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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…
Edge computing and its importance in real-time data management
Autonomous vehicles, smart waste management services, trainers that monitor how much we exercise... We live in an increasingly digital and connected environment, with greater similarities to the future we dreamed of as children. It is the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), a network of physical obj…
The benefits of publishing open mobility data in cities
Mobility is a key economic driver. Increasing the efficiency and quality of a country's mobility system contributes both to the strength of its economy and to improving the quality of life of its citizens. This is particularly important in the mobility systems of cities and their metropolitan areas,…
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,…
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…
Accessible training on new technologies: MOOCs and online training platforms
The adoption of innovative technologies could bring great competitive advantages for companies, optimizing processes, improving the customer experience and even creating new products and services. Therefore, an increasing number of organizations demand professionals with knowledge in areas such as d…
The transforming power of data in our cities
People, governments, economy, infrastructure, environment ... all these elements come together in our cities and they have to make the most of the constant flow of data on their streets to be more efficient. Analysis of the efficiency of services, monitoring of investment, improvement of public…
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…