Meet the Jury of the IV edition of the Aporta Challenge

15 personalities from the field of innovation, data and health will be in charge of evaluating the proposals received at the IV edition of the Aporta Challenge, the competition that seeks to reward ideas and prototypes that promote improvements in a specific sector -in this case health and well-being- through the use of open data.

The names of the members of the jury have become known through a resolution published in the Red.es electronic headquarters. Among them we find representatives of the Public Administrations, organizations linked to the digital economy and the field of the university and data communities. Do you want to know who they are?

Organizations linked to digital advancement

The jury includes a series of representatives of public organizations at the national and regional level focused on the digitization and digital transformation of our country.

- Alberto Palomo Lozano, Chief Data Officer of the Data Office, dependent on the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation (MINECO). Among its functions is the promotion of the sharing, management and use of data throughout all productive sectors.

- Miguel Valle del Olmo, Deputy Director General of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Enabling Technologies f the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence (MINECO), in charge of the design and implementation of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy of Spain.

- Santiago Graña Dominguez, Deputy Director General of Planning and Governance of the Digital Administration of MINECO. Its aboutbody in charge of promoting the process of rationalization of information and communication technologies in the scope of the General Administration of the State and its Public Bodies.

- Francisco Javier García Vieira, Director of Digital Public Services of Red.es, a public entity promoter of the Digital Agenda in Spain. The Public service area works in three areas: in education, with Educa en Digital and the Educational Posts at Home; in health, with chronicity projects in Andalusia and Extremadura and with a whole range of local and provincial developments through the Smart Territories.

- María Fernández Rancaño, Deputy Director of Digital Public Services of Red.es, unit in charge of the deployment of technological implementation programs in public services of the Administration.

- Zaida Sampedro Loan, Deputy Director General of Services to Ministries and Digital Administration of Madrid Digital, the Agency for Digital Administration of the Community of Madrid.

Entities in the field of health

Given the sectorial nature of the Challenge, representatives of organizations linked to health and well-being have been invited to form part of the jury.

- Carlos Gallego Pérez, Director of Area IA of the Tic Salut Social Foundation of the Department of Health, of the Generalitat de Catalunya. This organismpromotes the development and use of ICT in health and social welfare, functioning as an observatory of new trends and innovation. Among its projects we find initiatives to bring the health field Artificial intelligence and Emerging technologies like 5G.

- Carlos Luis Parra Calderon, Head of the Technological Innovation Section of the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital of the Andalusian Health Service. This center has a R + D + i area focused on Learning Health Systems projects, Language Technologies or Big Data for Healthcare Management, among others.

- Noemí Cívicos Villa, General Director of Digital Health and Information Systems for the National system of health of the Ministry of Health. These are organizations that encompass health benefits and services in Spain.

Business associations

The Aporta Challenge seeks to highlight the power of data as the basis for business models that drive the economy. Therefore, the representatives of business entities could not be absent from the jury.

- Antonio Cimorra Boats, Director of Digital Transformation and Enabling Technologies of Ametic (Multisectoral Association of Information Technology, Communications and Electronics Companies). This association represents companies of all sizes linked to the Spanish digital technology industry.

- Olga Quirós Bonet. Secretary General of ASEDIE (Multisectoral Information Association). ASEDIE represents infomediary companies that, from different sectors, reuse information to create value-added products and services.

- Víctor María Calvo-Sotelo Ibáñez-Martín, Managing Director of Digital (Spanish Association for Digitization), which brings together companies present throughout the digital value chain. DigitalEs is part of the Advisory Council for the Digital Transformation of the Government and is a member of the CEOE board of directors.

Universities and data communities

Students and developers are, among others, two of the target audiences of this competition, and for this reason it was also important to have the participation of data communities and universities.

- Emilio López Cano, Contracted Professor of the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering of the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid. Emilio is also the President of R-Hispano, a community of users and developers whose objective is to promote the advancement of the knowledge and use of the programming language in R.

- Fernando Diaz de Maria, Professor and Head of the Multimedia Processing Group of the Higher Polytechnic School of the Carlos III University of Madrid. This entity has an attractive training offer in data, both in degrees like in postgraduate.

- Maria Sanchez Gonzalez, Associate Professor of the Department of Journalism at the University of Malaga and co-organizer of DataBeers Malaga, a non-profit initiative specialized in dynamic events related to the universe of data, including data open data.

The Secretariat of the Jury, with voice and vote, falls to Sonia Castro García-Muñoz, Coordinator of the Aporta Initiative in the Directorate of Digital Public Services of Red.es.

The registration closing date has been extended to February 15

In the same resolution, the closing date for submitting proposals has also been extended to February 15, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. Those citizens who wish to participate in the Challenge must present before that date an idea for a solution that promotes improvements in the field of health and well-being, using at least one set of data generated by Public Administrations, whether national or international

All the available information is published, together with the bases, in the section Aporta Challenge.