Open Data Day Madrid
The International Open Data Day is celebrated on Saturday 4 March. For the fifth time in history, organizations around the world and local groups will create different events, conferences, workshops and activities in their community to show the benefits of open data and their re-use while promoting the adoption of open data policies in governments, companies and civil society.
In Spain, the institutions Open Knowledge España, ODI Madrid and Medialab-Prado organize the Open Data Day Madrid. It is an open data hackathon where developers, programmers, designers, journalists and users have the opportunity to participate in different projects to re-use open data.
In this edition, the international organization will focus on four key areas in which open data play an important role: Open research data, tracking public money flows, open data for environmental and open data for rights humans. In addition to these issues, the Madrid call will include in its agenda a workshop on data journalism: La España Vacía (The Empty Spain). This activity, organized by MediaLab-Prado, is aimed at data journalists, statisticians or analysts who re-use the data to elaborate a journalistic story related to demographic flows in Spain, spatial planning or differences between rural or urban areas, among others.
Since 2 February, the call for proposals is open, participants have to collect and analyse data from reliable and localized sources, presenting their projects with an open license that allows their reuse and distribution. The selected projects will be advised by national and international media professionals and experts in data analysis, treatment and visualization.
MediaLab-Prado also invites the participants to show their projects in the event Open Data Day Madrid, so the rest of attendees have the opportunity to enrich the data sources of the projects before the submission deadline, on 12 March.
Those people who want to work on one of the projects selected during one of the three sessions of the workshop that will take place in April, May or June may register as collaborators in the Medialab-Prado website from March 6. The rest of the open data community that wants to attend or share their ideas during the Open Data Day Madrid can join the Medialab list on data journalism or contact OKFN Spain sending an email to okfn@okfn.es or via their official Twitter account @okfn_spain.
