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The National Centre for Geographic Information publishes open geospatial data from the National Cartographic System, the National Geographic Institute and other organisations through web applications and mobile applications to facilitate access to and consultation of geographic data by citizens.

Geospatial data is published via web services and APIs for reuse, so in the case of high-value datasets, it can be used in a variety of ways high-value datasets such as geographic names, hydrography or addresses as required by the as required by the EUthe EU has already made these datasets available to the public by June 2024 as they are associated with major benefits for society, the environment and the economy.

But in the applications listed below, the geographic data are visualised and consulted through web services, so that for downloading the data, it is possible to use web services and APIs directly, through a platform accessible to any user with a wide range of geographic information, ranging from topographic maps to satellite images.

But not only data can be reused, also application software is reusable, for example, the Solar Energy Potential of Buildings visualiser which is based on a visualiser API, named API-CNIG and allows the same tool to be used for different thematic areas.

Some examples of applications are:

Solar Energy Potential of Buildings

Provides the photovoltaic capacity of a building according to its location and characteristics. It also provides the average over the year and a point grid to identify the best location for solar panels.

National Geographic Gazetteer

It is a toponym search engine that collects the names, official or standardised by the corresponding competent bodies , with geographical references.

Unified postal address calculator

It is a converter that allows to know the geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude in WGS84) of the postal addresses of a place, and vice versa. In both cases, the input file is a CSV file, supporting both coordinates and postal addresses.

Basic Maps of Spain

It facilitates connection to IGN services and to the CNIG download centre to obtain maps and routes. With this mobile application you can follow the routes of the National Parks or the stages of the Camino de Santiago. It allows you to plan excursions using maps, navigate and take guided tours, without the need for an internet connection after downloading data.

Map a la carte

It allows you to create a customised map using the printed series of the National Topographic Map at scales 1:25.000 and 1:50.000. It offers the possibility of defining its area, incorporating contents, personalising the cover, obtaining a pdf file and even acquiring paper copies by post.

IGN Earthquakes

It allows the reception and visualisation of all seismic events in Spain and its surroundings. It provides the distance to the epicentre of the seismic event and epicentral parameters, as well as the geolocation of the user's position and the epicentre.

Maps of Spain

It is a free mobile viewer ideal for hiking, cycling, running, skiing, etc., which uses as background cartography the services of the National Geographic Institute and another set of services from other Ministries, such as the Cadastral information of the plots provided by the General Directorate of Cadastre.

Camino de Santiago

It includes information of a cultural and practical nature on each of the stages (hostels, monuments, etc.), as well as a complete Pilgrim's Guide detailing what you should know before starting out on any of the routes. This application is based on ESRI software.

National Parks

Displays information on the history, fauna, flora and excursions in Spain's National Parks. It includes hundreds of points of interest such as information centres, accommodation, viewpoints, refuges and even routes through the parks, indicating their duration and difficulty. The app is available for download on Android e iOS. This application is based on ESRI software.

GeoSapiens IGN

It presents interactive maps, free to use and free of charge, to study the physical and political geography of Spain and the world. It consists of different games relating to the whole of Spain or by autonomous communities, the whole world and by continent.

In addition to the applications developed by the CNIG, which are also presented in this video this videothere are many other digital solutions developed by third parties that reuse open geospatial data to offer a service to society. For example, in the list of data reusing applications.gob.es you can find from a map that shows the fires that are active in Spain in real time in Spain in real time to an app that shows where the parking spaces for people with reduced mobility parking spaces for people with reduced mobility in each town.

In short, anyone can make use of the open geographic data of the National Cartographic System, the National Geographic Institute and other bodies published by the CNIG , thus extending the advantages offered by the availability of open geographic data. do you know of any other application resulting from the reuse of open data? You can send it to us at dinamizacion@datos.gob.es

The Multisectoral Information Partnership (ASEDIE) has published the twelfth edition of its "Report on the Infomediary Sector", that reviews the initiatives to boost the data economy in the country. In addition, this edition commemorates the 25th anniversary of the association in the sector.

In the 12th Report on the Data Economy in the infomediary sphere, ASEDIE provides accurate figures on the sector in Spain to continue its annual work of highlighting and conveying its size and importance. The presentation of this edition took place at Madrid International Lab's auditorium on 20 March.

