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The end of the year is approaching and it is time to review the goals achieved in this year by the Iniciativa Aporta, as part of its labour to boost open data and reuse of public sector information Spain. Appart from more than 16,300...

In the area of development cooperation, increasing the impact and effectiveness of aid for the reduction of poverty is an issue that is always on the table. In 2011, at the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Busan, South Korea), the most...

The COTEC Foundation, a private non-profit organization that promotes innovation as a driving force for economic and social development in Spain, recently published its report "The Reuse of Open Data: an opportunity for Spain". In this study, led by the...

More than half of the world's population are women, who also play a key role in our society. For example, it is women who grow, produce and sell more than 90% of locally grown food. Paradoxically, these same women are beneficiaries of only 1% of...

Usually news related to intellectual property, copyright and licenses for works published on the Internet arise. Internet has been associated with a large open and public space, where everything is shared by all. But this is not the case, and contents...

The opening of the data should not be an end in itself. The open data portals created without a clear objective, lacking a well-defined plan to attract visitors, tend to fall into disuse over time. Opening public data isn’t an end in itself. Portals...

Under the Horizon 2020 framework, the CLARITY project will support European Member States in their pursuit for greater trust, transparency and efficiency within their open eGovernment initiatives, fostering good practices in this field in...

Beyond the already known potential privacy problems associated with open data, which has already been debated in depth and for which practical solutions and guides are already being offered, a more general and complementary debate has recently emerged...

If we analyze it with perspective, the concept of open data is not so revolutionary or novel in itself. On one hand, the philosophy of openness and/ or re-use on which open data are based had long been established between us before its formal definition...

Data analysis helps all types of entities and public and private organizations to make better evidence-based decisions more quickly and effectively. In today’s world, this area is constantly evolving: more and more data is available and its momentum...