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Effective equality between men and women is a common goal to be achieved as a society. This is stated by the United Nations (UN), which includes "Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls" as one of the Sustainable Development Goals to be...

On 20 October, Madrid hosted a new edition of the Data Management Summit Spain, an international summit that this year also took place in Italy (7 July) and Latam (20 September). The event brought together CiOs, CTOs, CDOs, Business Intelligence Officers...

The University of Salamanca (USAL) hosted the symposium "Justice and Law in Data: The role of Data as a change enabler and driver for the transformation of Justice and Law". The meeting was organised by the University itself, in collaboration with the...

On 20 October, the EU's open data competition came to an end after several months of competition. The final of this sixth edition of the EU Datathon was held in Brussels in the framework of the European Year of Youth and was streamed worldwide. It is...

On 25 October, the workshop "Use cases of the Spanish Tourism data space" was held, with the aim of starting the design and deployment of the first interoperable Tourism dataspace at European level, built under the Gaia-X seal. This activity,...

The IV edition of the Aporta Challenge, whose motto has revolved around 'The value of data for health and well-being of citizens', has already announced its three winners. The competition, promoted by Red.es in collaboration with the Secretary of State...

There are only a few days left until the end of summer and, as with every change of season, it is time to review what the last three months have brought in the Spanish open data ecosystem. In July we learned of the latest edition of the European...

The Data Spaces Business Alliance (DSBA) was born in September 2021, a collaboration of four major organisations with much to contribute to the data economy: the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), FIWARE, Gaia-X and the International Data Spaces...

The European Directive 2019/1024 on open data and re-use of public sector information emphasises, among many other aspects, the importance of publishing data in real time. In fact, the document talks about dynamic data, which it defines as "documents in...

The rise of smart cities, the distribution of resources during pandemics or the fight against natural disasters has awakened interest in geographic data. In the same way that open data in the healthcare field helps to implement social improvements...