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Ranking of most visited datasets in datos.gob.es
Last week we talked about the activities planning for the Open Gov Week, which takes place around the world from May 7 - 11. One of the objectives of this initiative is to promote and publicize data opening through training, awareness and education actions.
Open data allows citizens to be involved i…
Public-private collaboration to create value from the data
Public-private collaborations could be defined as long-term contracts between a government agency and a private entity with the objective of providing a public asset or service. The private party assumes a significant part of the responsibility and the risks, and generally get the possible benefits.…
Implications of GDPR for Public Administrations
Next May 25th, the period of two years that the European Union provided to companies and Public Administrations to comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ends. This Regulation affects any company or organization that manages personal data of EU citizens, regardless of its orig…
Open the deadline to propose new datasets for the FEMP Open Data Guide
The open data group from the Local Entities Network for Transparency and Citizen Participation, included in the Federation of Municipalities and Provinces of Spain (FEMP), create a task force to continue its work of identifying datasets that facilitate to homogenize the publication of open data and…
How does GDPR affect open personal data?
The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mark a before and after in the rights of citizens with respect to the governance of personal data and citizens’ privacy. This Regulation updates the Data Protection Directive created in 1995 and obsolete according to the new technological environment…
What are open geographic data? UNE 148004: 2018 standard gives you the answer
In recent years, the opening of geographic data has allowed citizens and companies to better understand their environment, through maps and visualizations such as those included in the SignA portal of the National Geographic Institute or the digital Atlas of urban areas of the Ministry of Developmen…
VI Infomediary sector report by ASEDIE
For the sixth consecutive year, ASEDIE (Multisectorial Information Association) has presented a new edition of its report on the infomediary sector. Its objective is to favor the opening of databases and to know the real economic and social value that this sector brings to society. To that end, 662…
Access and reuse of public information to improve open government
Although the concept of open government dated to several decades before, it is now, with digital world revolution, when open government development is being facilitated. Citizens demand a more active role in political life, which is leading governments to transform democratic systems, based on 3 pri…
The entities in charge of resolving ethical issues in the use of data
We have already written several times before about the future of open data, the need to keep our personal data under control, the increasing relevance of algorithms in the decision-making processes that affect various aspects of our lives and, as a consequence, the need to establish clear principles…
The contracting party in Spain from the point of view of the reuse
The information regarding the purchases of services or supplies, or the information about public works contracts carried out by the administrations in the exercise of their competencies are probably two examples that do not generate a big debate regarding to what information should be publicly acces…
