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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…
Citizen science projects that encourage public knowledge
Citizen science is consolidating itself as one of the most relevant sources of most relevant sources of reference in contemporary research contemporary research. This is recognised by the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), which defines citizen science as a methodology and a mean…
High value statistical datasets foreseen in the National Statistical Plan 2021-2024
The year 2023 was undoubtedly the year of artificial intelligence. This has brought data, and therefore open data, back to the forefront, as it is the raw material that fuels this technology, which is key to value creation in our increasingly digital economy.
Perhaps that is why 2023 has also l…
How Artificial Intelligence and Open Data can re-imagine the way we design our cities
After months of new developments, the pace of advances in artificial intelligence does not seem to be slowing down - quite the contrary. A few weeks ago, when reviewing the latest developments in this field on the occasion of the 2023 deadline, video generation from text instructions was consid…
How young people participate in European politics: An analysis with open data
The active participation of young people in civic and political life is one of the keys to strengthening democracy in Europe. Analyzing and understanding the voice of young people provides insight into their attitudes and opinions, something that helps to foresee future trends in society with…
Open Data for Sustainable City Development
Open data is a valuable tool for making informed decisions that encourage the success of a process and enhance its effectiveness. From a sectorial perspective, open data provides relevant information about the legal, educational, or health sectors. All of these, along with many other areas, utilize…
Vinalod: The tool to make open datasets more accessible
Public administration is working to ensure access to open data, in order to empowering citizens in their right to information. Aligned with this objective, the European open data portal (data.europa.eu) references a large volume of data on a variety of topics.
However, although the data belong to di…
What are the advantages of participating in a hackathon or data-related competition like the Aporta Challenge?
Hackathons, contests or challenges related to data are a different way to test your ideas and/or knowledge, while acquiring new skills. Through this type of competition, solutions to real problems are sought, often in multidisciplinary teams that share diverse knowledge and points of view. In additi…
Hercules-ASIO Initiative. Integration, publication and consultation of linked open research data.
The Hercules initiative was launched in November 2017, through an agreement between the University of Murcia and the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, with the aim of developing a Research Management System (RMS) based on semantic open data that offers a global view of the research…
How to contribute to improving digital education through the Aporta Challenge
The Aporta Challenge, in line with many other initiatives promoted by public administrations, could not be unaware of the great challenges we are facing in this year 2020. For this reason, its third edition, while fulfilling its usual objective of promoting the use of data and related technologies,…
