Events

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...

  On the occasion of the International Open Data Conference  and included on the agenda of events before IODC 2016, the Open Cities Summit will take place on 5th October at Media-Lab Prado in Madrid. This meeting will bring together international open data practitioners in order to show how open data is being used around the world to improve the lives of citizens at the city level, facilitate knowledge exchange around open cities, and ideate solutions to overcome identified challenges in...

Next 3rd October the sixth edition of the Encuentro Aporta will take place in Madrid, an annual event that aims to foster the openness and re-use of public sector information in Spain. In this occasion, within the program of activities organised the days previous to the International Open Data Conference and under the theme "Global cooperation, local impact", this meeting will bring together national experts who will share innovative solutions and cooperate in order to guarantee the global consensus needed...

  From September 26th to October 5th the international workshop Visualizar'16 Open Cities will take place in the cultural space Medialab Prado (Madrid), an event dedicated to those cities in the world that are committed to openness of information, transparency and re-use of data to improve services provided for citizens. On this occasion, two simultaneous calls are opened: one call for projects related to open cities and an application for collaborators. During the workshop a maximum of 8...

  Madrid City Council has announced the first edition of the Datathon and Data Journalism Awards, aimed at entrepreneurs, developers, designers, journalists and students interested in open data. The aim of this competition is to foster the re-use of public sector information, promote http://datos.madrid.es/ and convert it into, not only a point of access to local datasets, but into a tool to boost the development of innovative solutions based on open data. The awards are divided into two...