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From data strategy to data governance system (part 1)
More and more organisations are deciding to govern their data to ensure that it is relevant, adequate and sufficient for its intended uses, i.e. that it has a certain organisational value.
Although the scenarios are often very diverse, a close look at needs and intentions reveals that many of these…
From data strategy to data governance system (part 2)
In the first part of this article, the concept of data strategy was introduced as the organisation's effort to put the necessary data at the service of its business strategy. In this second part, we will explore some aspects related to the materialisation of such a strategy as part of the design or…
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…
The benefits of open data in the agriculture and forestry sector: the case of Fruktia and Arbaria
As in other industries, digital transformation is helping to change the way the agriculture and forestry sector operates. Combining technologies such as geolocation or artificial intelligence and using open datasets to develop new precision tools is transforming agriculture into an increasingly tech…
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…
Copernicus, the European Earth Observation Program
Geospatial data is one of the data categories most demanded by organizations, companies and citizens. The new European regulation on open data and reuse of public sector information considers them as high-value data, due to its ability to boost innovative services and generate socio-economic benefit…
The agroclimatic information system for irrigation (SiAR)
The data generated by the agroclimatic stations maintained by the different public administrations and integrated into the Agroclimatic Information System for Irrigation (SiAR) generate valuable open data sets for the agricultural sector. These data, combined with other open data sets, such as weath…
The transversality of open climate data
Humans have been interested in weather prediction for several millennia. This interest goes back at least until the Babylonian civilization, when meteorological predictions were already made based on astrology and the clouds patterns. However, it was in the early twentieth century when decisive prog…
Technologies that boost the precision forestry industry
The forest industry, as defined by FAO, include all economic activities that mostly depend on the production of goods and services from forests. This is an industry that, in many cases, has been seen as destructive to the environment due to its relationship with the tree felling. However, in almost…
Artificial intelligence impact on business value chain
The commercial adoption of any new technology and, therefore, its incorporation into the business value chain follows a cycle that can be moulded in different ways. One of the best known models is the Gartner hype cycle. With regard to artificial intelligence and data science, the current discussion…
