Events

The Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera will host, on 23 and 24 September, the II Regional Meeting of Smart Municipalities. Its objective is to advance in the smart development of Andalusian municipalities, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The event is organised by the Provincial Council of Cadiz and the Andalusian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, with the collaboration of the Regional Government of Andalusia, the City Council of Jerez, the University of Cadiz and the Smart City...

The University of Alicante will host the International Congress on Open Data and Reuse of Public Sector Information. The event will focus on the role of open data and its potential reuse to achieve improvements in several key areas for our country, such as tourism and the economy. It will also address the analysis and legal implications of Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information. This conference is...

The Regional Ministry of Transparency, Territorial Planning and External Action of the Regional Government of Castilla y León has announced this year the fifth edition of the open data competition. The aim of this competition is to recognise the creation of projects for mobile devices that provide ideas, studies, services or applications using the datasets offered by the Junta on its portal. 4 Categories are available In addition to the traditional categories of "Ideas", "Products and Services" and "...

The current healthcare situation has changed the way in which major events are held, with most of them moving from being held in person to online. However, little by little, the face-to-face format is being taken up again, returning to the offline format and even combining both experiences. In this article we are going to discover some events related to the world of technology and data, both private and public, that will be held in the coming weeks and that you should not miss. Join us to discover them...

As every year, the GBIF Secretariat, on behalf of the network of National Participants (including Spain), has opened the call for applications for the Young Investigator Award 2021. This call is aimed at graduate students who wish to work with GBIF biodiversity data in their master's or doctoral studies. The main objective is to recognize and encourage innovative research and discoveries in the field of biodiversity informatics by graduate students. This year the program will award two prizes of €5,...

  The Transparency Portal of the Generalitat Valenciana has just announced the course "Open data in local councils: transparency, data protection and openness of information" which will be held online on 18, 21, 25 and 28 May. The course will introduce open data, its benefits and opportunities, as well as its relation to data protection and transparency. Who is organising this course? The Open Data and Transparency Observatory is in charge of organising and delivering this training within the...

Once again, Barcelona City Council is organising the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge, now in its fourth year. The aim of this competition is to bring the benefits of open data closer and to promote its use in the city's educational centres. What does the challenge consist of? This year there are new changes! Like last year's edition, this is a competition for the city's students to develop real projects of analysis and/or interpretation, based on the use of datasets included in the Open Data BCN...

This Saturday, March 6, Open Data Day 2021 is celebrated worldwide. This event, which takes place annually on the first Saturday in March, seeks to promote the reuse of open data around the world. In our country there are several organizations that have chosen the next few days to launch events related to the opening and reuse of information. Next, we collect several of them: Datathon 2021: The role of open data in the face of challenges in a Post-Covid world The “Datathon 2021: Challenges in a...

Next Friday, 27 November, the "12th International Conference on the Reuse of Public Sector Information" will take place, organized, once again, by Asedie, the Multisectorial Information Association. Due to the circumstances arising from the pandemic, this year's edition will be broadcast online from  9:30 am to 12:30 pm from the Spanish Patent and Trade Mark Office. One of the objectives of the event is to raise awareness of the importance of the Infomediary Sector as one of the driving forces...

Many open data initiatives have taken advantage of the end of the summer and the return to school to launch competitions to promote the creation of value services based on open data. In addition to the recent launch of the Aporta 2020 Challenge, which on this occasion focuses on solving the challenges associated with the education sector, new editions of competitions such as BiscayAPP, the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge and the Castilla y León Open Data Competition have just closed their registration...