Swiss Data Space community

The Swiss Data Space Forum invites experts across domains to help shape the future of trusted #DataSharing in Switzerland. With geodata emerging as the backbone for interoperable and trustworthy #DataSpaces, this initiative is one to watch for anyone bridging the geodata and data ecosystems.
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March 31, 2026

The Swiss Data Space Forum just announced itself to the world1:

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Per the 2025 Swiss Data Alliance study, geodata can (should?) serve as a basis for trustworthy Swiss data spaces – a “horizontal” for the various verticals, if you will. The study is available online (in German, in French) from the Federal Chancellery. See also Alain Buogo’s2 article on the topic, for more context, in German and in French.

In any case, it is probably worth following the Swiss Data Space Forum if you are more broadly interested in data – sans “geo” – politics and infrastructure in Switzerland and beyond. If you want to dive even deeper and/or learn about the Forum (the fall event around data spaces), you can find my3 review (in German) of the 2025 event here.

Swiss Data Space Forum 2026

Footnotes

  1. The world in question being the LinkedIn community.↩︎

  2. Deputy Director of swisstopo and Head of the Coordination, Geo-Information and Services Division.↩︎

  3. Obvious transparency note here.↩︎