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ISA² Programme: collaboration across borders and sectors
With the establishment of the internal market in the European Union, member state administrations need to effectively exchange information beyond their borders in order to be able to comply with public services. Nevertheless, such exchange has posed a challenge since, sometimes, electronically trans…
Linked data as data model
It has been longer than 15 years since the famous article by Tim Berners Lee in which there is a talk for the first time about the web of data. This article was the germ of the semantic web initiative, an effort to evolve the way in which information was represented with the goal of moving from text…
Global report on the 4th International Open Data Conference
1,693 attendees, 89 countries represented, 87 talks and 330 speakers. These are some of the figures that summarize the last edition of the International Open Data Conference that took place in Madrid last October. Recently, the global report of the event has been published together with an interacti…
Report “Towards faster implementation and uptake of open government” by the European Commission
According to the data provided by the European Commission, the re-use of big data in the 23 largest EU countries could reduce administrative costs by 15-20%. In addition, the re-use of public services by other administrations, companies and citizens makes possible the development of personalized and…
New version of the Implementation Guide for the Technical Interoperability Standard of PSI Resources
The National Interoperability Scheme establishes a set of technical standards for the interoperability of public sector information, which must be complied by public administrations in Spain. As part of this scheme, there is the Technical Standard for the Interoperability of the Re-use of Public Sec…
New WHO data portal to track progress towards universal health coverage
According to the World Health Organization, nowadays at least 400 million people on the world do not have access to any of the most essential health services: primary care, vaccination, medicines... In fact, about 32% of health expenditure in each country comes from the direct payment of the populat…
The role of Open Data in Humanitarian Aid
The openness and re-use of open data is usually linked to the development of new business, improved governance and accountability, the advances in new technologies and socio-economic growth. However, other opportunity provided by open data is a faster and more effective response to international hea…
Introduction to the Open Data Ecosystem in the Financial Sector
In the last decade one of the most important financial crises in contemporary history took place. This financial earthquake that has shaken the world is greatly due to the risks that the entities of the sector were assuming as part of their business. The problem not only lies in the assumption of th…
Milestones of Iniciativa Aporta in 2016
Since it was launched in 2009, the Iniciativa Aporta has been working day by day in favour of the openness and re-use of public sector information in Spain. A constant effort to ensure that the country is an international benchmark for open data, according to the results of the latest European Data…
ASEDIE 2016 presentations are already available
On November 24, the Multisectoral Information Association (ASEDIE) organized the eighth edition of the International Conference on the Re-use of Public Sector Information. An annual meeting where representatives of the public sector, independent organizations, companies and citizens meet to analyze…
