Events

The Data Journalism Workshop 2019 is already underway. It will be held from March 25 to 29 at Medialab Prado (Calle Alameda 15, Madrid). Under the motto "Follow the food", this year's edition will focus on the world of food, with reference to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The objective is that participants " analyse, narrate or redesign, in a creative and radical way, changes in the food models that can serve to reduce the likelihood of environmental collapse." For this purpose, they will...

Promote the use of open data in the European Union to generate new ideas, products and innovative services. That is the objective of EU Datathon, which this year celebrates its third edition, organized by the Publications Office and the presidency of the Council of the European Union. The competition offers participants the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in data-related issues and show their ideas to the world. To do this, they will have to develop applications - web or mobile -, visualizations...

The government of the Canary Islands has initiated a project to address public policies on reconciliation and co-responsibility based on open data. Under the title of Open Data Canary Women, the objective is to raise awareness and improve gender equality, promoting the balance of work, family and leisure time, as well as the equitable distribution of public and private responsibilities between men and women. This project consists of three actions: Expedition: The first phase, which took place...

The provision of public services in the digital environment will be the central theme of a conference organized by the General Directorate of Electronic Administration and Information Society of the Government of Aragon, next March 7 in Zaragoza. The event is support by SARGA - within the European project InterregMED Odeon "Open Data for European Open Innovation" -, and seeks to focus on digital advances and citizen service by the administration. Under the motto "Public Services Provision in the Digital...

An increasing number of administrations are driving open data and its reuse through contests and hackathons. An example is Malaga City, which has just presented its I Open Data Reuse Contest. The Data Portal of Malaga City has more than 1,800 available resources, grouped into 800 data sets, which follow the NTI classification. All of them have been published under a free use license, so that any citizen can analyse, reuse and redistribute data to generate a higher economic and social value. With the...

The Junta de Castilla y León has launched their third edition of the open data contest. Its objective is "to recognize the development of projects that use datasets from the Open Data portal of the Junta de Castilla y León". In short, it look for boosting open data and re-users community in Castilla y León. On this occasion, 3 categories have been established: Ideas Category: Ideas to create a study, service, website or application for mobile devices, using datasets from the Open Data portal of...

A new year begins and it is time to write down all those appointments that we want to attend during the next 12 months. There are all-kind event: large international events, contests and hackathons, workshops... all designed for data and new technologies lovers that want to be aware of new trends and challenges related to these areas. As in previous years, our country will host several big events. Barcelona will be the world technology headquarter with 3 unavoidable appointments: Mobile World Congress (...

8th Edition of Aporta Meeting will take place on November 28. In this occasion, the event will focus on the power of public data to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. Under the motto "Innovation with public data", consolidated companies, start-ups and public bodies will share their experience about taking advantage of improvement and business opportunities linked to open data and new technological paradigms, such as Big Data or Artificial intelligence. Thanks to these testimonies, attendees can...

The next 26th and 27th of November DATADRI is celebrated in Córdoba. It is a reference event for the digital transformation of agricultural sector. During two days, the challenges and opportunities of the sector will be addressed, paying special attention to the competitive advantages that new technologies and data analysis can bring. Junta de Andalucía, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, among many other organizations and companies,...

The European Commission has opened a CEF Telecom call - Public open data, for innovative projects in data management and analysis. The call was opened last May and the deadline for submission is November 15th 2018. The budget allocated for this call is 18.5 million euros, divided into three objectives. Objective 1: Support for the re-use of information made discoverable/available through the European Data Portal The European Commission has allocated 2 million euros to boost the deployment of new...