The main findings of the study are summarised below.

 Law 37/2007 on the re-use of public sector information makesto have their own data catalogue compulsory for public administrations which, in turn, would contribute to the national catalogue(datos.gob.es). Some regional portals, in addition to hosting datasets, offer content, organise events and sign partnerships to spread the data culture. We analyse the case of Catalonia with its open data portal and its commitment over the last few years.

Open data in Catalonia: history of the last few years

Since the creation of its first open data portal in 2010, the Generalitat de Catalunya has published almost 1,200 open datasets.

It aims to promote the openness and accessibility of the data it holds, collaborating with various sectors of society, including academia, the private sector and civil society, to maximise the value of open data and encourage its use in decision-making and the development of solutions to current societal challenges.

Along these lines, the Generalitat de Catalunya reached a government agreement on open data strategy. This milestone places the openness and reuse of public information at the heart of the relationship between citizens and the Catalan public administration. Among the objectives of this approach, the document highlights the use of collective intelligence and the creation of public policies taking into account the needs of citizens. Since then, the Government of Catalonia has been committed to promoting its open data portal and encouraging its use, always respecting the principles of data governance.

In this sense, in 2022 the Open Data area became part of the Directorate General for Digital Administration, which conceives data as a strategic asset and lever of change for digital administration, with the ultimate aim of improving the public services offered by this administration. It is at this point that the Open Data area is reinforced by the strategic role of data in the framework of this public administration: open data becomes part of the data lifecycle, as an integral and essential element. Data Governance in the Generalitat de Catalunya is carried out through the Data Governance Model, which establishes the guidelines throughout the organisation, promotes the impulse of the data culture and involves all the key agents that must participate in this transformation process.

The document also includes the commitment of the Generalitat de Catalunya to adhere to the principles of the International Open Data Charter promoted by the Open Data Charter (ODC) network, in which more than 170 governments around the world currently participate, and which aims to integrate the culture and practice of open data in governments. Taking into account what ODC states in its International Charter, the data should be:

• Open by default
• Updated
• Accessible and reusable
• Comparable and interoperable
• To improve governance and citizen participation
• For inclusive development and innovation

The Government of Catalonia's commitment to opening up public sector data and promoting reuse was also evident in 2020 when it joined the Open Government Partnership. This organisation, which is committed to transparent, participatory, inclusive and accountable governance, is a global benchmark in terms of highlighting the use of open data for the betterment of society.

The same year in which Open Data Catalunya joins ODC, they also launched the first session of Cafè amb Dades: a series of informative talks in person and online in which a topic related to open data in the Generalitat de Catalunya is addressed.

Cafè amb Dades: a space to spread information about open data

These events organised by the Catalan open data portal are a space designed to share experiences and knowledge about open data and related topics. The lectures last two hours, are held in person and virtually, and the topics addressed depend on the topicality and/or interest of the audience, who can propose their ideas through a contact mailbox. The Àrea de Dades Obertes de la Direcció General d'Administració Digital organises these events based on the following values:

• Pedagogy: to raise awareness of the Catalan Government's open data strategy and its impact in different areas.
• Dynamism: offer short presentations with content that can be understood by everyone.
• Online work: organise participatory, open sessions that invite dialogue to create community.
• Application: to encourage attendees to incorporate the use of open data in their daily lives.

All sessions are recorded and available to the public. The last ones that have been held dealt with such relevant issues as water management using open data or data with a gender perspective.

Facilitating understanding of the data

The Generalitat de Catalunya recognises the importance of publishing data and facilitating searches, as well as promoting understanding of the data. With the aim of facilitating the search for data by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Government of Catalonia has classified the datasets on the portal by each of the SDGs , which can be accessed from a data viewer.

This classification also provides information on how departmental activity is being aligned around the SDGs and facilitates the search and re-use of SDG-related datasets.

