Just a few days before the end of 2022, we’d like to take this opportunity to take stock of the year that is drawing to a close, a period during which the open data community has not stopped growing in Spain and in which we have joined our joint forces and desires with the Data Office. The latter unit is responsible for boosting the management, sharing and use of data throughout all the production sectors of the Spanish Economy and Society, focusing its efforts in particular on promoting spaces for sharing and making use of sectoral data.

It is precisely thanks to the incorporation of the Data Office under the Aporta Initiative that we have been able to double the dissemination effect and promote the role that open data plays in the development of the data economy.

Concurrently, during 2022 we have continued working to bring open data closer to the public, the professional community and public administrations. Thus, and with the aim of promoting the reuse of open data for social purposes, we have once again organised a new edition of the Aporta Challenge.

Focusing on the health and well-being of citizens, the fourth edition of this competition featured three winners of the very highest level and the common denominator of their digital solutions is to improve the physical and mental health of people, thanks to services developed with open data.

New examples of use cases and step-by-step visualisations

In turn, throughout this year we have continued to characterise new examples of use cases that help to increase the catalogue of open data reuse companies and applications. With the new admissions, datos.gob.es already has a catalogue of 84 reuse companies and a total of 418 applications developed from open data. Of the latter, more than 40 were identified in 2022.

Furthermore, since last year we inaugurated the step-by -step visualisations section, we have continued to explore their potential so that users can be inspired and easily replicate the examples.

Reports, guides and audio-visual material to promote the use of open data

For the purpose of continuing to provide advice to the communities of open data publishers and reusers, another of the mainstays in 2022 has been a focus on offering innovative reports on the latest trends in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, as well as the development of guides , infographics and videos which foster an up-close knowledge of new use cases and trends related with open data.

Some of the most frequently read articles at the datos.gob.es portal have been '4 examples of projects by private companies that are committed to open data sharing', 'How is digital transformation evolving in Spain?' either 'The main challenges to promote sectoral data spaces', inter alia. As far as the interviews are concerned, we would highlight those held with the winners of the 4th “Aporta” Challenge, with Hélène Verbrugghe, Public Policy Manager for Spain and Portugal of Meta or with Alberto González Yanes, Head of the Economic Statistics Service of the Canary Islands Institute of Statistics (ISTAC), inter alia.

Finally, we would like to thank the open data community for its support for another year. During 2022, we have managed to ensure that the National Data Catalogue exceeds 64,000 published data sets. In addition, datos.gob.es has received more than 1,300,000 visits, 25% more than in 2021, and the profiles of datos.gob.es on LinkedIn and Twitter have grown by 45% and 12%, respectively.

Here at datos.gob.es and the Data Office we are taking on this new year full of enthusiasm and a desire to work so that open data keep making progress in Spain through publishers and reusers.

Here's to a highly successful 2023!

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