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One of the culminating moments of public activity throughout each year is the processing and approval of the respective budgets in the scope of the State, the Autonomous Regions or the Local Authorities. It was precisely in the origin of the...

A new version of the Download Center of the National Geographic Information Center was published in April. An website portal to download free digital open data files produced by the General Directorate of the National Geographic Institute. In addition...

The Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit organization working for government transparency, has launched a guide to help local governments increase citizen participation in their open data policies and improve communities through public information. This...

The public sector should not only be consideres a large open data provider, but also as one of the main and first users in any government open data project. According to the report on success stories and best practices for the re-use of public...

The results of the third edition of the Open Data Barometer shows how governments, as part of their usual activity, are already collecting and managing a large amount of data in areas as diverse as cartography, land registry, statistics, budgets and...

Annually the Multisectorial Information Association (ASEDIE) publishes a report analyzing in detail the national infomediary market. This fifth edition evaluates 636 Spanish companies whose activity is based on the re-use of public and/or private...

Last January, the public entity Red.es -belonging to the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda- started together with the local governments of Zaragoza, Madrid, A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela the project "Collaborative, Interoperable and...

Only if data are opened and made available to society, their real potential can be re-used to improve the existing services, optimize business processes and find solutions to corporate challenges through information analysis. In fact, according to...

The European Data Portal has published its 2.0 version, with a more user-friendly and intuitive design, which provides new contents and features. Thanks to the suggestions and comments given by the users after the launch of version 1.0 of the portal...

After the financial crisis in the last years, there has been a need to promote the openness of this sector information in order to show in a transparent way the risks that exist and the possible impact on the global economy of certain activities of...