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Open data: the great allies to eradicate inequality
Is it possible to find in the data the necessary help to solve the real problems that our society faces? While it is true that data alone cannot be transformed into food for the most disadvantaged, nor can it make weapons disappear in conflict zones or inequalities in the world, they are very useful…
Responsible management of data concerning minors
Young people have consolidated in recent years as the most connected demographic group in the world and are now also the most relevant actors in the new digital economy. One in three internet users across the planet is a child. Furthermore, this trend has been accelerating even more in the current…
GPT-3. Just another step in natural language processing?
Can you imagine an AI capable of writing songs, novels, press releases, interviews, essays, technical manuals, programming code, prescribing medication and much more that we don't know yet? Watching GPT-3 in action doesn't seem like we're very far away.
In our latest report on natural language proce…
How to contribute to improving digital education through the Aporta Challenge
The Aporta Challenge, in line with many other initiatives promoted by public administrations, could not be unaware of the great challenges we are facing in this year 2020. For this reason, its third edition, while fulfilling its usual objective of promoting the use of data and related technologies,…
Open data reuse and analysis for Dummies
Within this technological maelstrom in which we are constantly immersed, every day that passes, humanity is creating a great amount of information that, in many cases, we are unable to deal with.
Public administrations also generate large volumes of information, which they make available to citizens…
Education through MooCs
During the second quarter of 2020, humanity was forced to improvise a large-scale experiment in distance education due to the need to close schools at all levels to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many other sectors and activities, whose face-to-face formula has been abruptly…
The re-use of public sector information and industry 4.0
The promotion of digitalisation in industrial activity is one of the main axes for tackling the transformation that the Spain's Digital Agenda 2025 aims to promote. In this respect, several initiatives have already been launched by public institutions, including the Connected Industry 4.0 programme…
Use Cases of Copernicus data in Spain
Copernicus is one of the geospatial data programmes that is most in demand and the focus of attention of various organisations, private companies and citizens. The programme is run jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union through the European Environment Agency, and has two…
How do the machines learn? Machine Learning and its different types
Machine learning is a branch within the field of Artificial Intelligence that provides systems with the ability to learn and improve automatically, based on experience. These systems transform data into information, and with this information, they can make decisions. A model needs to be fed with dat…
How do Spanish initiatives measure the impact of open data?
Measuring the impact of open data is not always easy. As we saw a few weeks ago, there are several theoretical models that are not easy to implement, so we have to look for different approaches. In the Aporta Initiative we use a mixed approach, as explained here: a quantitative analysis through indi…