67 interviews found
Interview with Thais Ruiz de Alda, founder and CEO of Digital Fems
Science and technology
Today, data drives the world. It conditions public policies, the behaviour of algorithms and the decision-making of many companies. That is why it is important to have figures that correctly represent reality, i.e. that take into account all variables, including gender.
Thais Ruiz de Alda is founder and CEO of Digital Fems, an entity that designs projects to increase the presence of women in techn…
Interview with Antonio Cimorra, AMETIC's Director of Digital Transformation and Enabling Technologies
Science and technology
Economy
The AMETIC association represents companies of all sizes linked to the Spanish digital technology industry, a key sector for the national GDP. Among other issues, AMETIC seeks to promote a favorable environment for the growth of companies in the sector, promoting digital talent and the creation and consolidation of new companies.
At datos.gob.es we spoke with Antonio Cimorra, Director of Digital T…
Interview with Hélène Verbrugghe, Meta's Public Policy Manager for Spain and Portugal
Science and technology
A few months ago, Facebook surprised us all with a name change: it became Meta. This change alludes to the concept of "metaverse" that the brand wants to develop, uniting the real and virtual worlds, connecting people and communities.
Among the initiatives within Meta is Data for Good, which focuses on sharing data while preserving people's privacy. Helene Verbrugghe, Public Policy Manager for Spa…
Interview with Adolfo Lozano, Director of the Office of Transparency and Open Data of the University of Extremadura
Education
Publishing open data following the best practices of linked data allows to boost its reuse. Data and metadata are described using RDF standards that allow representing relationships between entities, properties and values. In this way, datasets are interconnected with each other, regardless of the digital repository where they are located, which facilitates their contextualization and exploitation…
Interview with Gonzalo Romero, Director of Google for Education in Spain
Science and technology
Google is a company with a strong commitment to open data. It has launched Google Dataset Search, to locate open data in existing repositories around the world, and also offers its own datasets in open format as part of its Google Research initiative. In addition, it is a reuser of open data in solutions such as Google Earth.
Among its areas of work is Google for Education, with solutions designed…
Interview with Belén Gancedo, Director of Education at Microsoft Ibérica
Science and technology
Open data is not only a matter of public administrations, more and more companies are also betting on them. This is the case of Microsoft, who has provided access to selected open data in Azure designed for the training of Machine Learning models. He also collaborates in the development of multiple projects in order to promote open data. In Spain, it has collaborated in the dev…
Entrevista a Manuel Gertrudix y Juan Jesús Alcolea, Proyecto UniversiDATA-Lab
Science and technology
El primer premio de nuestro III Desafío Aporta ha sido para UniversiData-Lab, un portal público para el análisis avanzado y automático de los datasets publicados por las universidades. Se trata de un proyecto complementario a UniversiData: mientras que el objetivo de UniversiDATA es facilitar el acceso a conjuntos de datos unive…
Entrevista a Aday Melián Carrillo, Proyecto MIPs
Science and technology
Te presentamos Proyecto MIP, el ganador del segundo premio de nuestro Desafío Aporta. Se trata de un servicio online donde cualquier usuario puede registrarse y empezar a crear MIPs (Marked Information Picture). Un MIP es un soporte de información que consiste en una serie de capas interactivas sobre imágenes estáticas que facilitan la retención de…
Entrevista a Jimena Andrade e Irene Ruano, Proyecto EducaWood
Science and technology
Descubre el proyecto que se ha adjudicado el tercer premio de nuestro Desafío Aporta. EducaWood es un portal web socio-semántico que permite explorar la información forestal de una zona del territorio español y enriquecerla con anotaciones de árboles. Su objetivo es impulsar las actividades de aprendizaje medioambiental, uno de los aspectos principales de la “Educación para los…
Interview with Inés Huertas, Leticia Martín-Fuertes and Elen Irazabal, R- Ladies
Science and technology
R-Ladies is a software community that aims to give visibility to women who work or develop projects or software using R to do so. It is a local branch of R-Ladies Global, an open source community born in 2016.
Its organisers, Inés Huertas, Leticia Martín-Fuertes and Elen Irazabal, gave us a few minutes to talk about the activities carried out by this community and how to promote the presence of wo…
