Events

  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...

One more year, the Aporta Initiative launches the Aporta Challenge, a competition aimed at promoting the creation of solutions based on public sector information, which help solve challenges in specific sectors that affect society as a whole. This time, the chosen sector is education. A teaching model based on data and disruptive technologies The current context of a global pandemic has marked a before and after in the education sector. Although there has been talk for years about the benefits of...

The BiscayTIK Foundation and the Biscay Provincial Council are organising the BiscayAPP challenge, whose the main aim is to reward the best proposals for web or mobile applications that provide some kind of service for organisations and citizens through the use of open data. The additional purpose of this challenge is to disseminate the resources of the Council as vectors for the attraction and promotion of Biscay. What requirements must be met? Any natural or legal person may submit one or more...

The European Commission has already published the official call for entries for the European Green Leaf 2022 (EGLA) and European Green Capital 2023 (EGCA) awards, which aim to recognise the progress made by cities committed to sustainability. This year, the deadline for submissions will remain open until 28 October and the financial allocation for both awards will be up to one million euros combined, to support cities in effectively implementing new urban sustainability measures. This increase in the...

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...

After postponing the Databeers Málaga, scheduled for April in the framework of the Hackathon Copernicus Málaga, due to the confinement before the Covid-19, both events have a new date of realization: The XVII Databeers Málaga will take place on September 24th from 20 hours and will be held by videoconference. On the other hand, the hackathon will start on September 18th, also online, and will last until October 1st. Databeers Malaga addresses the opportunities of Copernicus data Given the...