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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…
PET technologies: how to use protected data in a privacy-sensitive way
As organisations seek to harness the potential of data to make decisions, innovate and improve their services, a fundamental challenge arises: how can data collection and use be balanced with respect for privacy? PET technologies attempt to address this challenge. In this post, we will explore what…
The future of privacy in a world dominated by open data
In the era dominated by artificial intelligence that we are just beginning, open data has rightfully become an increasingly valuable asset, not only as a support for transparency but also for the progress of innovation and technological development in general.
The opening of data has brought enormou…
Data visualization: the best charts for representing comparisons
Data is a valuable source of knowledge for society. Public commitment to achieving data openness, public-private collaboration on data, and the development of applications with open data are actions that are part of the data economy, which seeks the innovative, ethical, and practical use of data to…
How to choose the right chart to visualise open data
A statistical graph is a visual representation designed to contain a series of data whose objective is to highlight a specific part of the reality. However, organising a set of data in an informative way is not an easy task, especially, if we want to capture the viewer’s attention and to present the…
Common misunderstandings in data anonymisation
Data anonymisation is a complex process and often prone to misunderstandings. In the worst case, these misconceptions lead to data leakage, directly affecting the guarantees that should be offered to users regarding their privacy.
Anonymisation aims at rendering data anonymous, avoiding the re-ident…
The importance of anonymization and data privacy
We are in a historical moment, where data has become a key asset for almost any process in our daily lives. There are more and more ways to collect data and more capacity to process and share it, where new technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Linked Data play a…
Responsible management of data concerning minors
Young people have consolidated in recent years as the most connected demographic group in the world and are now also the most relevant actors in the new digital economy. One in three internet users across the planet is a child. Furthermore, this trend has been accelerating even more in the current…
The role of blockchain in security and data privacy
The imminent application of the recent GDPR (May 25th) modifies the European panorama in terms of security and privacy of personal data. Overall, the GDPR could be considered a "Digital Declaration of Rights". As we saw earlier, this Regulation lists the detailed requirements that any institution or…
Personal open data but under control
Open data has great potential to improve transparency and accountability or to enhance public services and the creation of new services, but at the same time they also show a less friendly face by increasing our vulnerability and exposing information increasingly more detailed that is not always use…