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The government (future) regulation on the Reuse of public sector information
One of the main implications of Open Government refers to citizens’ participation in public authorities’ decisions making. This requirement acquires a special importance in the elaboration of regulation, hence, after the reform of the administrative procedure in 2015, the government has established…
How to improve the sustainability of open data portals
Currently, most of the data opened in Europe are stored in portals and national catalogs that facilitate the search, location and reuse of such information. For this reason, it is essential to ensure the sustainability of these repositories that connect publishers with data users, who are the ones w…
The use of open data for education to foster critical thinking
Every day we receive a large amount of scientific-technological information from multiple sources: comments on social networks, news in the media, whatsapp messages... This information is conditioning our conception of the world, and our positioning as citizens. But the danger lies in the fact that…
The land governance and the open movement: the Land Portal Foundation
High diplomacy traditionally plays a role in helping cultures and nations to dialogue with each other. But when it comes to strengthening the right to land, it is the local communities themselves that have to get involved.
This is the vision of the Land Portal Foundation, and the main reason to crea…
Data management plan: an opportunity for open science for further progress
The agencies that finance public and private research are interested in having the results disseminated as much as possible. For this reason, and following the philosophy of open science, the funders themselves created the demand to make open the access to the scientific publications created during…
Balance of Iniciativa Aporta in 2017
The end of the year is approaching and it is time to review the goals achieved in this year by the Iniciativa Aporta, as part of its labour to boost open data and reuse of public sector information Spain.
Appart from more than 16,300 datasets published by 111 organizations, the portal dato…
PWFY: campaña para fomentar la apertura de los datos de ayuda
En el mundo de la cooperación al desarrollo, aumentar el impacto y la efectividad de la ayuda para la reducción de la pobreza es un tema que está siempre encima de la mesa. En el año 2011, en el 4º Foro de Alto Nivel sobre la Eficacia de la Ayuda (Busan, Corea del Sur) los donantes internacionales m…
Open data re-use: an opportunity for Spain (COTEC Report)
The COTEC Foundation, a private non-profit organization that promotes innovation as a driving force for economic and social development in Spain, recently published its report "The Reuse of Open Data: an opportunity for Spain". In this study, led by the experts Alberto Abella, María Ortiz de Urbina…
Data from a gender perspective
More than half of the world's population are women, who also play a key role in our society. For example, it is women who grow, produce and sell more than 90% of locally grown food. Paradoxically, these same women are beneficiaries of only 1% of agricultural loans and receive less than 1% of public…
5 recommendations to improve open data portals
The opening of the data should not be an end in itself. The open data portals created without a clear objective, lacking a well-defined plan to attract visitors, tend to fall into disuse over time.
Opening public data isn’t an end in itself. Portals created without a clear sense of purpose or any pl…
