You can now meet the Jury of the third edition of the Aporta Challenge. The name of the people in charge of evaluating the ideas and prototypes received has just been published in the Electronic headquarters of Red.es and on our web page datos.gob.es.

The jury is made up of representatives of Public Administrations, organizations linked to the digital economy and academia, both from the ICT field and from sectors linked to issues associated with the educational field. Next, we reveal his identity to you.

Companies

The Aporta Challenge Jury has 5 representatives from leading companies in the technology sector, with great knowledge of the use of data to generate valuable products and services.

• Belén Gancedo Riestra. Director of Education at Microsoft Ibérica, a company that not only offers solutions for the educational field, but has also made open datasets available to users.

• Carles Suero Marqués. Corporate Director of Education at Grupo SM, one of the largest publishers in the world, of Spanish origin, specialized in the publication of educational materials, but also in the development of comprehensive solutions focused on 3 axes: strategic support, personalized learning and comprehensive management of the centers.

• Cristina Torvisco Tinoco. Specialist Consultant at Telefónica Educación Digital, the Telefónica group company that develops comprehensive online learning solutions for education and training.

• Gonzalo Romero Garnica. Director of Education of Google Spain. Google has opted for the opening of accessible datasets through APIs and the development of tools that facilitate their use by users. Among its areas of work is Google for Education, with solutions designed for teachers and students.

• Juan Núñez Colás. Managing Partner of Otbinnova Creative Thinking, a company specialized in pedagogical innovation processes that offers services to educational organizations, educational centers and content companies.

Associations and foundations

In addition to the business field, the jury is also made up of representatives of associations linked to the field of data-based technological innovation.

•  Ainara Zubillaga del Río. Director of Education and Training of the Cotec Foundation for Innovation, a non-profit organization that carries out various projects in the field of education.

•  Antonio Cimorra Lanchas. Director of Information Technologies and Digital Agenda of Ametic (Multisectoral Association of Information Technology, Communications and Electronics Companies), an employer association that represents companies of all sizes linked to the digital industry.

• Javier Miranda Gil. Head of the Training, Education and Employment Area of ​​DigitalES, the Spanish Association for Digitization whose objective is to promote digital transformation through different lines of work such as education, and new employment models.

• Olga Quirós Bonet. General Secretary of ASEDIE (Multisectoral Information Association), which brings together infomediary companies, that is, companies focused on the reuse and distribution of information for value-added products.

Educational entities

How could it be otherwise, a space has also been reserved for educational centers:

• Fernando Díaz de Marí. Deputy Director of Engineering in Science and Data Engineering at the Carlos III University of Madrid, an entity that has an attractive training offer in data, both in undergraduate and graduate degrees.

• Nacho de Pinedo Palomero. Founder and CEO of the Instituto Superior para el Desarrollo de Internet, a digital native business school, with a wide range of distance programs in Spanish and English.

Public administration

Finally, representatives of public administrations that are part of the data-based innovation ecosystem have also been invited:

• Antonio Fernández Ezker. Deputy Director General of Talent and Digital Entrepreneurship of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.

• Antonio Ibáñez Pascual. Head of the Transparency and Information Reuse Service of the General Directorate of Transparency and Good Governance of the Junta de Castilla y León, one of the organizations most committed to open data at the regional level.

• Carlos Medina Bravo. Director of the INTEF (National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training), the unit of the Ministry of Education and Professional Training responsible for the integration of ICT and Teacher Training in non-university educational stages. UPDATE: In June 2020 Carlos Medina Bravo has been replaced by Julio Albalad Gimeno, as a member of the jury for the final of the Desafío due to internal changes in INTEF.

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

You can see all the members of the jury in the following visual:

Registration for the challenge contributes is still open

If you want to participate in the Aporta Challenge, you are still on time. You just have to present an original idea to drive improvements in the educational field using data intelligence, through the Red.es electronic office before November 18 at 1:00 p.m.

Based on the jury's assessment, the 10 best ideas will go to the second phase of the Challenge and they will have 3 months to develop a prototype of the solution. At the end of the process, three winners will be chosen, who will be awarded € 4,000, € 3,000 and 2,000% respectively.

More information in this link.