The Aporta Challenge moves on to the 2nd phase after selecting the 10 best ideas of the 45 presented

The first phase of the Aporta Challenge 2017: The value of data for the Administration has come to an end. The competition "How to reuse open data to improve efficiency in public administration", promoted by the State Secretariat for the Information Society and Digital Agenda, the Public Body Red.es and the General Secretariat for Digital Administration, received a total of 45 ideas from working groups in the academic and business sectors as well as individuals. Ten of these have been selected and move on to the second stage. The jury, which evaluated the ideas presented taking into account their relevance, quality and usefulness, stressed the high quality of all the proposals received.

The ten proposals selected as finalists in this first phase are the following:

• QME -Aporta: NL guidance in datos.gob.es consultations
  Search engine based on natural language guidance that seeks to facilitate the discovery of the data provided by the public administrations and reuse thereof between them.
• Licitalio: Your tool for comparison of public contracts
  A web tool which, using datamining and clustering techniques, aims to improve access to public sector contracts in order to facilitate selection or and reuse of the best bids according to the needs of the administration concerned.
• Informal analysis of licenses
  Mechanism to characterize licenses, using natural language processing techniques, aiming to detect swiftly what administration resources are duly licensed for reuse and which of them have conditions of use needing to be readjusted.
• Anfitrión (Host)
  Client server system intended to act as an interpreter for the transformation of sets of data in different formats to JSON, easily reusable by businesses and other administrations.
• Light
  Mobile application that, by introducing gamification mechanisms, proposes to encourage people to contribute together with the administrations to enable a more sustainable environment, by rewarding habits and actions such as using the public transport service.
• PLAN Platform
  Project aimed at publication of announcements prior to the launch of national tenders to which all economic agents could subscribe, encouraging competition and transparency.
• Analysis of content for public communication
  Initiative to streamline the response of administrations to the general public by means of analysis of the channels of communication citizens-city council, and identification or the interest prior to the request for information.
• Open News
  System designed to recommend open public datasets related to content generated by digital means, in order to encourage active citizen participation and transparency in public administrations.
• Funding Analytics For Innovation Projects
  Proposed development of an analytical web tool based on open data R&D+i projects aimed at analyzing and visualizing subsidies granted and detecting trends in research that help public administrations to evaluate and create new business lines for companies.
• My turn
  Mobile application that, while showing the number of people waiting their turn at the offices associated with a service offered by the administration, would analyze and manage waiting times for the public and therefore improve the administration’s efficiency.

Now the second phase of the Aporta Challenge is beginning, in which those responsible for the winning ideas have a period of two and half months to develop their prototypes, which they will present to the jurors next October 23.

Prizes of 3,000, 2,000 and 1,000 euros will be presented to the top three prototypes, which will be announced during the Aporta 2017 Meeting on 24 October.

We encourage the open data community to attend this meeting (attendance free) which this year reaches its seventh edition.