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In addition to the fourth edition of the Report on Infomediary Sector Characterization, the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda and the Ministry of Finance and Public Function - under the direction of the Evaluation Area of the National...

Regularly, the Ministries of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda and Internal Revenue Service & Public Administrations, through the National Observatory of Telecommunications & the Information Society (ONTSI), publish a report on the...

In 2015, the European Commission launched the European Data Portal (EDP) to increase the accessibility of open data in Europe. One of the key goals of this platform is acting as a competence centre to conduct research and provide training in the field of...

The importance of data to improve people’s live is self-evident. As public problems grow in complexity -from climate change to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals- and new forms of expertise and information are required, greater access...

Building capacities for data producers and users is one of the key aspects in the open data movement. During the last edition of the International Open Data Conference (IODC16), professionals and experts in education gathered to discuss on the most...

On 22 and 23 February, a seminar organized by representatives of the European Data Portal (EDP) and the Open Data Institute took place in Madrid, where ten public data representatives from Spain, Germany and Italy were gathered. The goals of the sessions...

Although there are increasingly more available data nowadays, it is still very difficult to work with these data due, among other reasons, to the fact that they are generally published in different formats, following different data models that hinder...

According to the second European Commission's open data maturity report, EU+28 member states have improved 28.6% in their open data policies in the last year. This progress is translated into an overall maturity of open data portals of 64% across Europe...

What do open data and big data have in common? At what point do the open data and open government movements converge? In order to answer these theoretical questions, it would first be necessary to understand each of the three concepts independently. In...

The European Directive on the Re-use of Public Sector Information (RISP), which was revised in 2013, came into forceon 31 December 2003 to include a greater number of entities - museums, libraries and archives - in order to promote the openess and...