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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…
Open data in transport and urban mobility research projects
Open data portals are experiencing a significant growth in the number of datasets being published in the transport and mobility category. For example, the EU's open data portal already has almost 48,000 datasets in the transport category or Spain's own portal datos.gob.es, which has around 2,000 dat…
The gender gap: inequality is also in the data
Today, 8 March is the day on which we commemorate women's struggle to achieve their full participation in society, as well as giving visibility to the current gender inequality and demanding global action for effective equality of rights in all areas.
However, the data seem to indicate that we still…
Google as a reuse of open data
The bet of the technological giant Google with open data it has been evident in various initiatives carried out in recent years. On the one hand, they launched the search engine Google Dataset Search, that facilitates the location of open data published in hundreds of repositories of international i…
Laboratories for innovation in data management
Current approaches to public policy-making that respond quickly to changing trends in technology are too often unsuccessful. Policy makers are often pressured to develop and adopt laws or guidelines without the evidence needed to do so safely and without the opportunity to consult affected experts a…
Responsible management of data concerning minors
Young people have consolidated in recent years as the most connected demographic group in the world and are now also the most relevant actors in the new digital economy. One in three internet users across the planet is a child. Furthermore, this trend has been accelerating even more in the current…