Commitment to the dissemination of data culture

The portal of the autonomous community of Catalonia, in addition to hosting more than a thousand open datasets and disseminating face-to-face and virtual events on the application of its datasets in different areas, offers:

• Content that disseminates the data culture:
  
  • Web sessions, with all the digital news of the administration explained in 30-minute videos presented on the first Thursday of each month.
  • Interviews with experts on open data issues.
  • Specialised publications on eGovernment and Open Government.
  • News, which includes the latest news from the sector.
• Participation and representation in activities such as:
  
  • Open Government Week
  •  Open Data Day events
• Awareness-raising projects and collaboration with civil society
• Interaction with the reuser community
  
  • Contact via a request form
  • Information and resources for developers

The Generalitat de Catalunya's inventory of datasets

On the other hand, the Generalitat de Catalunya, in the process of opening up public data, has carried out an inventory of data, the first phase of which ended in 2022. This inventory, conceived as a single, ordered and descriptive register of datasets, aim to coordinate the data opening processes of this administration.

In this first phase, the inventory provided a tool for easy consultation of all available datasets and their descriptive information, as well as a cross-sectional view of the available information and a single language throughout the organisation.

Work is currently underway on a second phase of the project, which involves updating and maintaining the information collected in the inventory, as well as extending it to public sector entities.

If you don't want to miss anything, you can follow the Catalan open data portal on Twitter.

In summary, the Generalitat de Catalunya has a government agreement on open data strategy, a data governance model in place and a presence in international organisations such as the Open Data Charter or the Open Government Partnership. Its commitment to access and reuse of open data makes it one of the leading public administrations in Spain.

At datos.gob.es we echo the good practices in open data and related technologies that exist throughout Spain. If you would like us to discuss your initiative, please write to us at dinamizacion@datos.gob.es.

This application designed for iOS devices offers a wide range of tourist activities in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León. It acts as a travel assistant, allowing you to create an itinerary according to the interests of each user.

TUrMISMO allows you to discover activities to do in the area, save your favourite places or plans, and trace your own route. To do this, it offers geolocated information on places as diverse as tourist offices, restaurants and wineries, organised excursions and ski schools, among many others.

The app was presented this year 2024 to the VII Open Data Competition of Castilla y León and uses open data provided by the Junta de Castilla y León.

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 digital and social transformation. With this approach and also following the European Open Data Directive, the European Commission concluded that in order to achieve a digital and economic boost, the power of public administrations' data should be harnessed, i.e. its availability, quality and usability should be increased. This is how BDTI was born, with the purpose of encouraging the reuse of this information by providing a free analysis test environment that allows public administrations to prototype solutions in the cloud before implementing them in the production environment of their own facilities.

What tools does BDTI offer?

Big Data Test Infrastructure offers European public administrations a set of standard open source tools for storing, processing and analysing their data. The platform consists of virtual machines, analysis clusters, storage and network facilities. The tools it offers are:

• Databases: to store data and perform queries on the stored data. The BDTI currently includes a relational database(PostgreSQL), a document-oriented database(MongoDB) and a graph database(Virtuoso).
• Data lake: for storing large amounts of structured and unstructured data (MinIO). Unstructured raw data can be processed with deployed configurations of other building blocks (BDTI components) and stored in a more structured format within the data lake solution.
• Development environments: provide the computing capabilities and tools necessary to perform standard data analysis activities on data from external sources, such as data lakes and databases.
  
  • JupyterLab, an interactive, online development environment for creating Jupyter notebooks, code and data.
  • Rstudio, an integrated development environment for R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics.
  • KNIME, an open source data integration, reporting and analytics platform with machine learning and data mining components, can be used for the entire data science lifecycle.
  • H2O.ai, an open sourcemachine learning ( ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to simplify and accelerate the creation, operation and innovation with ML and AI in any environment.
• Advanced processing: clusters and tools can also be created to process large volumes of data and perform real-time search operations(Apache Spark, Elasticsearch and Kibana)
• Display: BDTI also offers data visualisation applications such as Apache Superset, capable of handling petabyte-scale data, or Metabase.
• Orchestration: for the automation of data-driven processes throughout their lifecycle, from preparing data to making data-driven decisions and taking actions based on those decisions, is offered:
  
  • Apache Airflow, an open source workflow management platform that allows complex data pipelines to be easily scheduled and executed.

Through these cloud-based tools, public workers in EU countries can create their own pilot projects to demonstrate the value that data can bring to innovation. Once the project is completed, users have the possibility to download the source code and data to continue the work themselves, using environments of their choice. In addition, civil society, academia and the private sector can participate in these pilot projects, as long as there is a public entity involved in the use case.

