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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…
European webinar: how to ensure cybersecurity of open data
As part of the European Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the European data portal, data.europa.eu, has organized a webinar focused on the protection of open data.This event comes at a critical time when organisations, especially in the public sector, face the challenge of balancing data transparency a…
The state of innovation and digital transformation in Spain
Digital transformation has become a fundamental pillar for the economic and social development of countries in the 21st century. In Spain, this process has become particularly relevant in recent years, driven by the need to adapt to an increasingly digitalised and competitive global environment. The…
Openness and data sharing among Parliament's priorities
The European Parliament's tenth parliamentary term started on July, a new institutional cycle that will run from 2024-2029. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was elected for a second term, after presenting to the European Parliament her Political Guidelines for the…
European webinars: recommendations for opening up high-value data through real use cases
The European open data portal (data.europa.eu) regularly organises virtual training sessions on topical issues in the open data sector, the regulations they affect and related technologies. In this post, we review the key takeaways from the latest webinar on High Value Datasets (HVD).
Among oth…
European Open Data Portal publishes second volume of its Use Case Observatory
The Use Case Observatory is an initiative led by data.europa.eu, the European Open Data Portal. This is a research project on the economic, governmental, social and environmental impact of open data. The project will run for three years, from 2022 to 2025, during which the European Data Portal will…
Spain, among the European leaders in open data
The European Data Portal, data.europa.eu, has just published its Data Maturity Index, an index that assesses the level of maturity of European countries in terms of open data. For its elaboration, an evaluation survey has been carried out and has been completed by 35 countries, including the 27 Memb…
Spanish economy "undergoing an ambitious digital transformation", according to the Report of the state of the Digital Decade
The European Commission has published the first Report of the state of the Digital Decade. It takes stock of the progress of the European Union on its way to the success of the digital transformation, as set out in the Digital Decade Policy Agenda 2030. The document builds on the agreements and…
What is an interoperability node in Gaia-X?
Gaia-X represents an innovative paradigm for linking data more closely to the technological infrastructure underneath, so as to ensure the transparency, origin and functioning of these resources. This model allows us to deploy a sovereign and transparent data economy, which respects European fundame…
Use Case Observatory, a European Open Data Portal initiative to measure the impact of open data
Measuring the impact of open data is one of the challenges facing open data initiatives. Ther are a variety of methods, most of which combine quantitative and qualitative analysis in order to understand the value of specific datasets.
In this context, data.europa.eu, the European Open Data Portal, h…
