Upcoming Open Data Events in Open Data Day 2021 Week

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 Post-Covid world” seeks to promote the interest and use of open data, mainly in the areas of tourism, agriculture or health. Its objective is to stimulate participants by offering data and tools of interest for the development of applications related to the use and reuse of open data, in addition to promoting citizen participation in new challenges that improve citizens' day-to-day lives.

The competition is promoted by different local and university institutions of the Valencian Community:

The process will be as follows:

• The competition will begin on March 5 with an informative day at 5:00 p.m. in remote format. Different representatives of the organizing entities will participate and there will be a round table on open data in the field of tourism, health and agriculture with those responsible in these fields. The session will end with practical information on how to participate in the Datathon.
• From then on, and for 3 months, six workshops will be held, together with experts in the field. With these workshops, participants will learn about the resources of the Valencian Government's open data portal, learn how to process the request for this information, and address the processes of collection, integration, visualization and geolocation of different types of data.
• Throughout the process, a team of student volunteers from the UA MultiTEC association will tutor the participants and resolve their doubts.

The call is open to any person of legal age interested in data management. The dates to consider are the following:

• The registration period ends on March 5. Registration is done using Eventbrite.
• The configuration of equipment can be done until March 18 through the following form.
• The completion and delivery of projects will end on May 14. A prize of 1,000 euros and three second prizes of 500 euros will be awarded for each of the challenges: tourism, health and agriculture.

The Datathon evaluation team will take into account the impact and importance of the challenge solved, the creativity and innovation of the application, the use of data, the suitability for the award category and the degree of completion achieved.

Journalism and open data visualization

The MPVD Agora on Journalism and Data Visualization organizes a session on Thursday, March 4 to celebrate the Open Data Day 2021 that will be broadcast on YouTube.

The session, which will begin at 3:00 p.m. and will last an hour and a half, will have 2 different parts:

• An introductory workshop to Observable, a tool for learning D3.js. The workshop will be given by Adrián Blanco Ramos, graphic editor of the Washington Post
• A talk about The owners of the game, an investigation about the hunting grounds in Spain published by El Mundo. José Fernando Leal (@ricologias), one of the coordinators, will be in charge of explaining all the details.

The session will be recorded for those who cannot see it live. It can be accessed through the YouTube channel MPVD Master of Journalism and Data Visualization. In this channel you can find previous sessions, dedicated, for example, to how to work with data and electronic records available in different formats and sources or how to create simple, clear and attractive stories through the analysis and visualization of data allows.

Although the videos are developed within the framework of the Master in Journalism and Data Visualization at the University of Alcalá, both the videos of this conference and those of the previous ones are available open to any user interested in the subject.

Conference - The DATA in the Local Administrations 20/30. Experiences and challenges March 9, 2021. On-line.

The Alcobendas City Council and the Institute for the Transfer of Knowledge in Public Innovation - ITCIP, with the support of the FEMP, organize a conference to publicize projects that local administrations are developing around the world of data.

The session will take place on March 9 online. Among other issues, subjects related to architecture, life cycle, governance, security and data protection and analysis will be addressed. Some of the experiences and proposals that will be discussed are the Data Offices, the Data Delegate, efficient forms of storage, data management and conservation, its application to public services in smart city projects and its role in the openness, transparency and reuse.

The event will have the participation of representatives from the FEMP, the European Commission, the Community of Madrid and cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Zaragoza, Malaga, Gijón, Logroño, Alcobendas, Sant Feliu de Llobregat and Mataró. In addition, the conference has the support of Oracle, which will provide the vision of the most innovative trends related to data.

You can see the full agenda at this link.

The conference can be followed for free, through the ITCIP page. You can sign up at this link.

At datos.gob.es we invite you to join some of these proposals and celebrate Open Data Day.