Castilla y León announces the winning projects of its open data contest

The III Open Data Contest of the Junta de Castilla y León has come to its end, and one more year it has been a success. Almost 60 nominations have been received, and an expert jury has selected 8 winners divided into 3 categories.

Ideas Category

This category was aimed at participants who did have a good idea, although they did not have the technical capacity, the resources or the time to implement an open data project.

• The First Prize went to the Intelligent Energy Management Platform in public buildings of the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León. The objective of this tool would be to promote the integrated management of energy resources. For this goal, it would allow the detailed visualization of the consumption and its analysis, facilitating the comparison between different supplies and their temporal evolution.
• The second prize went to SEMFOD, a tool for market segmentation in the forestry sector. Thanks to this tool, you could identify farms with forest land that are not being exploited to generate new economic benefits.
• OxigenaT won the prize reserved for students enrolled in the courses 2017-2018 or 2018-2019. It is an application that would use environmental data, such as historical air quality, to automatically predict pollution levels. In this way, real-time announcements and short-term forecasts could be offered.

Products and Services Category

In this case, the projects had to go a step further in their development. The idea was not enough. In this category, the content should be accessible to all citizens via online.

• The winner of the category was Juega Castilla y León, a game to demonstrate - and expand – user´s knowledge of the region. After selecting a municipality, the application shows a series of questions that should be resolved to increase the user score, to improve their position in a ranking of participant. Among other questions, the application asked about how the population of a municipality has evolved, what is its altitude or even what is the most frequent name among its inhabitants.
• The second prize went to Planrepuebla.es. This project provides information about municipalities, jobs, grants, subsidies and initiatives to fight against depopulation. Its objective is to encourage citizens to start a new life in the so-called empty Spain.
• In this category, NaturCyL: Natural spaces of Castilla y León won the prize for students. It is a mobile application that provides information on the natural areas of the autonomous community of Castilla y León and its facilities (parking, recreational areas, viewpoints, trails ...).

Educational Resource Category

The last category consisted in the creation of new and innovative open learning resources (published with Creative Commons licenses) that could be implemented in the classrooms of the autonomous community.

• The First Prize was for the Data Laboratory from the IES Politécnico de Soria, a project that seeks to promote the use of data in the Technician degree for data analysis and decision making.
• The second prize was obtained by Evolution of the population in Castilla y León from the IES Julián Marías. This project consists of a series of color maps that represent the evolution of the population by provinces and periods from 1986 to 2018.

In addition, a special mention has been granted to the Agromapa Castilla y León, a website that allows to visualize in a simple and didactic way the crops in the different municipalities of Castilla y León.

Congratulations to all the winners!