Events

From 27 to 28 April the international conference OD4CH is organized in Milan, an opportunity to discuss and deepen methodological and practical approaches for the digitization of cultural heritage. This meeting is designed as a collaborative space where participants can work on new models and actions of cultural heritage management based on the re-use of open data and the use of free software. The goal of the conference is raising the citizen's awareness of democratizing access to common goods...

On Friday, April 21, a workshop dedicated to data science in the social and health sector will take place in Media-Lab Prado, Madrid. A meeting designed for professionals and researchers specialized in the data analysis for social purposes and belonging to the health science. The event will start with a specific session on the analysis of urban mobility through big data, followed by two talks related to the healthcare sector under the titles "Big4Cast: prediction of crisis in bipolar...

In 2011 the project Sharing is caring was born in Denmark. An initiative  to organize different national seminars that promote the openness of the information of the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries, archives and museums). The first event took place in November 2011 bringing together a large number of participants from all over Denmark, from large and small institutions, museums, libraries, archives, educational institutions and members of the Wikipedia community. Such was the success of...

Nowadays, research methods (sensors, technological devices, simulations, etc.) generate a large amount of data that, in open and reusable format, conceals a great re-use potential for other researchers, public administrations, private companies or users. That is why last year the European Commission agreed on an international commitment to promote open science during the Competitiveness Council, ensuring that all results of EU research are available without any technical, legal or financial...

The International Open Data Day is celebrated on Saturday 4 March. For the fifth time in history, organizations around the world and local groups will create different events, conferences, workshops and activities in their community to show the benefits of open data and their re-use while promoting the adoption of open data policies in governments, companies and civil society. In Spain, the institutions Open Knowledge España, ODI Madrid and Medialab-Prado organize the Open Data Day Madrid. It...

The State Secretariat for the Information Society and the Digital Agenda (SESIAD), together with the Public Business Entity Red.es, organize the first Hackathon of Language Technology with the goal of promoting  the development of technological applications based on the natural language processing and the automatic translation through the creation of open source prototypes with concrete functionalities related to this area.   The competition consists of two phases: first, the participants will...

From February 22 to 23, the seventh edition of the National Innovation and Public Services Convention (CNIS) will take place in Madrid. Under the motto "The challenge of creating public value for citizenship", the attendees will discuss how to manage the digital transformation of Public Administrations in Spain. The CNIS has been consolidated as the main event on eGovernment at national level, bringing together representatives of the public sector, companies of the sector and technological experts...

Since 2011, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) has become a multilateral organization that gathers seventy countries, NGO's, and representatives of civic society in order to promote the principles of transparency, citizen participation and open government. Three basic pillars in the fight against corruption that boost the development of new technologies, innovation and progress.  Since the OGP was created, the participating countries have made over 2,500 commitments to make their governments...

As every year, the Multisectoral Information Association organizes the International Conference on the Re-use of Public Sector Information to be held next Thursday, November 24: an opportunity for representatives of the public sector, independent organizations, businesses and users to meet and discuss the importance of the infomediary sector in the current economic, political and social context. The place chosen to host the event is the Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM) in Madrid, given the institution...

  “Crowd-sourcing questions that if answered could radically increase our understanding of open data” On October 5th, international researchers will gather at the second Open Data Research Symposium (ODRS); a pre-event to the International Open Data Conference to be held in Madrid. As in the previous edition, ODRS 16 will offer attendees the opportunity to reflect critically on the results of their investigations while cohesion is sought within the research...