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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One of the main implications of Open Government refers to citizens’ participation in public authorities’ decisions making. This requirement acquires a special importance in the elaboration of regulation, hence, after the reform of the administrative...

Currently, most of the data opened in Europe are stored in portals and national catalogs that facilitate the search, location and reuse of such information. For this reason, it is essential to ensure the sustainability of these repositories that connect...

Every day we receive a large amount of scientific-technological information from multiple sources: comments on social networks, news in the media, whatsapp messages... This information is conditioning our conception of the world, and our positioning as...

High diplomacy traditionally plays a role in helping cultures and nations to dialogue with each other. But when it comes to strengthening the right to land, it is the local communities themselves that have to get involved. This is the vision of the...

The agencies that finance public and private research are interested in having the results disseminated as much as possible. For this reason, and following the philosophy of open science, the funders themselves created the demand to make open the access...