Success stories

These resources have enabled the creation of various projects in different EU countries. Some examples of use cases can be found on the BDTI website. For example, Eurostat carried out a pilot project using open data from internet job advertisements to map the situation of European labour markets. Other success stories included the optimisation of public procurement by the Norwegian Agency for Digitisation, data sharing efforts by the European Blood Alliance and work to facilitate understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on the city of Florence .

In Spain, BDTI enabled a data mining project atthe  Conselleria de Sanitat de la Comunidad Valenciana. Thanks to BDTI, knowledge could be extracted from the enormous amount of scientific clinical articles, a task that supported clinicians and managers in their clinical practices and daily work.

Courses, newsletter and other resources

 In addition to publishing use cases, theBig Data Test Infrastructure website offers an free online course to learn how to get the most out of BDTI. This course focuses on a highly practical use case: analysing the financing of green projects and initiatives in polluted regions of the EU, using open data from data.europa.eu and other open sources.

In addition, a monthly  newsletter on the latest BDTI news, best practices and data analytics opportunities for the public sector has recently been launched .

In short, the re-use of public sector data (RISP) is a priority for the European Commission and BDTI(Big Data Test Infrastructure) is one of the tools contributing to its development. If you work in the public administration and you are interested in using BDTI register here.

The Provincial Council of Bizkaia the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the Bilbao City Council collaborate in the Bilbao Bizkaia Open Data Classroom an initiative that aims to develop the use of open data from the two Biscayan institutions (Provincial Council and City Council) for use in university projects. The ultimate goal is that, thanks to this re-use, public services can be improved and new knowledge can be generated to contribute to the resolution of social problems.

The initiative, aimed at university students as well as teaching and research staff, was born as a way to research staff, was born as a a collaboration agreement between the three administrations (Provincial Council of Bizkaia, Bilbao City Council and UPV/EHU). For this purpose, other agreements made with the Bilbao School of Engineering for the creation of Business Classrooms were taken as a reference, but in this case it will be an open data classroom, which will promote the opening of data generated and the reuse of public information.

The Bilbao Bizkaia Open Data Classroom has been in operation since 2022 and its operation is similar to that of the twelve Business Classrooms that were already in operation at the Bilbao School of Engineering. These company classrooms are laboratory-classrooms within the school, created and financed by companies and institutions to promote their innovation activities. In this sense, as the organisers of the Aula state, "they are an effective instrument of collaboration between the Departments of the Bilbao School of Engineering and the business world, both in activities related to research, technological development and innovation and in everything related to training".

Open data for innovation in the classroom

 In addition to developing projects based on the reuse of open data that improve the services provided by the regional and municipal authorities, the Aula also creates data visualisations based on open information processing initiatives proposed by the university community with the aim of improving the welfare of citizens. Another of its areas of work is the implementation of training activities that contribute to the improvement of the digital skills of the university community.

During the first edition of the Bilbao-Bizkaia Open Data Classroom, in the 2022-2023 academic year, the students developed projects on the reuse of data on recycling or outdoor activities, among others. All of them were created using regional data. You can consult the projects here: https://sites.google.com/view/opendatabilbaobizkaia/home?authuser=0.

How can I join Aula Open Data Bilbao-Bizkaia?

The Aula Open data Bilbao Bizkaia has its own space in the headquarters of the Bilbao School of Engineering, in San Mamés. This space has been fitted out thanks to a grant awarded by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the City Council of Bilbao, which also collaborate by financing the management costs of the classroom.

The programme is aimed at engineering bachelor's and master's degree students carrying out their bachelor's and master's degree final projects, respectively. However, it is not necessary to be in the final year of a Bachelor's or Master's degree to participate in the Aula. The initiative is open to anyone with an interest in data.

Training in Power BI and data analysis toolsis provided at the beginning of the course.

The programme is free of charge, and students working under the agreement are paid. The selection process is by CV.

