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Success stories of data exchange between organizations
The "Support center for data exchange”(Support Center for Data Sharing or SCDS in English) was born in 2019 as part of the European strategy to promote a common data ecosystem. It is a space to investigate and report on the practices of so-called data sharing, which they themselves define as “transa…
A new data paradigm for business and innovation
Data has become central to our increasingly digitised economies and societies. The five largest companies in the S&P500 index (Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Alphabet) all have data as the primary foundation underpinning their businesses. Together they account for approximately a quarter…
How open data can contribute to the circular economy
More than 2.5 billion tonnes. That is the amount of waste that, according to the European Union, is produced every year in the EU - although the specific figure is from 2016 -, with the consequent danger to the environment and our own future. This worrying situation is leading the European instituti…
API Friendliness Checker. A much needed tool in the age of data products.
Many people don't know, but we are surrounded by APIs. APIs are the mechanism by which services communicate on the Internet. APIs are what make it possible for us to log into our email or make a purchase online.
API stands for Application Programming Interface, which for most Internet users means no…
Open data and the reuse of public sector information in the IV Open Government Plan
The IV Open Government Plan 2020-2024 represents a new step in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the United Nations within the framework of the 2030 Agenda adopted by its General Assembly. Specifically, for the achievement of number 16, related to Peace, Justice and S…
Wikidata, a free and open knowledge database
There was a time, not so long ago, when a discrepancy in a piece of information could lead to a long conversation between friends and family. Now, those discussions are over with a quick internet search: how old a celebrity is, which football team won a particular competition or who was in power at…
Open data in health and education as high-value data?
When we think of open data our first intuition is usually directed towards data generated by public sector bodies in the exercise of their functions and made available for reuse by citizens and businesses, i.e. public sector open data or open public data. This is natural, because public sector infor…
Citizen science and open data to help society
Some time ago we talked about the power of citizen science to generate open data. As we explained then, citizen science initiatives seek to encourage citizens to contribute to various scientific activities and research through their efforts, knowledge, tools and resources.
The participatory n…
The new opportunities brought by 5G
Over the last year we have heard about 5G on numerous occasions, often linked to hoaxes and fake news with no scientific basis that make us forget what is really important: 5G will mean an unprecedented technological revolution that will affect our professional and personal lives, and that will brin…
Auto ML. A different approach to data science
It has been a long time since that famous article entitled “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” was published in 2012. Since then, the field of data science has become highly professionalised. A multitude of techniques, frameworks and tools have been developed that accelerate the p…
