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According to the data provided by the European Commission, the re-use of big data in the 23 largest EU countries could reduce administrative costs by 15-20%. In addition, the re-use of public services by other administrations, companies and citizens...

The National Interoperability Scheme establishes a set of technical standards for the interoperability of public sector information, which must be complied by public administrations in Spain. As part of this scheme, there is the Technical Standard for...

According to the World Health Organization, nowadays at least 400 million people on the world do not have access to any of the most essential health services: primary care, vaccination, medicines... In fact, about 32% of health expenditure in each...

The openness and re-use of open data is usually linked to the development of new business, improved governance and accountability, the advances in new technologies and socio-economic growth. However, other opportunity provided by open data is a faster...

Since it was launched in 2009, the Iniciativa Aporta has been working day by day in favour of the openness and re-use of public sector information in Spain. A constant effort to ensure that the country is an international benchmark for open data,...

In the last decade one of the most important financial crises in contemporary history took place. This financial earthquake that has shaken the world is greatly due to the risks that the entities of the sector were assuming as part of their business. The...

On November 24, the Multisectoral Information Association (ASEDIE) organized the eighth edition of the International Conference on the Re-use of Public Sector Information. An annual meeting where representatives of the public sector, independent...

In order to publicly present the new API REST AEMET Open Data, which grants access to national meteorological and climatological data, the State Meteorological Agency organized on December 13 an event at its headquarters in Madrid to promote the re-use...

The results of the third edition of the Open Data Barometer clearly show how open data have already become a global trend throughout the world, with more than half of the 92 countries analyzed actively working on their initiatives to open up the...

Knowing the open data initiatives that are currently being carried out in each of the regions of the planet can be a difficult task. Different languages and socio-economic contexts, cultural varieties, diverse policies for re-use of public sector...