In the following link you can find all the information about the Classroom.

https://www.aulaopendatabilbaobizkaia.eus/aula_es.html

After months of new developments, the pace of advances in artificial intelligence does not seem to be slowing down - quite the contrary. A few weeks ago, when reviewing the latest developments in this field on the occasion of the 2023 deadline, video generation from text instructions was considered to be still in its infancy. However, just a few weeks later, we have seen the announcement of SORA. With this tool, it seems that the possibility to generate realistic videos, up to one minute long, from textual descriptions is here.

Every day, the tools we have access to become more sophisticated and we are constantly amazed by their ability to perform tasks that once seemed exclusive to the human mind. We have quickly become accustomed to generating text and images from written instructions and have incorporated these tools into our daily lives to enhance and improve the way we do our jobs. With each new development, pushing the boundaries a little further than we imagined, the possibilities seem endless.

Advances in Artificial Intelligence, powered by open data and other technologies such as those associated with the Web3, are helping to rethink the future of virtually every field of our activity: from solutions to address the challenges of climate change, to artistic creation, be it music, literature or painting[6], to medical diagnosis, agriculture or the generation of trust to drive the creation of social and economic value.

In this article we will review the developments that impact on a field where, in the coming years, interesting advances are likely to be made thanks to the combination of artificial intelligence and open data. We are talking about the design and planning of smarter, more sustainable and liveable cities for all their inhabitants.

Urban Planning and Management

Urban planning and management is complicated because countless complex interactions need to be anticipated, analysed and resolved. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect major breakthroughs from the analysis of the data that cities increasingly open up on mobility, energy consumption, climatology and pollution, planning and land use, etc. New techniques and tools provided by generative artificial intelligence combined, for example, with intelligent agents will allow a deeper interpretation and simulation of urban dynamics.

In this sense, this new combination of technologies could be used for example to design more efficient, sustainable and liveable cities, anticipating the future needs of the population and dynamically adapting to changes in real time. Thus, new smart urban models would be used to optimise everything from traffic flow to resource allocation by simulating behaviour through intelligent agents.

Figure 1: Images generated by Urbanistai.com

 

Urbanist.ai is one of the first examples of an advanced urban analytics platform, based on generative artificial intelligence, that aims to transform the way urban planning tasks are currently conceived.  The services it currently provides already allow the participatory transformation of urban spaces from images, but its ambition goes further and it plans to incorporate new techniques that redefine the way cities are planned. There is even a version of UrbanistAI designed to introduce children to the world of urban planning.

Going one step further, the generation of 3D city models is something that tools such as InfiniCity have already made available to users. Although there are still many challenges to be overcome, the results are promising. These technologies could make it substantially cheaper to generate digital twins on which to run simulations that anticipate problems before they are built.

Available data

However, as with other developments based on Generative AI, these issues would not be possible without data, and especially not without open data.  All new developments in AI use a combination of private and public data in their training, but in few cases is the training dataset known with certainty, as it is not made public. Data can come from a wide variety of sources, such as IoT sensors, government records or public transport systems, and is the basis for providing a holistic view of how cities function holistic view of how cities function and how and how their inhabitants interact with the urban environment.

The growing importance of open data in training these models is reflected in initiatives such as the Task Force on AI Data Assets and Open Government, launched by the US Department of Commerce, which will be tasked with preparing open public data for Artificial Intelligence. This means not only machine-readable formats, but also machine-understandable metadata. With open data enriched by metadata and organised in interpretable formats, artificial intelligence models could yield much more accurate results.

A long-established and basic data source is OpenStreetmap (OSM), a collaborative project that makes a free and editable map of open global geographic dataavailable to the community. It includes detailed information on streets, squares, parks, buildings, etc. which is crucial as a basis for urban mobility analysis, transport planning or infrastructure management. The immense cost of developing such a resource is only within the reach of large technology companies, making it invaluable to all initiatives that use it as a basis.

 

Figure 2: OpenStreetmap Images (OSM)

 

More specific datasets such as HoliCity, a 3D data asset with rich structural information, including 6,300 real-world views, are proving valuable. For example, recent scientific work based on this dataset has shown that it is possible for a model fed with millions of street images to predict neighbourhood characteristics, such as home values or crime rates.

Along these lines, Microsoft has released an extensive collection of building contours automatically generated from satellite imagery, covering a large number of countries and regions.

