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Registration for the eu datathon 2022 is open!
March
31
2022
7 February 2022 was the date chosen for the launch of the sixth edition of the EU Datathon. Organised by the Publications Office of the European Union, this competition aims to raise awareness of the value of open data and showcase the opportunities for data-driven business models. EU Datathon 2022 gives participants the opportunity to gain international visibility for their innovative ideas based on open data, as well as compete for a total prize fund of €200,000. 4 challenges available Unlike...
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New edition of the open data contest of Castilla y León
September
30
2020
The Junta de Castilla y León, through its Ministry of Transparency, Territorial Planning and Foreign Action, organizes, for yet another year, its open data contest. This is the fourth edition, after the appointments of 2013, 2014 and 2018, in which more than 100 projects were presented in total. The purpose of the contest is to promote the use of the data published in the Castilla y León open data catalog, through the recognition of projects already carried out and the promotion of new ideas. 4...
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Open the deadline to participate in the World Data Viz Challenge 2019 Barcelona-Kobe
October
31
2019
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...
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Space Apps Challenge 2019: a global hackathon with NASA open data
October
18
2019
For the eighth consecutive year, NASA organizes Space Apps, an international hackathon, where participating teams will have to solve real challenges related to Earth observation. What does it consist of? Programmers, scientists, storytellers, designers, and anyone interested in space science and data exploration can share their knowledge to design innovative solutions that respond to issues related to different categories: Earth's oceans Our moon Planets near and far To the stars Living...
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The Barcelona City Council announces the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge third edition 2020
September
01
2019
Based on the idea that “the future reusers are, nowadays, in schools”, the Barcelona City Council organizes, once again, the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge, a contest with a high social impact whose main objective is to bring open data benefits closer to students and thus increase the number of people with open data knowledge and skills, taking advantage of all the benefits that entails. And it is aimed at the youngest citizens, from very soon. What does it consist of? The Barcelona Dades Obertes...
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New Edition of the Aporta Challenge 2019
May
23
2019
A new edition of the Aporta Challenge is already underway. As the previous edition, new ideas and prototypes based on open data are sought to help improve the efficiency of a specific sector. In this case, the agri-food, forestry and rural sector have been chosen, due to its fundamental role in the creation of wealth and employment. Why is the agri-food, forestry and rural sector important? Currently, this sector is facing a series of challenges that affect all us and, ultimately, the future of...
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Open call for the third edition of EU Dathaton
March
24
2019
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...
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The call to participate in the data visualization challenge of Canary Women's Open Data project is opened
March
19
2019
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...
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The City Council of Malaga announces its first Open Data Reuse contest
March
04
2019
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...
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Castilla y León announces a new edition of their Open Data Contest
February
10
2019
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...