GLAM/Newsletter/September 2024/Contents/Switzerland report
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Swiss GLAM Programme
GLAM Hack
This year at thas been the 10th edition of the GLAM Hack in Switzerland that is organised by the Opendata Association. The theme was “On the move" with the focus of objects and people moving around the world. It started with the GLAM night featuring a project in Pueblas, Mexico, where art students created art pieces related to objects in Swiss museum collections. Besides there were many interesting projects as the Cyanometer or the map of selforganized art initiatives in Switzerland.
Responsible Tech
The round table on sustainability in the tech field took place on 18th of September at the University Mail in Geneva. The talk was about tools and the future in tech. How can tech become more sustainable? What tools can we use to support the future? The title “Le numérique comme outil : entre consommation et utilisation" shows the shift that was taken to open software and the wiki world.
IT WikiCon
The Italian WikiCon takes place every year as the French and the German WikiCon. Being a country with four official languages there is always a long discussion at the beginning of the year who from the staff can go to what event. In Switzerland the aim is to mix the different languages as otherwise people do not know of each other. So the French staff members usually go to the German and Germans to the Italian Wikicon. This time there was nearly no rain but lots of mosquitos. In Padova there was a lot of art to see in the GLAM institutions but also in the churches. Yoko Ono's installation EX IT is quite impressive filling the space with olive trees.
