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The collaborative project Ciudades Abiertas organize a workshop cycle to disseminate the results obtained throughout the execution of this project. Throughout the project, various tools and solutions have been developed that are to be made known so that other regions can implement them.

What is Ciudades Abiertas?

Ciudades Abiertas is a collaborative project led by four municipalities (A Coruña, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela and Zaragoza) in collaboration with Red.es.

Its main objective is to offer city councils technological tools that allow the development of new reusable initiatives by other organizations. In this way, they seek to facilitate interoperability between administrations, the publication of open data, transparency and the participation of citizens.

Among its lines of action is the promotion of open data. The project provides the technical and conceptual means necessary for the “management of shared unique data, open by default, georeferenced and semantically annotated by the city”. It also offers a vocabularies catalog and common and open data structures on Github for free use. You can learn more about their performances at this article and on their own Web page.

Who are the workshops aimed at?

The workshops are aimed both at representatives of different organizations and at all citizens interested in attending.

In the case of organizations, they will be provided with the necessary information so that they can implement the solutions in their own initiatives.

When will the cycle of workshops be held?

The cycle organized by Open Cities consists of 6 workshops that will be held throughout the month of October, the first beginning on the 6th. All of them will be held virtually. To be able to attend, it is essential to make a prior registration individually in each of the workshops in which you want to participate.

In the first workshop there will be a presentation of the project and the lines of action carried out within it. The rest of the workshops will address specific aspects, linked to the different lines of action.

Next, we show you the complete calendar of workshops:

Workshop 1: Open Cities, a boost for open government policies

Date: 10/06/2021

Hour: 10:00

Duration: 2h

Workshop 2: Standardization in access to open data

Date: 10/07/2021

Hour: 16:00

Duration: 2h

Workshop 3: Vocabularies, a key element of interoperability

Date: 10/14/2021

Hour: 10:00

Duration: 2h

Workshop 4: Development of visualizations on open data

Date: 10/19/2021

Hour: 10:00

Duration: 2h

Workshop 5: Transparency from the perspective of open data

Date: 10/21/2021

Hour: 16:00

Duration: 2h

Workshop 6: Methodology for the implementation of participatory processes in cities

Date: 10/27/2021

Hour: 10:00

Duration: 2h

If you need more information about the cycle organized by Ciudades Abiertas or about the project, you can contact the organization through the email address contacto@ciudadesabiertas.es

DataLab Madrid organizes a new edition of Visualizar'18, a data visualization workshop. Its objective is to create a spaces for collaborative work, knowledge exchange and theoretical and practical training to investigate the social, cultural and artistic implications of data culture, opening up avenues for participation and criticism.

The meeting will take place from September 21 to October 5 at Medialab Prado. On this occasion, the event will revolve around the power of personal data. Citizens’ concerns about this issue continue growing in a year marked by the entry into force of GDPR or scandals such as Cambridge Analytica. Therefore, it is a good opportunity to develop projects that enrich the debate on privacy and the use of our personal data.

The workshop will have 3 parts: an opening day, a workshop focused on the development of ideas and a final presentation. The opening day will take place on Friday, September 21 and Saturday, September 22. Those days, organizers will introduce the workshop, the selected projects and the teams’ members, and the exhibition The Glass Room will be inaugurated. The following days, it will be time for the workshop, where the different groups will work together for developing their projects. The results will be presented on Friday, October 5.

The 6 selected projects are:

• A-9. Black Eyes: The project consists of a video-installation whit a map that integrates roads from all over the world. The user can interact directly with the work by selecting any point on the map to view real-time imagen. The objective is to raise awareness about the power of information and its influence in a globalized world.
• Microblogs and micropolitics: Participants will be able to export, scrape, encode and visualize, in an original way, the personal data that they daily produce on their public Twitter timeline. If time permits, the process will be repeated with data from public institutions and elected politicians.
• My [inte] gration. This project seeks to change the perception of the migration crisis based on the data. Through big data and thick data technologies, the rights and needs of migrants, refugees, minorities and vulnerable communities will be analyzed, with the ultimate goal of creating spaces, cities and inclusive policies. Although the proposal focuses on the city of Madrid, it is intended to be scaled to other cities and regions.
• Bad Data Challenge. During this Project, the participants will investigate erroneous data problems (that is, data sets that contain lost data, incompatible data, corrupt data, outdated data, etc.), using various tools and methodologies.
• Personal Data Game. This project want to create a board game with modeled visualizations of personal data in order to raise awareness about this topic. Those data (physical characteristics, identification properties, social features, political ideas, etc.) will give rise to attractive objects that complement each other or not. The objective of the game is to cross the board keeping the greatest amount of personal data, protecting them from the enemy (who can steal or exchange them).
• The big G and his henchmen. Those people who participate in this project will be able to develop a web tool to know what personal information store the different applications. Once this information is gathered, the participants will develop a webcomic to show how the devices collect data from users through mobile devices.

