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Data Collaboratives, initiative by The GovLab to create value through data
The importance of data to improve people’s live is self-evident. As public problems grow in complexity -from climate change to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals- and new forms of expertise and information are required, greater access to information, its treatment and re-use is in…
International initiatives on capactiy building
Building capacities for data producers and users is one of the key aspects in the open data movement. During the last edition of the International Open Data Conference (IODC16), professionals and experts in education gathered to discuss on the most effective methodologies to provide the global…
Workshop organized by the European Data Portal
On 22 and 23 February, a seminar organized by representatives of the European Data Portal (EDP) and the Open Data Institute took place in Madrid, where ten public data representatives from Spain, Germany and Italy were gathered. The goals of the sessions were aimed at identifying the common challeng…
Role and challenges of open data standards
Although there are increasingly more available data nowadays, it is still very difficult to work with these data due, among other reasons, to the fact that they are generally published in different formats, following different data models that hinder their re-use and merge.
According to the principl…
Recommendations for open data portals: from setup to sustainability
According to the second European Commission's open data maturity report, EU+28 member states have improved 28.6% in their open data policies in the last year. This progress is translated into an overall maturity of open data portals of 64% across Europe. Yet most do not have coherent strategies for…
Open data, big data and open government: six subtypes of data
What do open data and big data have in common? At what point do the open data and open government movements converge? In order to answer these theoretical questions, it would first be necessary to understand each of the three concepts independently. In this regard, big data can be defined as la…
List of best practices by Share-PSI 2.0
The European Directive on the Re-use of Public Sector Information (RISP), which was revised in 2013, came into forceon 31 December 2003 to include a greater number of entities - museums, libraries and archives - in order to promote the openess and re-use of public open data by European Uni…
When can information related to natural persons be reused? The scope of the interpretive criteria of the Protection Agency
As already mentioned in an earlier post, a few months ago the Spanish Data Protection Agency published its guidelines on the implications of the aforementioned fundamental right in the context of initiatives and projects for the re-use of public sector information. This is undoubtedly one of t…
Second Action Plan for International Open Data Collaboration
With the goal of involving and promoting the collaboration of the global open data community, the first open data roadmap was created after the third edition of the International Open Data Conference in Canada in 2015. An action plan that included a set of core activities to maximize the potential o…
Public information accessibility according to PSI standards: an enforceable obligation
The reform of the eGovernment, which came into force only a few months ago, is a far-reaching change not only from the point of view of the technological modernization of the administrative management, but also indirectly of the technical and legal conditions according to which information must be a…
