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Open data to drive energy efficiency and sustainability
The promotion of energy efficiency and sustainability is one of the priorities of the European Union and Spain, as reflected in the European Green Pact. The availability of open data related to energy production, distribution and consumption allows governments, businesses and citizens to access…
The importance of Critical Minerals: Where to locate data of interest?
The energy transition is also a transition of raw materials. When we imagine a sustainable future, we conceive it based on a series of strategic sectors such as renewable energies or electric mobility. Similarly, we imagine a connected and digital future, where new innovations and business models re…
The keys to the UNE data specifications
We live in a constantly evolving environment in which data is growing exponentially and is also a fundamental component of the digital economy. In this context, it is necessary to unlock its potential to maximize its value by creating opportunities for its reuse. However, it is important to bear in…
Open data for AI: UNESCO recommendations on open data
The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a United Nations agency whose purpose is to contribute to peace and security in the world through education, science, culture and communication. In order to achieve its objective, this organisation usually est…
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…
Open data, a key tool for promoting knowledge and education
Open solutions, including Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Access to Scientific Information (OA), Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS), and open data, encourage the free flow of information and knowledge, serving as a foundation for addressing global challenges, as reminded by UNESCO.
The Unit…
Hot OSM: Collaborative mapping to coordinate emergency response
The humanitarian crisis following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 was the starting point for a voluntary initiative to create maps to identify the level of damage and vulnerability by areas, and thus to coordinate emergency teams. Since then, the collaborative mapping project known as Hot OSM (OpenS…
The keys to the Law on re-use of public sector information in Spain
The public sector in Spain will have the duty to guarantee the openness of its data by design and by default, as well as its reuse. This is the result of the amendment of Law 37/2007 on the reuse of public sector information in application of European Directive 2019/1024.
This new wording of the reg…
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…
Trends in open data around the world
In view of the series of current and future trends around the future of open data indicated in our report, we wanted to check to what extent these - or similar - trends are already present in the global open data community. To this end, we have verified the current activities and future plans of sev…