In addition, during the event various lectures and workshops will take place, as well as a meeting of citizen initiatives for privacy and personal data security.

Those people who wish to participate in visualize'18, can still sign up as collaborators. Registration, which is free up to 30 participants, will be open until Wednesday 19 at 23:59 CEST.

On Friday, April 21, a workshop dedicated to data science in the social and health sector will take place in Media-Lab Prado, Madrid. A meeting designed for professionals and researchers specialized in the data analysis for social purposes and belonging to the health science.

The event will start with a specific session on the analysis of urban mobility through big data, followed by two talks related to the healthcare sector under the titles "Big4Cast: prediction of crisis in bipolar disorder" and "machine learning in EGG predictive analysis ".

As a clousure of the day, the attendees will be able to learn about the work of other experts in the field through the poster exhibition that will take place during the workshop. Those professionals who have sent their pieces of work to vlopezlo@ucm.es will obtain the corresponding certificate. Afterwards, a round table will be held where five representatives of public and private entities will discuss on the following topics:

• Social development with maps (ESRI España).

• Healthcare research (Fujitsu).

• Madrid Salud (WAP).

• Innovation in the cloud (AWS).

• Open Data (City of Madrid).

To attend at the workshop, participants need to register before through the Eventbrite webpage. 

In 2015, the European Commission launched the European Data Portal (EDP) to increase the accessibility of open data in Europe. One of the key goals of this platform is acting as a competence centre to conduct research and provide training in the field of open data. In addition, after the launch of the EDP portal, the pan-European initiative regularly publishes studies and reports to focus on the re-use of public sector information, and identify best practices in the field of data publication. These and other EDP initiatives contribute to the spread the positive impact of the open data sector, which last year generated a market valued at 55.3 billion euros within the European Union +28, which is expected to increase up to 36.9% by 2020.

Taking into account the European context as a reference for other nations, this week, from 20 to 21 March, a workshop on the benefits of open data will be held in Belgium, organized by the DG CONNECT team of the European Commission. With the motto “From open data policies to the reuse of public sector information”, the aim of this workshop, aimed at countries in Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, is to explore the benefits of open data and explain in depth to the participating states the importance of having a policy dedicated to open data.

During two days, the workshop will touch upon the most relevant technical and policy matters and serve as a community-building and awareness raising exercise on the positive impact of open data. The event will also be attended by European representatives of public bodies as Daniele Rizzi, responsible for the open data policy of the European Commission. The experts will share their knowledge and experience carrying out state initiatives on open data and re-use of public sector information; providing advice on technical solutions for the publication of government data and tips for developing open data strategies.

The representative of Iniciativa Aporta at the Red.es, Jose Ignacio Sánchez, Deputy Director of Smart Cities and Open Data of this Public Business Entity, will collaborate as a speaker in the workshop explaining, through the Spanish example, the steps to launch a national open data initiative. Spain, together with the United Kingdom, is a leader in the open data sector in the EU, so its experience can be really useful for countries starting in the open data movement.

This workshop will be a good opportunity to networking with public representatives from non-European countries who wish to advance their open data strategies. Through international collaboration, it is possible to consolidate the movement around the world, combining synergies to jointly face the challenges of opening up information and finding solutions that help increase the benefits of reusing data.

On 22 and 23 February, a seminar organized by representatives of the European Data Portal (EDP) and the Open Data Institute took place in Madrid, where ten public data representatives from Spain, Germany and Italy were gathered. The goals of the sessions were aimed at identifying the common challenges, refining strategies for addressing challenges through peer learning and examples of best practice and identifying opportunities for future collaborations. This workshop is part of EDP's commitments to promoting the knowledge on the openness and re-use of public sector information and strengthening the networking in the European sector. 

