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Destination Earth: a digital Earth twin for a sustainable future
Today's climate crisis and environmental challenges demand innovative and effective responses. In this context, the European Commission's Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative is a pioneering project that aims to develop a highly accurate digital model of our planet.
Through this digital twin…
How Google, Moovit and Citymapper reuse open mobility data
Many people use apps to get around in their daily lives. Apps such as Google Maps, Moovit or CityMapper provide the fastest and most efficient route to a destination. However, what many users are unaware of is that behind these platforms lies a valuable source of information: open data. By reusing p…
Private company data sharing initiatives: success stories
In today's digital age, data sharing and opendatahave emerged as key pillars for innovation, transparency and economic development. A number of companies and organisations around the world are adopting these approaches to foster open access to information and enhance data-driven decision making. Bel…
Big Data Test Infrastructure: A free environment for public administrations to experiment with open data
The Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) is a tool funded by the European Digital Agenda, which enables public administrations to perform analysis with open data and open source tools in order to drive innovation.
This free-to-use, cloud-based tool was created in 2019 to accelerate d…
Data policies that foster innovation
The importance of data in today's society and economy is no longer in doubt. Data is now present in virtually every aspect of our lives. This is why more and more countries have been incorporating specific data-related regulations into their policies: whether they relate to personal, busin…
User access to data from connected products and related services in the new European Data Regulation ( Data Act)
The adoption of the Regulation (EU) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2023 on harmonised rules for fair access to and use of data (Data Law) is an important step forward in the regulation of the European Union to facilitate data accessibility. This is an initiative already…
What can we find in the CRUE report "Data Analytics at the University"?
Last November 2023, Crue Spanish Universities published the report TIC360 "Data Analytics in the University". The report is an initiative of the Crue-Digitalisation IT Management working group and aims to show how the optimisation of data extraction and processing processes is key to the generation…
Data intermediaries and their role in the Data Governance Act
Data is a key part of Europe''s digital economy. This is recognised in the Data Strategy, which aims to create a single market that allows free movement of data in order to foster digital transformation and technological innovation. However, achieving this goal involves overcoming a number of obstac…
Data citation, a practice that favours the re-use of data
We are living in a historic moment in which data is a key asset, on which many small and large decisions of companies, public bodies, social entities and citizens depend every day. It is therefore important to know where each piece of information comes from, to ensure that the issues that affect our…
Progress on the state of open data globally
It is now almost five years since the publication of the study on the first decade of open data by the Open Data for Development (OD4D) network and more than 60 expert authors from around the world. This first edition of the study highlighted the importance of open data in socio-economic development…
