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    ASEDIE (Multisectoral Information Association) has published its report in which components, market behavior and characteristics of infomediary sector in Spain are analysed. To carry out this study, the entity has identified and...

  Nowadays there is not doubt about  open data value and potential in business world; in recent times we have seen how several reports carried out by important international agencies such as Gartner or Capgemini show us one after another...

Last March, the National Library of Spain (BNE) published its action plan to promote the re-use of public sector information (PSI): a sound commitment to make available to the whole Spanish society the data held by the institution. This plan meets the...

Technological advances and open data movement have been factors in progress in the journalistic sphere. Nowadays, these professionals combine financial reports, interpret municipal budgets and explore geospatial information to generate stories based on...

Beyond public commitment to open information, numerous independent institutions work and invest in international projects that promote open publication and citizen participation. This is the case of Omidyar Network, a philanthropic organization that...

More and more private entities use open data to reduce risk, address business challenges and improve their competitiveness. These are some of the findings shown in the last report of Open Data Institute in relation to the impact of open data in the...

According to the global Open Data Index, carried out by OKFN, and the Open Data Barometer of World Wide Web Foundation, nations from Latin America and the Caribbean continue climbing positions in international open data ranking, gaining prominence in...

The open data working group in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) has as its main task identifying and sharing best practices that help OGP member governments alliance achieve their commitments with open data and develop more ambitious and innovative...

Last 23rd March, the GovLab and Omidyar Network published the report  Open Data Impact: When Demand and Supply Mee where key findings about the social, economic, cultural and political impact of open data are released, based on the analysis of 19...

Public bodies, academic institutions and even private sector companies store  great amounts of open data; sometimes these data follow different standards which fragment, slow down and hinder the impact of this resource. In order to make open data...