All a Challenge #Aporta2017
Fecha de la noticia: 02-11-2017
Ten teams, five months of hard work, a large dose of enthusiasm and ten final prototypes where open data, technology, public administrations, re-use and innovation have gone hand in hand. At the end of October at the headquarters of red.esthe presentation before the jury for the ten final prototypes and ideas by the Aporta Challenge 2017 initiative: “The value of data in government” will take place. An initiative launched last May from the Aporta Initiative (datos.gob.es) with the aim of promoting creative solutions and ideas to improve the efficiency of government by using open data. In the first round of the “challenge” a total of 45 ideas were received from working groups in academic and business sectors, as well as individuals. The jury assessed the ideas presented, taking into account their relevance, quality and usefulness, and ten of them passed through to the second round.
Here are the ten final ideas, their creators and the three prototypes that won (with the following rewards: 1st prize €3,000, 2nd prize €2,000 and 3rd prize €1,000) and whose result was announced on Tuesday October 24 at the Aporta Meeting 2017.
THE WINNERS
First Prize ► Liight App
An app that makes a game of sustainability in order to incentivise people to be more sustainable in their day to day. Through smart city systems and gaming mechanisms, the use of public transport, bicycle or recycling was rewarded. The compensation are Liights, a virtual currency that users can redeem by obtaining different discounts and direct rewards on products and services. The app verifies the actions through its own algorithms and cross data collected, through sensors on the smartphone and crossing them with public and private data bases, as well as IoT devices (RecyclIoT)./p>
Second Prize ► Plataforma PLAN
A platform that gives value to open data in the field of public procurement in a completely new way, helping to plan tasks for contracting authorities, especially small or medium sized authorities. Through the platform, public administration has quick and user-friendly information on the market, better positioning it when designing their open procedures. Operators have a customised notification system, increasing their possibilities of being considered as providers of goods, services or works.
Third Prize ► qMe-Aporta: Guiado NL en consultas de datos.gob.es
A prototype for the intuitive construction of queries, in controlled natural language, on the knowledge base of datos.gob.es. The system guides the user in constructing the question, showing multiple texts to start and continue the sentence with. It allows the use of terms of the system (metadata) and their synonyms, the construction of the query in multiple ways (not everyone asks in the same way), the creation of queries in different languages and most importantly, the system is oriented towards data and not only towards metadata, allowing the user to explore data whilst creating the query.
THE FINALISTS
LicitaLio
A prototype that compares public sector contracts from different regions. It is a comparison site that, by using datamining and clustering techniques, it improves access to public sector contracts to help select and re-use the best tenders according to the needs of the interested administration.
Licensius
A prototype that studies the license of the data sets published on datos.gob.es. It proposes a mechanism that characterises licenses, using natural language processing techniques (NLP), that quickly detects what public administration resources are duly licensed to be re-used and which have conditions of use that need to be readjusted.
Anfitrión
A system that helps to identify the type of data (pdf, xml, etc.) and transform its structure to a legible code, in this case JSON. This client-server tool acts as an interpreter to transform data sets in different formats to the JSON format, easily re-useable by companies and by other administrations.
Análisis de contenidos de comunicación ciudadana
A prototype that helps to actively listen to citizens on Twitter and their classification, achieving a relationship where citizens speak with the government. An initiative aimed at helping governments to quickly answer citizens by analysing citizen-government channels of communication, and identifying the interests prior to requesting information.
Noticias Abiertas
Explores the news from data, combining natural language processing with automatic learning techniques. It is a recommendation system for open data sets for public administrations, linking them with content generated by digital media, benefiting active citizen participation and transparency of local governments.
Funding analytics for Innovation projects
A web tool that helps to visualise and search for results of R+D projects financed by different public administrations in Spain and Europe. This tool is based on open data of R+D projects and will help to analyse and visualise granting of subsidies, detecting research trends that help local governments to evaluate and create new lines of business for companies.
Mi Turno
A mobile app to manage waiting times for citizens at public organisations and administrations. Reflecting the number of people waiting in offices associated to a government service, it helps to analyse and manage the waiting times and, therefore, to improve government efficiency.
