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The V Open Government Plan incorporates concrete measures to promote open data
On October 6, the V Open Government Plan was approved, an initiative that gives continuity to the commitment of public administrations to transparency, citizen participation and accountability. This new plan, which will be in force until 2029, includes 218 measures grouped into 10 commitments t…
Spain reinforces its commitment to open data through the adoption of the International Open Data Charter
Spain has taken another step towards consolidating a public policy based on transparency and digital innovation. Through the General State Administration, the Government of Spain has signed its adhesion to the International Open Data Charter, within the framework of the IX Global Summit of…
First AI language models available in the four official languages as part of ALIA project
Since last week, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) language models trained in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Valencian and Basque, which have been developed within ALIA, the public infrastructure of AI resources, are now available. Through the ALIA Kit users can access the entire family of models and le…
Data ecosystem developments in Spain: second half of 2024
Researchers and students from various centers have also reported advances resulting from working with data:The last days of the year are always a good time to look back and assess the progress made. If a few weeks ago we took stock of what happened in the Aporta initiative, now it is time to compile…
Conclusions of the II Forum of the Government and the Autonomous Communities on the data
On 28 November, the 2nd Forum for the Government and the Autonomous Communities to meet around data was held in Seville, organised by the State Secretariat for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence (SEDIA), in collaboration with the Andalusian Institute of Statistics and Cartography (IECA) and…
Eight Spanish solutions among the finalists of the European Best Cases Award 2024.
The 2024 Best Cases Awards of the Public Sector Tech Watch observatory now have finalists. These awards seek to highlight solutions that use emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence or blockchain, in public administrations, through two categories:
Solutions to improve the public…
Data ecosystem developments in Spain: first half 2024
It seems like only yesterday that we were finishing eating our grapes and welcoming the new year. However, six months have already passed, during which we have witnessed many new developments in the world, in Spain and also in the open data ecosystem.
Join us as we take a look back at some of the mo…
Boosting the promotion of open data through the Sustainable Mobility Bill
The Council of Ministers approved in February this year the Sustainable Mobility Bill (PL), a commitment to a digital and innovative transport system in which open mobility data will play a key role.
Inaddition to regulating innovative solutions such as on-demand transport, car sharing or…
Open data ecosystem developments (summer 2022)
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 Commission's DESI (Digital Economy and Society Index)…
12 outstanding datasets from the General State Administration
Thanks to the efforts of the 160 organizations that publish data on the datos.gob.es platform, the National Open Data Catalog has reached 50,000 published datasets. Among them, we find datasets published by all levels of administration (state, regional and local), divided into the 22 thematic catego…
