{"id":320,"date":"2015-04-11T18:32:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T18:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2015.sgda.ch\/?p=320"},"modified":"2017-02-15T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T14:38:37","slug":"a-political-dialogue-with-the-sgda-that-became-a-historic-event-for-the-swiss-game-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/a-political-dialogue-with-the-sgda-that-became-a-historic-event-for-the-swiss-game-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"A political dialogue with the SGDA that became a historic event for the Swiss Game Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u00abThe idea came during a discussion with a representative of the Swiss Game Developers Association\u00bb states Jacqueline Fehr i<strong>n a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bielertagblatt.ch\/unterhaltung\/digital\/schweizer-politiker-interessieren-sich-fuer-virtuelle-welten\" target=\"_blank\">recent newspaper article<\/a><\/strong>. An idea that became political action: for the first time\u00a0a broad cross-party coalition has brought a motion that asks\u00a0to clarify how policy should influence the development of the Swiss game industry.<\/h3>\n<p>Being in close contact with the media and <a href=\"http:\/\/sgda.ch\/media.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>launching\u00a0a SGDA press release<\/strong><\/a> the day the motion was brought into parliament resulted in\u00a0a big media echo and the\u00a0importance of the issue became immediately visible\u00a0to the public.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>small selection<\/strong> from all the online\/print articles\u00a0and\u00a0blog posts:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00abSwitzerland to become a game mecca\u00bb<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.20min.ch\/schweiz\/news\/story\/Schweiz-soll-zum-Gamer-Mekka-werden-14827096\" target=\"_blank\">20 Minuten<\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u00abGames are becoming a political issue\u00bb<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.srf.ch\/play\/radio\/popupaudioplayer?id=b6748bca-0e45-42a9-9ff4-183fdb391a2e\" target=\"_blank\">SRF3<\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u00abSwiss politics discovers\u00a0gaming\u00bb<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.srf.ch\/wissen\/digital\/die-schweizer-politik-entdeckt-das-gamen\" target=\"_blank\">SRF Online<\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u00abGames have arrived in Swiss politics\u00bb<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.watson.ch\/Front\/articles\/110117426-%C2%ABWir-wollen-die-Chinesen-und-Japaner-hinter-uns-lassen%C2%BB:-Games-sind-in-der-Schweizer-Politik-angekommen\" target=\"_blank\">Watson<\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u00abFinally, Swiss politicians are interested in virtual worlds\u00bb<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bielertagblatt.ch\/unterhaltung\/digital\/schweizer-politiker-interessieren-sich-endlich-fuer-virtuelle-welten\" target=\"_blank\">Bieler Tagblatt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abThe idea came during a discussion with a representative of the Swiss Game Developers Association\u00bb states Jacqueline Fehr in a\u00a0recent newspaper article. An idea that became political action: for the first time\u00a0a broad cross-party coalition has brought a motion that asks\u00a0to clarify how policy should influence the development of the Swiss game industry. Being in &#8230; <a title=\"A political dialogue with the SGDA that became a historic event for the Swiss Game Industry\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/a-political-dialogue-with-the-sgda-that-became-a-historic-event-for-the-swiss-game-industry\/\" aria-label=\"More on A political dialogue with the SGDA that became a historic event for the Swiss Game Industry\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","pmpro-has-access"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgda.ch\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}