This is how the Cabildo of Tenerife promotes open data
Fecha de la noticia: 17-03-2025
Today, transparency, innovation and economic development are key to the progress of public institutions. In this context, the Cabildo of Tenerife has undertaken an ambitious open data project that goes beyond the mere publication of information. The aim of this strategy is to ffacilitate access to information, encourage the reuse of data and generate social and economic value for the island.
Through its open data portal, the Cabildo not only promotes transparency and accountability, but also drives innovation in areas as diverse as tourism, transport and the rural environment.
Scope and objectives of the project
The open data portal of the Cabildo de Tenerife publishes datasets of the entire public sector of the island, including all the local councils of the island. In particular, this includes municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants, as established in Law 8/2015 on Island Councils. The main objectives of this project are:
- Strengthen the internal and external culture of data use.
- Increase transparency and accountability through data.
- Generate wealth in society through the reuse of information.
In this website you can find open datasets on tourism, transport, culture and leisure and rural environment, among others. In order to offer this information the Cabildo of Tenerife benefits from the collaboration of various bodies such as:
- Transportes Interurbanos de Tenerife (TITSA)
- Tenerife Island Water Board (CIATF)
- Metropolitan of Tenerife
- SINPROMI (Insular Society for the Promotion of People with Disabilities)
- ITER (Technological Institute of Renewable Energies)
- IASS (Insular Institute for Social and Socio-sanitary Care)
- Agrocabildo
Most downloaded and significant datasets
Some of the portal's most downloaded and significant datasets include:
- Network of weather stations, with updates every 10 minutes.
- Influx of recreational areas, such as Punta Teno and Barranco de Masca, with information on the number of vehicles and people, and the itineraries of trails or routes on the island.
- Indicators of economic development and tourist occupancy, including the number of tourists accommodated by category and area.
- Prices of fruit and vegetable products in Mercatenerife.
- Public transport Origin Destination Matrix, which shows the relationships between the places of origin and destination of journeys made on the island.
The Cabildo's open data project is clearly oriented towards compliance with the Technical Interoperability Standard (NTI) for the Reuse of Information Resources and the DCAT-AP model, areas in which it continues to make progress.
Use cases and applications to incentivise reuse
Beyond publishing open datasets, the Cabildo de Tenerife actively promotes their use through the development of use cases and applications. Examples of this work include:
- Development of a urban development plan in the municipality of Santiago del Teide through the reuse of various datasets.
- Project on meteorological data forecasting.
- Tourist places and traffic scorecards. Specifically:
- On tourism: tourist accommodation places by municipality and type, and the occupancy rate by type of accommodation from 1978 to 2023.
- About traffic: dashboard from Power BI showing the average daily traffic intensity at a station on the island for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023.
On the other hand, in order to promote the reuse of the data on its portal, the Cabildo of Tenerife organises various activities, such as the I Ideas Reuse Competition, in which 25 proposals were received. This competition will be followed by a second edition that will reward the development of applications.
In addition, there are talks and webinars, such as the one organised in collaboration with the Chair of Big Data, Open Data and Blockchain of the University of La Laguna on how to use open data from Tenerife to drive innovation , which you can see again here.
Next steps AI and community building
In order to measure the impact of open data, the Cabildo de Tenerife uses tools such as Google Analytics which allows the analysis of user interaction with the available data. The next big step, as reported by the organisation, will be to implement a virtual assistant with generative AI that will allow:
- Analysing data with natural language.
- Discover trends and correlations.
- Bringing information closer to any citizen.
In parallel, the Cabildo of Tenerife will also continue working on new avenues of collaboration with the island's municipalities and other entities, with the aim of expanding the amount and variety of open data available to citizens.
From datos.gob.es, we encourage development and research professionals, students and citizens to explore, reuse and create value with Tenerife's data.
