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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…
How local councils drive open data in municipalities
Although local governments are the closest actors to citizens, they often face limitations in terms of resources and capacities to implement open data effectively. The diputations, as intermediate institutions between central government and municipalities, play a key role in coordinating, supporting…
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…
