Events

The European Data Portal (EDP) organizes a webinar to delve into data sharing between companies and public administrations (Business to Government or B2G) on 23 May. The main conclusions of the last EDP report -entitled Analytical Report 12: Business-to-Government Data Sharing- will be shared in the webinar, whose objective is to promote the supply of private sector data to public bodies under preferential conditions for its re-use. Specifically, during the webinar the following issues will be analyzed...

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...

After the success of the first edition, TourismKG, the international workshop on knowledge graphs on travel and tourism, returns. If last year, the workshop take place during the ICWE congress (International Conference on Web Engineering), this year the appointment will be hold during the 22nd International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2019), in Seville from June 26 to 28. The workshop is organized by Ontology Engineering Group, responsible for DBpedia del español, TAIGER and ODI...

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 (...