 

Figure 3: Urban Atlas Images (OSM)

Microsoft Building Footprints provide a detailed basis for 3D city modelling, urban density analysis, infrastructure planning and natural hazard management, giving an accurate picture of the physical structure of cities.

We also have Urban Atlas, an initiative that provides free and open access to detailed land use and land cover information for more than 788 Functional Urban Areas in Europe. It is part of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Serviceprogramme, and provides valuable insights into the spatial distribution of urban features, including residential, commercial, industrial, green areas and water bodies, street tree maps, building block height measurements, and even population estimates.

Risks and ethical considerations

However, we must not lose sight of the risks posed, as in other domains, by the incorporation of artificial intelligence into the planning and management of cities, as discussed in the UN report on "Risks, Applications and Governance of AI for Cities". For example, concerns about privacy and security of personal information raised by mass data collection, or the risk of algorithmic biases that may deepen existing inequalities. It is therefore essential to ensure that data collection and use is conducted in an ethical and transparent manner, with a focus on equity and inclusion.

This is why, as city design moves towards the adoption of artificial intelligence, dialogue and collaboration between technologists, urban planners, policy makers and society at large will be key to ensuring that smart city development aligns with the values of sustainability, equity and inclusion. Only in this way can we ensure that the cities of the future

are not only more efficient and technologically advanced, but also more humane and welcoming for all their inhabitants.

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Content prepared by Jose Luis Marín, Senior Consultant in Data, Strategy, Innovation & Digitalization. The contents and views reflected in this publication are the sole responsibility of the author.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of targets adopted by the international community aimed at addressing the most pressing challenges of our time. These goals were born simultaneously with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the International Open Data Charter, which provided a coalition of experts willing to harness the benefits of open data for the new development agenda.

In this regard, open data plays a very relevant role within the development agenda as indicators of progress towards the SDGs, as they allow measuring and evaluating their progress, as well as improving accountability through sharing that data with the rest of the community, providing great value in multiple ways:

• Facilitating decision-making when designing policies and strategies to help meet the objectives;
• Identifying inequalities and specific challenges among different regions or population groups;
• Improving efficiency in policy and program implementation;
• As an engine of innovation through research and development.

Today, there are large global databases, both generalist and thematic, that we can use for these purposes, in addition to all the national data sources available in our own country. However, there is still a long way to go in this regard: the proportion of SDG indicators that are conceptually clear and have good national coverage is still 66%, according to the latest SDG progress report published in 2023. This leads us to continue facing data gaps in vital areas such as poverty, hunger, education, equality, sustainability, climate, seas, and justice, among others. Additionally, there is also a fairly general and significant lack of data disaggregated by age and/or sex, making it very difficult to properly monitor the potential progress of the objectives regarding the most vulnerable population groups.

This report takes a journey through the dual role that open data plays in supporting national and global progress in achieving the SDGs. The first part of the report focuses on the better-known role of open data as mere indicators when measuring progress towards the objectives, while the second part addresses its role as a key tool and fundamental raw material for the development of society in general and for the achievement of the objectives themselves in particular. To this end, it explores which datasets could have the greatest potential in each case, showing some practical examples, both national and at the European level, in various specific development objectives.

If you want to learn more about the content of this report, you can watch the interview with its author.

The awards ceremony for the seventh edition of the Castilla y León open data competition was held on Monday 12 February seventh edition of the Castilla y León open data competition, which aims to recognise and value the good use of open dataas well as promoting and encouraging its use and exploitation.

The competition, which has been running since 2016, aims to to raise interest in open data and the and the multiple economic possibilities associated with it. In this way, the initiative, organised by the Regional Ministry of the Presidency of the Junta de Castilla y Leónthe initiative, organised by the Regional Ministry of the Presidency of Castile and Leon, recognises projects that generate ideas, studies, services, websites or mobile applications. As has been the case in previous editions, the common denominator of the entries in this competition is the use of datasets from the Open Data Portal of the Junta de Castilla y León.

Thirty-two entries were submitted in this call, of which eight were awarded in one of the four categories eight of them have been awarded in one of the four categories: Ideas, Products and Services, Didactic Resource and Data Journalism.

Eight award-winning projects in this edition of the competition

The winners in the different categories, chosen from the 32 entries submitted, were:

Category Ideas:

• First prize of 1500 €: Health supply in Castilla y León / Dashboard - Author: Almudena María Moreno Maderuelo.
  