On the first day, attendees presented the state of the art of the open data initiative in their respective countries. Thus, in the case of Germany, in September a new open data normative, currently under review, will be adopted to make the public data collected by federal agencies be open by default. In addition, this country has recently joined the Open Government Partnership, an opportunity for the German government to improve communication with users and civic organizations.

Italy has reinforced in its legislative framework the commercial use of public data according to the guidelines referred in Directive 2013/37/EU on the re-use of public sector information. At the same time, it is working on the incorporation of the regional open data portals into the national catalogue, with special attention to geographic data, and the elaboration of publication guidelines according to the CC-BY-4.0 license and aligned with DCAT-AP_IT.

As the host country of the event, the representatives of Iniciativa Aporta analyzed the Spanish infomediary sector in the workshop, its opportunities and barriers, and they shared with the rest of the participants the international collaborative projects in which they are working, as well as the national events organized to stimulate and strengthen the open data culture in Spain.

During the second part of the day, participants discussed on the main challenges of the European PSI sector, identifying as the main challenges standardization, impact measurement, effective use of data, local implementation of open data strategies, cultural barriers and the sustainability of local portals.

Divided into different groups, the first of them focused on the standardization of open information. In this way, it was suggested that the greatest problem of standards lies in vocabularies and in the need to work from the local level towards higher levels, as in the case of Smart Cities in Spain. At the same time, the second group worked on cultural barriers and possible actions to address this obstacle, such as the development of capacities in the administrations and the community, the identification of key concepts (economic impact) or strengthening ties among the different stakeholders of the open data community.

During the second day, the results of the three last reports elaborated by EDP were shown: Open Data Maturity in Europe 2016, Recommendations for open data portals: from setup to sustainability and Re-using open data: a study on companies transforming open data into economic and societal value. 

Then, it was the turn of the session dedicated to national coordination and the possible challenges faced in the different levels of administrative management. Each country made a presentation on this subject, where they discussed how the different initiatives - local, regional, national - are coordinated in the case of Spain, or the difficulties of the decentralization of open data policies in Germany depending on each federal state.

Finally, the workshop concluded with a special session in which creating a future action plan for each of the participating nations in the event that, in the case of Spain, is aimed at improving the quality of information and measuring the impact of open data published by the public sector.

This workshop has been a good opportunity to bring together European public experts on open data and re-use of information and share their national experiences. This reinforces the idea that, thanks to international collaboration, it is possible to enrich and apply the common knowledge to continue working, from the Public Administration, in the promotion of open data and the capacity development, increasing the impact of open data.

In June 2013, the European Union published the EU directive 2013/37 amending the scope of the re-use of public sector information including those data belonging to public bodies such as libraries, museums and archives. This legislative change and its implementation meant a great challenge for cultural institutions in Europe: turning all the content into reusable formats and making it available under an open license to be reused.

Apart from the difficulties of transforming a cultural resource as a book, a piece of art or a photograph into data, that information with its metadata must be prepared to be accessible and reusable for third parties. Nevertheless, as claimed by Ana Álvarez Lacambra and César Iglesias Rebollo in their post From the digitalization to open data: the challenge for cultural institutions  the openness of such data offers many advantages: from increasing the visibility of cultural institutions, helping spread their content and materials, supporting their digital transformation, improving  internal management to promoting the cooperation between different bodies.

After all, opening up the cultural content is the next step to the computerized cataloging and digitization that cultural institutions have been carrying out for years to share resources not only internally but with the rest of society as a whole .

In this context, on October 5, on the occasion of the International Open Data Conference, the pre-event Open Data and Culture will take place. The Spanish National Library (BNE) will host this meeting designed to promote the openness of information within the national cultural sector, foster public-private cooperation and create a discussion forum to draw a common policy for cultural institutions in Spain.

Organised by Spanish National Library, the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Red.es (Spanish Ministry of Industry) together with SEDIC (Spanish Society of Information and Scientific Documentation) this event will show strategic aspects and case studies and its conclusions will be discussed on the session Data + Culture at the International Open Data Conference (IODC 2016).

The event is structured in 4 sections:

1. State-of-art and actual situation in Spain.
2. Cultural Information Reuse strategies at European level
3. Success stories in Europe
4. Success stories in Spain

The event, free of charge, will be broadcasted live. All information, speakers and agenda of the meeting is available in http://datosabiertos.sedic.es/.