into some more depth about what we are up to at Cividi, a startup

hackathon

069 #dribdat

It has been a very busy year. Swept up in the pandemic with the rest of the world, our local communities did their best to make hackathons a meeting point for data activists and concerned citizens.

health

068 #covid19mon

Monitoring COVID-19 Effects in an open data remote workshop, where over the course of seven days the participants contributed to a range of datasets to analyse the pandemic.

067 #hangupyourhangups

"Since many weeks, epidemiologists around the world had been looking at the COVID situation with great worry." The world has gone from denial to panic to resignation.

hackathon

066 #opendataday #energyhack2020

The COVID-19 outbreak forced us to go for a virtual hackathon during Open Data Day 2020. Find out what we learned and what's next for open energy data!

hackathon

065 #swihack

A recap of the hackathon on empowering linguistic diversity in newsrooms, the first event of this type hosted in the SRG SSR headquarters, bringing together journalists and media experts with diverse participants to collaborate on innovative media ideas.

health

064 #amld2020 #health

Tweets related to Artificial Intelligence and Public Health at the EPFL Applied Machine Learning Days 2020.

data

063 #amld2020 #mobility

The Applied Machine Learning Days are back at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology of Lausanne for the fourth time. A five-day extravaganza took place with 31 hands-on sessions, 29

space

062 #ai #opendebate

"I am what I earn?..." ironically asks a digital mirror in a temporary installation at the Effinger coworking space aiming to artfully demonstrate a range of applications for Artificial Intelligence.

space

061 #cities

A new year's post about the pace of change, on working with architects, and keeping a balanced outlook on progress.

health

060 #privacy #publichealth

Notes from the 5th Public Health Symposium on Electronic Health Records in Bern, Switzerland.

youth

059 #kinderfreundlich

Presenting cividi at the UNICEF symposium on child-friendly living spaces.

geospatial

058 #digitaltag

Presenting the topic of digital tools for analogue spaces, in one of the most public spaces of Bern for Swiss Digital Day.

hackathon

057 #dbhackathon

A trip to Berlin to visit CityLAB, and take part in a hackathon organized by the Deutsche Bahn.

space

055 #effinger #datawalk

A look back at the Effinger jubilee, reflections from the UG on a journey through coworking spaces and urban spaces.

coding

054 #panoptikum #api2art

Bridging the digital divide - from art studio to online collection - with Frictionless Data.

hackathon

052 #energyhack2019

Outline of the 2019 Energy Data Hackathon by Opendata.ch ~ with behind the scenes data!

switzerland

051 #amld2019 #health #cities

A four day conference at EPFL at the end of January 2019 where I ran an open data workshop, and got to think a lot about human-to-machine relations.

switzerland

050 #amld2019 #frictionless

A four day conference at EPFL at the end of January 2019 where I ran an open data workshop, and got to think a lot about human-to-machine relations.

time

049 #adventhack

The end of the year is a season of change, and so it is wise to allow ourselves the space and time for extra self-reflection. Prompted by the Open Source Challenge and my continued learning journeys, I posted one #adventhack for each of the 24 days of the Advent Calendar in December.

space

048 #hello #world

A new brand story for a renewal of the Datalets mission, supported by Herr Bürli and the Effinger community.

health

047 #sphc2018

Impressions of this year's Swiss Public Health Conference in Neuchatel + a petition for protection of children and adolescents from tobacco advertising