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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…
Open data for a better understanding of the housing situation in Spain
Housing is one of the main concerns of Spanish citizens, according to the January 2025 barometer of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS). In order to know the real situation of access to housing, it is necessary to have public, updated and quality data, which allows all the actors in thi…
Open data to promote healthy ageing
Data on older people can play a crucial role in promoting healthy ageing, assisting the development and maintenance of the physical and mental capacities that enable well-being in old age. This open data can be used for the development of policies to better respond to the needs of older people, such…
How to measure carbon footprint using open data
The carbon footprint is a key indicator for understanding the environmental impact of our actions. It measures the amount of greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere as a result of human activities, most notably the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal. These gases,…
Discover IATE: the European Union's inter-institutional terminology bas
IATE, which stands for Interactive Terminology for Europe, is a dynamic database designed to support the multilingual drafting of European Union texts. It aims to provide relevant, reliable and easily accessible data with a distinctive added value compared to other sources of lexical informatio…
Accelerating the energy transition with open data
Aspects as relevant to our society as environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation or energy security have led to the energy transition taking on a very important role in the daily lives of nations, private and public organisations, and even in our daily lives as citizens of the world. Th…
Initiatives for training machine learning models with open data
Behind a voice-enabled virtual assistant, a movie recommendation on a streaming platform, or the development of some COVID-19 vaccines, there are machine learning models. This branch of artificial intelligence enables systems to learn and improve their performance.
Machine learning (ML) is one of th…
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…
10 Popular Data Analytics and Machine Learning Libraries
Programming libraries refer to the sets of code files that have been created to develop software in a simple way . Thanks to them, developers can avoid code duplication and minimize errors with greater agility and lower cost. There are many bookstores, focused on different activities. A few weeks ag…
The re-use of public sector information and industry 4.0
The promotion of digitalisation in industrial activity is one of the main axes for tackling the transformation that the Spain's Digital Agenda 2025 aims to promote. In this respect, several initiatives have already been launched by public institutions, including the Connected Industry 4.0 programme…
