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New regulation on open data and re-use of public sector information under scrutiny
Last December, the Congress of Deputies validated Royal Decree-Law 24/2021, which transposed several European directives, including Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on open data and the re-use of public sector information. This directive seeks to broaden the scope of application of the previous regulation,…
Access to data through Safe Reading rooms
The European Data Strategy aims to create a single market where data flows between countries and sectors. In this respect, the public sector holds a large amount of data of value to citizens. Much of this data are made openly available through various open data platforms, but there are also data ove…
Courses to broaden your knowledge of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been pervasive in our lives for several years now. While there is no exact definition of AI, one description could be "the ability of a machine to display human-like capabilities such as reasoning, learning, planning and creativity". This process is done through the…
Conclusions of Tourism Data Spaces how can data spaces contribute to tourism development in Europe?
The Tourism Data Space event took place on 9 June, organised by Gaia-X, the European private sector initiative for the creation of an open, federated and interoperable data infrastructure to drive the Data Economy while respecting digital sovereignty. During the event, which was held online, interna…
The 10 finalists of the 4th Aporta Challenge have been published
Last November, Red.es, in collaboration with the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence launched the 4th edition of the Aporta Challenge. Under the slogan "The value of data for health and well-being of citizens", the competition seeks to identify new services and solution…
The new Open Data Portal of the Provincial Council of Castellón
The number of public institutions and local governments that continue to commit to implementing initiatives aimed at bringing open information closer to the public is growing all the time. If a few months ago we shared the work of Gipuzkoa Irekia or Open Data BizKaia, now it is the turn of the Provi…
10 courses to broaden your data literacy this summer
The coming days will see the beginning of a season of sun, heat, beach and, in many cases, more free time, which makes this season a perfect opportunity to expand our training on a wide variety of subjects, among which data, a cross-cutting subject in different sectors, cannot be missing.
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What's new in the open data ecosystem (Spring 22)
Spring, in addition to the arrival of good weather, has brought a great deal of news related to the open data ecosystem and data sharing. Over the last three months, European-driven developments have continued, with two initiatives that are currently in the public consultation phase standing out:
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The role of the European Data Portal within the EU data spaces initiative
What role can data portals play in the context of the data spaces identified in the European Data Strategy? This is the question posed by the European Commission, through its open data initiative 'data.europa.eu', and which serves as the starting point for the report "data.europa.eu and the European…
European Commission launches public consultation to seek public opinion on its draft High Value Data law
The current Directive 2019/1024 on open data and re-use of public sector information, adopted in June 2019, was established to replace and improve the former Directive 2003/98/EC. Among its objectives was to boost the availability of public sector data for re-use by establishing some minimum harmoni…
