Events

¡¡SUSPENDIDO TEMPORALMENTE HASTA NUEVO AVISO!! El Gobierno de Aragón, a través de la Dirección General de Administración Electrónica y Sociedad de la Información y SARGA, dentro del proyecto europeo InterregMED Odeon, organizan el evento: “HACKAGRON: hackaton con los datos del sector agroalimentario aragonés” los días 18 y 19 de marzo de 2020. El eje central del HACKAGRON es la colaboración para buscar soluciones y dar respuestas basadas en datos y datos abiertos a los diferentes...

De aquí a 2025, la UE y los Estados miembros deberían haber reducido a la mitad la actual brecha de 1 millón de especialistas digitales, prestando especial atención a una mayor participación de mujeres. Así se indica en la Estrategia Europea de Datos recientemente publicada por la Comisión Europea, donde se establece el avance de las competencias y la inversión en competencias digitales como uno de los pilares clave del futuro de la EU. Esta mejora en las habilidades digitales está intrínsecamente...

El próximo día 7 de marzo, con motivo del Open Data Day 2020 (#ODD2020) administraciones públicas, empresas privadas y ciudadanos se darán cita, para trabajar en torno a los beneficios de los datos abiertos para el desarrollo económico, y alentar la adopción de políticas gubernamentales que beneficien su uso. Entre otras actividades, en el caso de Madrid, el Día de los Datos Abiertos 2020 de Madrid se celebrará en Alcobendas, en la Ciudad Deportiva Valdelasfuentes. Desde allí, el Grupo de...

Earth Observation data have great potential to create new innovative products and services, an issue that the European Union wants to promote. Therefore, within the Horizon 2020 program, the Parsec accelerator has been launched. Parsec will allocate 2.5 million euros to transform ideas into solutions that take advantage of the potential of this type of data. The project is developed in connection with the Copernicus program and in collaboration with the European Space Agency and 9 entities from 7...

The 9th edition of the Aporta Meeting is already underway. The appointment will be on December 18 in Madrid, in the morning (from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.), and will be focused on high-value data. High-value public and private data mean an extraordinary source of information to consider due to its great impact on citizens. When we talk about high-value data we refer to those categories delimited by Directive (EU) 2019/1024, of June 20, 2019, related to the geospatial, environmental, meteorological,...

For the third consecutive year, Correos has launched the Lehnica challenge, an entrepreneurial contest that seeks to boost innovation as an essential value of business progress. Through this challenge, a maximum of 5 projects will be selected to become part of Correoslabs, the entrepreneurship and innovation space of Correos. Who is it for? The Lehnica Challenge is aimed at newly created companies with a maximum age of three years and having their registered office in Spain. What does it consist...

November 28 is the date chosen by Asedie (Multisectoral Information Association) to hold its International Conference on the Reuse of Public Sector Information. As on previous occasions, the event will bring together representatives of public bodies, reuse companies and experts in the field, who will analyze the challenges and opportunities facing the sector. According to the latest edition of the report on the Infomediary Sector carried out by Asedie, the turnover of the sector grew by 5.4% during the...

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom branch finances the deployment of pan-European telecommunications infrastructure for the interconnection of Member States. To this end, each year the European Union allocates funding for both digital service platforms and general services that integrate these platforms with national structures. One of the areas included in the initiative is open data.   In this context, the call for general services in the area of ​​open data was published on July 4....

The city councils of Barcelona and the Japanese city of Kobe have launched a new edition of the World Data Viz Challenge 2019 Barcelona-Kobe, a data analysis and visualization contest. This contest was born last year, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the twinning agreement of both cities. The large number of participants and the quality of the works presented, which can be consulted here, have led the organizers to promote this new call. What does it consist of? The contest is held in parallel in...

The tenth edition of the Iberian Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference will be held in Cáceres on October 23, 24 and 25. On this occasion, the event will focus on spreading the role of the local IDE as a meeting point between administrations, companies and citizens. Under the title "Local IDEs, bringing digital information to citizens", various technical sessions, workshops and round tables will be held. They will address topics such as the implementation of INSPIRE, the challenges and opportunities of...