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The implementation of the EU Data Governance Regulation in Public Administrations
Since 24 September last year, the Regulation (EU) 2022/868 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022, on European Data Governance (Data Governance Regulation) has been applicable throughout the European Union. Since it is a Regulation, its provisions are directly effective without…
Hot OSM: Collaborative mapping to coordinate emergency response
The humanitarian crisis following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 was the starting point for a voluntary initiative to create maps to identify the level of damage and vulnerability by areas, and thus to coordinate emergency teams. Since then, the collaborative mapping project known as Hot OSM (OpenS…
Validation of the Royal Decree-Law on reuse of public sector information and open data
Why a Royal Decree-Law?
In the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies held on December 2, 2021, Royal Decree-Law 24/2021, of November 2, on the transposition of several European Union directives, including Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of June 20, 2019,…
Formulas for accelerating data collaboration
After a period in which efforts were focused on releasing data, mainly from the public sector, in conditions in which it could be reused to create value in its different forms (economic, social, cultural, etc.), we are finding increasing activity around collaboration between organizations to solve b…
New European strategy on open source software 2020-2023
Have you ever stopped to think about how much open source software you use in your day-to-day life without even being aware of it? From most of the apps on your smartphone, to your connected home devices, to the software running in your car. In all of these programs, much of the code is partly based…
The ecosystem that nourishes open data
On too many occasions, open data initiatives are born in governments as purely technical projects whose purpose is simply creating a data catalog, when, in reality, they should be seen as collaborative transformation projects that take place within complex and variable environments, in which th…
