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Language Technologies are a field of Artificial Intelligence, which allows, among other things, to automatically exploit the large amount of textual and oral information we have access to. To boost its development, the Secretary of State for Digital...

Governments, private sector, donors, multilateral organizations ... there are many and diverse actors that have been building the open data movement during the last decade until it reach the current level. Each of them has its own agenda and interests,...

The "Support Center for Data Sharing" (SCDS) is a new initiative funded by the European Commission with the aim of boosting the European data ecosystem. It is a website aimed at governments, companies and citizens, focused on researching and reporting...

In the regulation of the right of access to public sector information, making a request is essential to obtain the data. This request gives rise to the corresponding administrative procedure, so that the user could obtain the information only after the...

According to World Bank data, agriculture is one of the main economic sectors in the world, with an added value of more than three trillion dollars. But its importance goes much further. Sustainable agriculture, in addition to generating wealth, can help...

For the Special Rapporteur on the rights to privacy of the United Nations General Assembly, Joe Cannataci, data is and will be a key economic asset, as capital and labour. For this reason, it has recently urged the public and private sectors to review...

10 proposals have been selected among the 40 ideas presented in Phase I of the Aporta Challenge 2019. Now the second phase begins, where participants will have to develop a prototype in 4 months and present it in front of a jury of experts in the field....

When the open data portal of Castilla y León was launched more than 7 years ago, its managers understood that the project had a great potential and, with the passage of time, it would become more important. Since then, they have made a great effort so...

The third edition of the EU Dathaton 2019 has come to an end. 99 projects were presented, and 12 was selected to pitched their project at the final of this competition, which seeks to promote the use of open data in EU countries to generate new ideas,...

The presentation of the BNEscolar project took place on July 2. The event was attended by the Secretary of State for Education, Alejandro Tiana, the General Director of the National Library of Spain (BNE), Ana Santos, and the General Director of Red.es,...