Web Monday #15 recap
June 29, 2010
Last night the 15th Web Monday took place in the Startzentrum in Zurich Binz. “You’ve created a monster”, one of the visitors said to me, reflecting, as many others, on the long way the Web Monday has come. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: It is simply astonishing how this event has turned from a small meetup of the Geeks and Freaks into a venerable occasion which no Swiss Webster seems to want to miss. Of course we hope, the Web Monday is a cute and cuddly kind of monster!
Last night the attendees were in for three presentations about Switzerland’s prestigious digital identification project SuisseID, the University graduates’ job platform JobZippers and Nearshoring in Eastern Europe.
Christian Weber of the SuisseID project talked about the positive effects of digital identification for the individual as well as for the economy. However, Web activists (though not present yesterday) have been critical of such authentication methods, fearing that it might endanger the open Web.
It remains to be seen how widely accepted SuisseID (which also runs a group on Amazee) will be and what can be done with it and if it will develop into a political playing field, but being the positive people we are, we assume that it can greatly enhance societal participation in the online environment.
Peter Vogel then talked about “his” baby JobZippers, an international job platform for College and University graduates. From what we heard it seems pretty promising, as long as they manage to keep their users on the platform, once they have found a job. If you are still doing your studies, why not check them out?
Finally Franco Dal Molin ran the Web Monday crowd through a quick presentation regarding Nearshoring in the Ukraine. His company Ciklum works with IT personnel from the Eastern European country and says his customers have made many positive experiences. In contrast to working with hired workers from, let’s say India, there is less anonymity, because one can fly there in two hours and easily meet the rented co-workers, they are tailored to the customers needs and share a similar culture.
Afterwards everybody enjoyed a nice Swiss summer evening and a chat on the roof terrace. If you have missed out on this Web Monday, your next chance is coming right up: The next one is on August, 9th. You can sign up in Amazee’s Web Monday Zurich group, the attendance, of course, is free of charge. If you would like to present or host a Web Monday event, please get in touch with the group admin Dania.
You can find another blog post about the Web Monday by Jan Rothenberger in German over at Startwerk and some pictures from the event on our flickr page.
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