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The value of open data in Public Administrations
The public sector should not only be consideres a large open data provider, but also as one of the main and first users in any government open data project. According to the report on success stories and best practices for the re-use of public sector information, it has been estimated that almo…
Transforming open data into economic and societal value
Only if data are opened and made available to society, their real potential can be re-used to improve the existing services, optimize business processes and find solutions to corporate challenges through information analysis. In fact, according to the European Data Portal (EDP), 23% of the comp…
The five most common technical problems when open data are published
The results of the third edition of the Open Data Barometer shows how governments, as part of their usual activity, are already collecting and managing a large amount of data in areas as diverse as cartography, land registry, statistics, budgets and public spending, business records, legislation, tr…
5th edition of the report on the Infomediary Sector by ASEDIE
Annually the Multisectorial Information Association (ASEDIE) publishes a report analyzing in detail the national infomediary market. This fifth edition evaluates 636 Spanish companies whose activity is based on the re-use of public and/or private information to develop value-added products for third…
Plataforma de Gobierno Abierto, Colaborativa e Interoperable
El pasado mes de enero, la entidad pública Red.es -perteneciente al Ministerio de Energía, Turismo y Agenda Digital- arrancó junto con los gobiernos locales de Zaragoza, Madrid, A Coruña y Santiago de Compostela el proyecto “Plataforma de Gobierno Abierto, Colaborativa e Interoperable”. Una de las c…
New features of the European Data Portal
The European Data Portal has published its 2.0 version, with a more user-friendly and intuitive design, which provides new contents and features. Thanks to the suggestions and comments given by the users after the launch of version 1.0 of the portal in February 2016, the open data platform has…
XBRL, specifications of an open standard for the financial sector
After the financial crisis in the last years, there has been a need to promote the openness of this sector information in order to show in a transparent way the risks that exist and the possible impact on the global economy of certain activities of this industry. In order to achieve this openne…
Success stories and best practices in the re-use of public information
In addition to the fourth edition of the Report on Infomediary Sector Characterization, the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda and the Ministry of Finance and Public Function - under the direction of the Evaluation Area of the National Observatory of Telecommunications and the Informatio…
4th edition of the Report on Infomediary Sector Characterization 2016
Regularly, the Ministries of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda and Internal Revenue Service & Public Administrations, through the National Observatory of Telecommunications & the Information Society (ONTSI), publish a report on the characterization of the Spanish infomediary sector. A docum…
Workshop on the Benefits of Open Data: from open data policies to re-use of public sector information
In 2015, the European Commission launched the European Data Portal (EDP) to increase the accessibility of open data in Europe. One of the key goals of this platform is acting as a competence centre to conduct research and provide training in the field of open data. In addition, after the launch of t…
