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Benefits and opportunities of public initiatives for open data visualisation
Imagine you want to know how many terraces there are in your neighbourhood, how the pollen levels in the air you breathe every day are evolving or whether recycling in your city is working well. All this information exists in your municipality's databases, but it sits in spreadsheets and technical d…
OGP's assessment and challenges ahead of the forthcoming Global Summit in Spain
The international open government community is preparing for the 9th Global Summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), which will take place in Vitoria-Gasteiz next October.. For three days, government representatives, civil society leaders and policy makers from around the world will exchange…
Big Data Test Infrastructure: A free environment for public administrations to experiment with open data
The Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) is a tool funded by the European Digital Agenda, which enables public administrations to perform analysis with open data and open source tools in order to drive innovation.
This free-to-use, cloud-based tool was created in 2019 to accelerate d…
Invisibilisation and algorithmic discrimination
Digital technology and algorithms have revolutionised the way we live, work and communicate. While promising efficiency, accuracy and convenience, these technologies can exacerbate prejudice and social inequalities exacerbate prejudice and social inequalities and create new forms of exclusion and cr…
Re-use of open data in public administrations
Open data is a source of information for the development of smart services, as well as for decision-making and policy-making. It is therefore not surprising that an increasing number of public bodies, in addition to opening data - for reuse by others and for reasons of accountability and transparenc…
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…
Digital skills in Europe: the use of ontologies to improve the search for candidates
The increasing concern of European authorities for the management of digital skills among the working population, especially young people, is a growing reality whose management does not seem to have an easy solution.
“The internet and digital technologies are transforming our world. But existi…
