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AI Data Readiness: Preparing Data for Artificial Intelligence
Over the last few years we have seen spectacular advances in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and, behind all these achievements, we will always find the same common ingredient: data. An illustrative example known to everyone is that of the language models used by OpenAI for its famous ChatGP…
The impact of open data along its value chain: Indicators and future directions
The transformative potential of open data initiatives is now widely recognised as they offer opportunities for fostering innovation, greater transparency and improved efficiency in many processes. However, reliable measurement of the real impact of these initiatives is difficult to obtain.
From this…
What is the value of open geographic data?
Geographic data allow us to learn about the world around us. From locating optimal travel routes to monitoring natural ecosystems, from urban planning and development to emergency management, geographic data has great potential to drive development and efficiency in multiple economic and social area…
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…
FAIR principles: the secret of the data wizards.
Books are an inexhaustible source of knowledge and experiences lived by others before us, which we can reuse to move forward in our lives. Libraries, therefore, are places where readers looking for books, borrow them, and once they have used them and extracted from them what they need, return them.…
Quantifying the value of data
There is a recurring question that has been around since the beginning of the open data movement, and as efforts and investments in data collection and publication have increased, it has resonated more and more strongly: What is the value of a dataset?
This is an extremely difficult question to answ…
Open data to fight against gender violence
Today, no one can deny that open data holds great economic power. The European Commission itself estimates that the turnover of open data in the EU27 could reach 334.2 billion in 2025, driven by its use in areas linked to disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning or l…
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…
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…
Measuring the impact of open data
The difficulties in adequately measuring the impact of open data initiatives are widely known, as it is a global debate that has been with us practically since the beginning of the first open data initiatives, more than ten years ago. The problem is that it is relatively easy to find isolated exampl…
