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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team: tools to map and save lives
In 2010, following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, hundreds of humanitarian organizations arrived in the country ready to help. They encountered an unexpected obstacle: there were no updated maps. Without reliable geographic information, coordinating resources, locating isolated communities, or…
Data pooling: the collective driver of the new data union strategy
In the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), data has ceased to be simple records and has become the essential fuel of innovation. However, for this fuel to really drive new services, more effective public policies or advanced AI models, it is not enough to have large volumes of information: the data…
Limitations to querying an API
Access to data through APIs has become one of the key pieces of today's digital ecosystem. Public administrations, international organizations and private companies publish information so that third parties can reuse it in applications, analyses or artificial intelligence projects. In this situation…
The antidotes to the AI slop: how to rethink our relationship with content
Massive, superficial AI-generated content isn't just a problem, it's also a symptom. Technology amplifies a consumption model that rewards fluidity and drains our attention span.
We listen to interviews, podcasts and audios of our family at 2x. We watch videos cut into highlights, and we base decisi…
Public Domain: Everyone's Cultural Heritage
To speak of the public domain is to speak of free access to knowledge, shared culture and open innovation. The concept has become a key piece in understanding how information circulates and how the common heritage of humanity is built.
In this post we will explore what the public domain means and sh…
Metadata to increase the reuse of open data in machine learning
Open data is a central piece of digital innovation around artificial intelligence as it allows, among other things, to train models or evaluate machine learning algorithms. But between "downloading a CSV from a portal" and accessing a dataset ready to apply machine learning techniques , there i…
From chatbots to autonomous agents: Agent AI in public services
Three years after the acceleration of the massive deployment of Artificial Intelligence began with the launch of ChatGPT, a new term emerges strongly: Agentic AI. In the last three years, we have gone from talking about language models (such as LLMs) and chatbots (or conversational as…
Books to give (or give yourself) this Christmas: a selection to explore ethics, AI and the digital future
Christmas returns every year as an opportunity to stop, breathe and reconnect with what inspires us. From datos.gob.es, we take advantage of these dates to share our traditional letter of recommendations: a selection of books that invite us to better understand the digital world, reflect o…
Real-time geospatial data interoperability: how OGC standards enable real-time data exchange from urban sensors, mobility or weather
Cities, infrastructures and the environment today generate a constant flow of data from sensors, transport networks, weather stations and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, understood as networks of physical devices (digital traffic lights, air quality sensors, etc.) capable of measuring and transm…
Cyber-Physical Systems: the bridge between the real world and open data
We live in an age where more and more phenomena in the physical world can be observed, measured, and analyzed in real time. The temperature of a crop, the air quality of a city, the state of a dam, the flow of traffic or the energy consumption of a building are no longer data that are occasiona…
