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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...

Since 2014, the European Commission has been monitoring Member States' digital progress through the annual DESI Digital Economy and Society Index. To do so, it analyses four digital performance indicators: human capital, connectivity, digital technology...

The Constituent Assembly of the Gaia-X Spain Association, whose headquarters are located in Talavera de la Reina, was held on 18 March. The event brought together more than 150 entities of all kinds, including companies, public bodies, universities and...

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...

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...

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...

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....