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The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities has published a map that includes the current state of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem in Spain. This action is included in the Spanish R + D + I AI Strategy and it is also one of the commitments reached by the Member States of the European Union in accordance with the Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence.

The objective of the map is to promote synergies between Spanish entities and open a path of European and international collaboration, identifying and visualizing Spanish strengths in this area. For this, it collects information from public and private institutions that develop, investigate, use or provide services with AI technologies, both nationally and from autonomous communities and provinces.

Among the information that can be found on the map is the type of activities carried out by the entities (development of AI-based products or applications, creation of coordination networks, etc.), their experience in enabling technologies such as 5G or blockchain , the economic sector in which they carry out their activity or the autonomous community in which they are located. Data related to the percentage of women dedicated to these activities are also included, which helps to understand if there is a gender balance.

Open call for updating

A call has been opened for those companies or organizations that wish to incorporate their information to the maps, in order to ensure that the map has updated information. The call will be open from October 14 to 31. Those entities that want to participate have to follow the following steps:

1. Registration. In order to incorporate information on the map, it is necessary to register with a corporate email account or the entity to register.
2. Info Entidad. Once registered, the user will be able to access the “info entity” menu and complete the information of the organization.
3. Complete form. After filling in the “entity info” section, a new option will appear in the menu, called “Formulario”. Different fields will appear in it, some mandatory and others optional. Data marked as mandatory will be displayed on the map individually, while non-mandatory data will be displayed in an aggregate way.
4. Signature of the legal representative. It will be necessary to have the signature of the legal representative to be able to incorporate the information into the strategy map. It should be noted that once the document has been uploaded with the signature, the information provided cannot be edited.

As of today, the map has information on 154 entities. The idea is updating the map with future calls, forming a photo as realistic as possible about the current panorama of AI capabilities in our country

If you are interested in participating and need more information, you can send an email to mapaestrategiaia@ciencia.gob.es.

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The amount of data we generate does not stop growing. 90% of the data created in the history of humanity were produced during the last year and a 40% annual growth is estimated for the next decade. These figures highlight the importance of data in today's economy and society. The data provide us with knowledge, which facilitate to make the right decisions at the right time.

To optimize the advantages that the use of data can bring to our day to day, an increasing number of organizations and companies are implementing new technologies that help to improve their management and obtain greater value. The report New trends and challenges in the data world analyzes some of these technological and social trends that are revolutionizing the world of data. These technologies are big data and artificial intelligence, decision algorithms, internet of things and blockchain.

The following are some of the main conclusions of the report:

Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

• What is it? The analysis of large volumes of data, from different sources and with different formats, in real time, acquires a new dimension combined with artificial intelligence technologies, which apply reason guidelines to data.
• What are its advantages? Thanks to these technologies, companies and organizations can better understand the current and future functioning of their environment, and face the challenges at the right time. The combination of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data can boost economic growth, respond to citizens needs and optimize public services. In addition, it can contribute to the strengthening of democracy.
• What are its challenges? The lack of talent with the necessary skills, the limitation in current infrastructures and the privacy protection are the main challenges that organizations have to face when implementing a Big Data initiative.

The decision algorithms

• What is it? These are automated agents capable of extracting value from a large volume of data in an agile and efficient way, facilitating automatic decision making.
• What are its advantages? Decision algorithms allow more efficient, transparent and equitable decision making.
• What are its challenges? Among the challenges faced by people in charge of algorithms management is ensuring the quality and availability of data through controls and audits, as well as ensuring their integrity, ethics and independence.

Internet of Things

• What is it?  When we talk about Internet of Things (IoT) we refer to a network of connected objects, by wireless or cable, capable of generating data without human intervention.
• What are its advantages? IoT facilitates processes automation and provides new and multiple forms of interaction that contribute to improving universality and accessibility to services.
• What are its challenges? The main inhibitors of IoT are security and privacy, interoperability and the need for new infrastructures. It is also important to bear in mind that IoT can contribute to increasing the existing gap between different social classes according to their possibilities of data and services access.

Blockchain

• What is it? Blockchain is a distributed database that controls the transfer of digital information. That is, a kind of account book where the records are encrypted and interleaved, so change in one of the blocks affects the others.
• What are its advantages? Its main advantage is the security and privacy of information, the integrity, the sustainability, the transparency and the (quasi) anonymity. This will allow us to transform our political system and enable profound social changes.
• What are its challenges?
• The lack of qualified talent, the regulatory changes, the electronic security of citizens and the limits on institutions ability to adapt the new enviroment are the main challenges highlighted in the report.

Thanks to Big Data and artificial intelligence, decision algorithms, Internet of Things or Blockchain, organizations and companies can extract the necessary value from the data, which will help them to improve services and products for citizens. Although these four technologies are still in a phase of incipient adoption, they are expected to grow rapidly over the next few years, once the above-mentioned challenges are overcome - if you want to delve into these challenges you can read the report New trends and challenges in the world of data.

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On 20 September, the Debate Workshop on applications of Language Technologies will be held addressing the actions carried out within the Language Technologies Promotion Plan (LT Plan) with tools such as the public procurement of innovation services or participation in European programmes. The development of ICT information and communication technologies is generating an enormous volume of electronic textual information that is increasing in an unstoppable way. To take advantage of such electronic information, it must be done automatically. Language Technologies - and within them natural language processing (NLP) - allow the precise automatic understanding of human language, which entails great challenges. Computer systems process numerical data simply, but human language is much more complex because it is accompanied by nuances and meanings that depend on context and non-explicit information. This discipline can be applied to different areas and fields: from automatic machine translation to the retrieval and extraction of relevant information, and from digging for opinions to automatic generation of text summaries, making natural language processing technologies an emerging, innovative industry that has great opportunities for growth.

On Wednesday, 20 September, the activity will also aim to promote the transfer of knowledge and the sharing of opinions among the different professionals in the LT field of public administrations, research centres, universities and companies, as well as to increase knowledge about the language technology situation in other Spanish-speaking countries and to deepen the needs of users and the potential of language technologies in two sectors of particular relevance to the Spanish economy and society: health and tourism. Specifically, promoting the internationalisation of Spanish companies is one of the measures contemplated in the Plan.

In particular, four workshops will be held in the following areas with the participation of numerous experts:

• Coordination of Language Technologies Initiatives between Mexico and Spain
• Harnessing Synergies between Large and Small Companies
• Applications of LT in Tourism
• Health Improvements with the Use of LTs

Transforming electronic textual information into reusable formats and publishing it under open licenses can turn natural language processing (NLP) technologies into a driving force for the language technology industry. In the last 10 years, Google Translate has gone from supporting only a few languages ​​to now supporting 103, translating more than 140 billion words every day, while technology continues advancing at an unstoppable pace from the hand of artificial intelligence towards the development of their own language.

The Debate was organised by SESIAD within the framework of the XXXIII International Conference of Spanish Natural Language Processing Society (SEPLN in Spanish) and will take place in the Auditorium of the Universidad de Murcia. The event will be recorded and will subsequently be made available online at red.es.