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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…
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…
Progress on the state of open data globally
It is now almost five years since the publication of the study on the first decade of open data by the Open Data for Development (OD4D) network and more than 60 expert authors from around the world. This first edition of the study highlighted the importance of open data in socio-economic development…
X-ray of the national Tourism dataspace: Challenges and opportunities for the tourism sector.
The Spanish Hub of Gaia-X (Gaia-X Hub Spain), a non-profit association whose aim is to accelerate Europe's capacity in data sharing and digital sovereignty, seeks to create a community around data for different sectors of the economy, thus promoting an environment conducive to the creation of sector…
Promotion of tourist attractions and recommendations to visitors with open data
As our lives become more and more digitized, activities as face-to-face as “tourism” are also being pushed towards a transformation as profound as that of other sectors and activities. In this digitization process, both the data and the technologies associated with artificial intelligence are essent…
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…