The second edition of Asedie's top 3, available in seven autonomous communities

The Multisectorial Association of Information (ASEDIE), which brings together the infomediary companies of our country, once again includes among its annual objectives the promotion of the reuse of public and private information. Thus, and almost in parallel to the beginning of the new year, last December, ASEDIE shared the progress that the top 3 has experienced in most of the autonomous communities, and the good expectations for the second edition.

Since this initiative was launched last 2019 to promote the opening of three datasets by the autonomous communities, they have been gradually opening datasets that have improved access to information sources, while helping to boost the development of services and applications based on open data. The objective of this project, which in 2021 was included as a commitment to Best Practices in the Observatory of the IV Open Government Plan and supported by the seventeen Autonomous Communities, is to harmonize the opening of Public Sector databases with the aim of encouraging their reuse, promoting the development of the data economy.

First edition: accessible in fifteen autonomous communities

The first edition of Asedie's Top 3 was a success not only because of the datasets selected, but also because of the openness rate achieved four years later. Currently, fifteen of the country's seventeen autonomous communities have managed to open all three databases to the general public: cooperatives, foundations and associations.

2023: the year to complete the opening of the second edition

With the aim of continuing to promote the opening of public information in the different autonomous communities, in 2020, ASEDIE launched a new edition of the top 3 so that those communities that had already overcome the previous challenge could continue to make progress. Thus, for this second edition the selected databases were the following:

• Energy Efficiency Certificates
• Industrial Estates
• Agricultural Transformation Companie

As a result, the second edition of the top 3 is now accessible in seven autonomous communities. Moreover, the databases related to energy efficiency certificates, an increasingly required information at European level, are now openly available in all the autonomous communities of the Spanish geography.

Next steps: extending the commitment to open data

As it could not be otherwise, one of ASEDIE's main annual objectives is to continue promoting regional collaboration in order to complete the opening of the second edition of the top 3 in the rest of the autonomous communities. In parallel, the next edition of the ASEDIE Report will be made public on March 22, taking advantage of the Open Administration Week. As on other occasions, this document will serve to take stock of the milestones achieved in the previous year, as well as to list the new challenges.

In fact, in relation to open data, the ASEDIE report is a very useful tool when it comes to broadening knowledge in this area of expertise, as it includes a list of successful cases of infomediary companies and examples of the products and services they produce.

In short, thanks to initiatives such as those developed by ASEDIE, public-private collaboration is becoming more and more constant and tangible, making it easier for companies to reuse public information.