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The importance of data training for public sector workers
There is no doubt that digital skills training is necessary today. Basic digital skills are essential to be able to interact in a society where technology already plays a cross-cutting role. In particular, it is important to know the basics of the technology for working with data.
In this context, p…
The UK data strategy and its reform
Just over a year ago - and after an extensive process of analysis, research and public consultation - the UK government announced its new national data strategy created in response to the increasingly important role of data in all aspects of our society. The strategy builds on other related initiati…
How are we addressing the shortage in professional competencies for working with data?
Over the last decade we have seen how national and international institutions, as well as national governments and business associations themselves have been warning about the shortage of technological profiles and the threat this poses to innovation and growth. This is not an exclusively European p…
Education through MooCs
During the second quarter of 2020, humanity was forced to improvise a large-scale experiment in distance education due to the need to close schools at all levels to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many other sectors and activities, whose face-to-face formula has been abruptly…
The search engine Linknovate and the virtual library Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes, Aporta Awards 2017
The innovative search engine Linknovate and the virtual library Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes have been the two winning projects of the first edition of the Aporta Awards 2017. An initiative promoted by the Secretary of State for the Information Society, Red.es and the General Secretariat o…
The deadline for submitting innovative projects developed with public data to the Aporta Awards, in the final stretch
On 12 September, the deadline ends for companies and entities that have developed projects with public data to submit their projects in the first Aporta Awards in 2017. These awards are focused on divulging and recognising professionals who have opted for reusing open data and innovation as a drivin…
The Aporta Challenge moves on to the 2nd phase after selecting the 10 best ideas of the 45 presented
The first phase of the Aporta Challenge 2017: The value of data for the Administration has come to an end. The competition "How to reuse open data to improve efficiency in public administration", promoted by the State Secretariat for the Information Society and Digital Agenda, the Public Body Red.es…
The Aporta Awards have been created to disseminate and recognize innovative projects that reuse public data
We invite all companies that have successfully carried out projects with reusable data generated by Spanish public administrations to submit their application for the Aporta Awards.
The Aporta Awards 2017, an initiative promoted by the State Secretariat for the Information Society a…
