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6 books about data and new technologies to give at Christmas
Lights in the streets, nougat and polvorones on the supermarket shelves, Christmas carols in all shopping centers... Christmas is here, and it is time to write a letter to the Three Wise Men or Santa Claus, according to personal tastes.
A book is always a good gift, even more if it is related to an…
The role of open data in the evolution of precision agriculture
Advances in precision agriculture are considered one of the greatest hopes to solve the huge imbalance of food supply and demand that humanity faces in this century -various international organizations have been warning for decades about this problem-. There are many innovations in the field of smar…
Challenges and opportunities of open geographic data
Geographical data are highly relevant from the economic point of view. According to Reusing Open Data report, written by the European Data Portal, geographic data is the second most reused and consulted data category by companies in the member states of the European Union, only behind statistical in…
Conclusions of Aporta Meeting 2018
Public data is a fundamental asset for economic development and the improvement of transparency and public services. This is one of the main conclusions of Aporta Meeting 2018, which took place on November 28, at the Secretariat of State for Digital Progress.
More than 300 people were able to follow…
Guidance to drive the private sector data sharing in the European data economy
One of the main objectives of the European Union is the creation of a Digital Single Market, where member states can share data in a safe and simple way, without high costs. To achieve this objective, the European Union have carried out different activities, such as the European General Data Protect…
Spain, trend-setter on open data in Europe, according to the European Data Portal
For the fourth consecutive year, the European Data Portal has published the European Open Data Maturity Landscaping 2018. This study gathers the current situation and the progress made by the different European countries in terms of open data.
Experts have identified a number of countries with high…
The fingerprint of our data
The revelations about the security and privacy gaps that have took place lately in big companies that we all use almost daily, such as Google or Facebook (once again), are unfortunately more and more frequent. If we can get out something positive of all this, it is that users are beginning to realiz…
Presentations for the 10th International Conference on Public Information Reuse of Asedie are now available
On October 23, the 10th International Conference on Public Information Reuse took place at the headquarters of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection in Madrid. On this occasion, the chosen theme was "Information, an essential resource for economic development".
Since 2009 the main objective of Ased…
Open Data Euskadi: a consolidated and sustainable open data portal
An increasing number of governments support the development of initiatives to favor public information opening, due to its multiple benefits. One example is Open Data Euskadi, the open data initiative of Basque Government.
Open Data Euskadi works jointly with the three provincial councils and the to…
The importance of digitizing our audiovisual heritage
The National Library of Spain has started, with the support of Red.es, their first massive digitization project focused on magnetic audio and video media. The institution plans to digitize more than 650,000 minutes of images and audio, including 4,800 cassettes, 859 cartridges and more than 5,000 VH…
