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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…
Gaia-X and European data spaces
The following infographic shows the context driving the development of data spaces, focusing on some related European initiatives such as Gaia-X and ISDA. For more in-depth content you can read the following articles:
The importance of deploying European Data Spaces
Gaia-X and the drive for the da…
The IDS-RAM reference architecture model and its role in data spaces
The data economy represents a huge business opportunity for companies of all sizes and sectors. According to European Commission estimates, the Data Economy will be worth €829 billion in 2025 for the 27 member states. But for the data economy to develop properly, structures are needed to facilitate…
The importance of deploying European Data Spaces
There is no doubt that data is a fundamental asset for companies. Properly processed, they generate great competitive advantages, both in decision-making and in the generation of new products and services, enabling technologies such as Artificial Intelligence. This situation has made many organisati…
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…
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…
