Press releases

Federal Council adopts Digital Switzerland Strategy 2026
Bern, 12.12.2025 — On 12 December, the Federal Council adopted the updated Digital Switzerland Strategy for 2026 and selected the new focus themes. The focus themes for next year are: digital sovereignty, digital host state and the introduction of the e-ID. This reflects the current priorities.

Digital Switzerland Advisory Board: Open source to be more strongly promoted
Bern, 01.12.2025 — The Digital Switzerland Advisory Board meeting on 1 December 2025 focused on discussing the opportunities and potential of using and publishing open source software. Participants agreed that open source is a central pillar of digital sovereignty and should be promoted even more strongly in the future. The meeting was chaired by Federal Chancellor Viktor Rossi.

15 January 2025
Swiss data ecosystem: Contact point becomes operational

2 October 2024
Federal Chancellery releases tools for publishing open source software

18 October 2022
Bug bounty programme carried out for the Confederation's eIAM central access system