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Why are licenses important?
Usually news related to intellectual property, copyright and licenses for works published on the Internet arise.
Internet has been associated with a large open and public space, where everything is shared by all. But this is not the case, and contents on the web also subject to legality and intellec…
CLARITY Project, raising the upcoming Open Government
Under the Horizon 2020 framework, the CLARITY project will support European Member States in their pursuit for greater trust, transparency and efficiency within their open eGovernment initiatives, fostering good practices in this field in conjunction with e-government, especially within local g…
Ethics in data management
Beyond the already known potential privacy problems associated with open data, which has already been debated in depth and for which practical solutions and guides are already being offered, a more general and complementary debate has recently emerged around the application of ethical standards in t…
The future of the open data and its multiple faces
If we analyze it with perspective, the concept of open data is not so revolutionary or novel in itself. On one hand, the philosophy of openness and/ or re-use on which open data are based had long been established between us before its formal definition. On the other hand, the objectives of the open…
Quality Open Data
For government data to be easy to use and valuable, it must also be detailed, accurate and high quality. However, both the Web Foundation and Open Knowledge, two of the organizations that actively promote the adoption of open data in the international arena, warn us that according to their latest st…
Conclusions from the Aporta Meeting 2017
Here we review the main conclusions taken from the 7th Aporta Meeting, which took place on October 24 at the headquarters of SESIAD and where national and international experts from the open data sector met.
With the title ´The value of data in the global ecosystem´, this year’s edition focused on a…
The regulatory framework on the re-use of public sector information: comments for future revision
The European Union has just made public a paper that, several years of the 2013 reform bring in force, proposes how to tackle overcoming the barriers and difficulties that have been detected since. Recognising the important advance that has taken place over the last few years, the Commission highlig…
IATI the international open data campaign on development aid
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is a global campaign established by high level bodies who work in international development cooperation within the “Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness”, held in Accra, Ghana, in 2008. It is a campaign aimed at publishing open data of info…
All a Challenge #Aporta2017
Ten teams, five months of hard work, a large dose of enthusiasm and ten final prototypes where open data, technology, public administrations, re-use and innovation have gone hand in hand. At the end of October at the headquarters of red.esthe presentation before the jury for the ten final prototyp…
Open Data in the Judicial Field: Past, Present and Future
One of the pioneering areas in the reuse of information from the public sector has been that of judicial information. Even before the irruption of information and communication technologies, professionals in this field were already proficient in consulting jurisprudential repertoires published by pr…
