Major support boost for Swiss parliament’s digital sustainability group

Digitalswitzerland, the country’s largest industry association encouraging ICT and innovation, has joined Parldigi, the Swiss parliamentarian group on digital sustainability. The parliamentarians say the expanded network will increase the reach of Parldigi, connecting key players on digitalisation.

Digitalswitzerland, founded at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, 2015, and now representing 150 companies, public services and non-profit organisations, aims to make the country “a leader in all areas of digitalisation”. It joins the other sponsors of Parldigi: Ch Open (trade association for open source companies), Opendata.ch, Wikimedia CH, SIRA (a Swiss network of computer scientists), and the Swiss Informatics Society, an IT trade organisation.

Parldigi (in German: Parlamentarische Gruppe Digitale Nachhaltigkeit, and in French: Le Groupe Parlementaire pour une Informatique Durable) in an emailed press statement explained that its sponsors help the parliamentarians encourage digital sustainability. The group organises events, hearings, political initiatives and legislative proposals.

The parliamentarians have worked with Digitalswitzerland to organise open hearings (online) on the proposed regulations on digital ledger technology (blockchain). Next week, on 9 September, the two are organising a similar online event to discuss the new data privacy law. (The event will be organised using BigBlueButton, a free and open source web conferencing solution.)

More information:

Computerworld news item (in German)
Netzwoche news items (in German)