Events

On March 5, communities around the world will join together to celebrate Open Data Day 2022. It is an annual celebration that seeks to showcase the benefits and encourage the adoption of open data policies in governments, businesses and civil society. Throughout the day -and on upcoming dates- local groups from all corners of the world organize different actions related to the publication and reuse of data. In Spain, some activities are also being held, such as: DATATHON 2022 Date: From March 4...

The new school year has already begun. While students are gradually returning to schools, companies and organizations are also recovering their activity. The last quarter of the year is chosen by a large number of organizations to launch events that help us to better understand the universe of open data, bringing us success stories and giving us the opportunity to discuss the future challenges. In datos.gob.es we have compiled some of these events: On September 14, the Tech.Party 2019 is held at...

In 2018, the cities of Barcelona and Kobe celebrate 25 years of twinning agreement, and to commemorate it, both municipalities have launched the World Data Viz Challenge 2018 Barcelona-Kobe. Promoting policy improvements through data visualizations A similar challenges have been launched in each city: participants will have to generate visualizations based on open data to show the challenges of an intelligent city, which can be useful to optimize public policies. In the case of Barcelona, it will be...