  • Scorecard related to public health in Castilla y León, based on open data.
• Second prize of 500 €: "Geographical names and their oral transmission" - Author: Guillermo Herrero Gacimartín.
  
  • An idea to take advantage of open data to promote the conservation and dissemination of the wealth of geographical names and histories of the peoples of our autonomous community.

Category Products and Services:

• First prize of 2500 €: EnergyCyl. Boosting energy efficiency through energy analysis in Castilla y León  - Author: David Aparicio Sanz.
  
  • Web application that compiles, analyses and provides detailed information on the energy sector in the autonomous community of Castilla y León.
• Second prize 1500 €: Active Territories Project.Webmapping for the characterisation and sustainable promotion of innovative initiatives in the rural environment of Castilla y León - Authors: Víctor Pérez Eguíluz, María A. Castrillo Romón, Elvira Khairulina, José Luis Lalana Soto and Enrique Rodrigo González.
  
  • Website of the "Territorios Activos" project to study innovation in the context of rural environments in the autonomous community of Castilla y León.
• Third prize 500 €: Anomalous pattern monitoring for operational optimisation of logistics infrastructures - Author: Unai Beristain.
  
  • Open data and IoT solution for logistics management and early detection of anomalous patterns in logistics infrastructures. 3D web map based on open data.
• Student prizes of €1500: Offers for young people in Castilla y León - Authors: Ismael Martín Moakil, Alberto Herrero Jiménez, Oscar Antona Gutierrez, Daniel Herranz Herranz, Alberto Aguilar García, Joel Garrido Hernández, Rafael Martín Domínguez and Alonso Gallego. IES Alonso de Madrigal (Ávila).
  
  • App for Android that allows you to find out about discounts and promotions for young people with the Carnet Joven de Castilla y León (Youth Card of Castilla y León)

Didactic Resource Category:

• First prize: 1500 €: CHEST: an application to support the creation and reuse of ubiquitous educational experiences related to cultural heritage around the world - Authors: Pablo García Zarza, Guillermo Vega Gorgojo, Miguel L. Bote Lorenzo, Juan I. Asensio Pérez, Eduardo Gómez Sánchez and Yannis Dimitriadis.
  
  • Application to support teachers in the design and implementation of ubiquitous learning when teaching subjects related to cultural heritage.

Data Journalism Category:

• First prize of 1500 €: what is life like without a bar? How the villages manage to play the game - Authors: Ana Isabel Ruíz Espinar, Marta Ley and Guillermo Cid.
  
  • Journalistic article that analyses how the existence of hotel and catering establishments affects the municipalities of Castilla y León.

The Junta de Castilla y León has published a list of all the projects that entered the competition, available on its website: https://datosabiertos.jcyl.es/web/es/concurso-datos-abiertos/proyectos-presentados.html

During the awards ceremony, the Minister of the Presidency of the Junta de Castilla y León, Luis Miguel González Gago, insisted on the premise of continuing to improve the presentation and accessibility of open data accessibility of open data. In this sense, the aim is to improve the visualisation of the data presented by all the departments of the Junta de Castilla y León, which in a homogeneous and coordinated way will use the same presentation schemes so that they can be easily located, understood and interpreted easily located, understood and interpreted by citizens by citizens. A commitment to interoperability.

This mobile application developed by the City Council of Ourense allows you to consult updated information about the city: news, notices or upcoming events on different topics such as: 

• Arts and festivities: Cultural events organized by the city council.
• Tourism: Information about thermal facilities, tourist attractions, heritage, routes and gastronomy.
• Notifications: Real time notifications about possible traffic cuts, opening of monuments or other specific issues.  
• Information: Data of general interest such as emergency telephone numbers or citizen services of the city council. 

The mOUbil app, developed through local open data sets, unifies all the information of interest to the neighbors of Ourense, as well as tourists who want to know the city. In addition, anyone can make suggestions for improvement on the application through this form: Queries and Suggestions (ourense.gal).  

Your download is available for both Android mOUbil - Ourense no peto! - Apps in Google Play and iOS: moubil - Ourense no peto! in App Store (apple.com)