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Interview with Alberto Palomo-Lozano, Chief Data Officer of the Spanish Government: "It is important to have a common governance that allows data sharing"
Just a few days ago, Alberto Palomo-Lozano, Chief Data Officer of the Spanish Government, participated in Cibercotizante, one of Capital Radio's most followed technology programmes. Throughout the almost thirty minutes of the interview, Palomo-Lozano gives a succinct assessment of his first 10 month…
10 public data repositories related to tourism
In recent times, open data has become an element of great value when it comes to improving the quality of life and offering greater benefits to citizens in different sectors. One of them is tourism, and it is that the number of public administrations that are opening their data in this field is incr…
Alba Smart: developing relevant content to drive open data
When launching an open data initiative, it is necessary that everyone involved in its development is aware of the benefits of open data, and that they are clear about the processes and workflows needed to achieve the goals. This is the only way to achieve an initiative with up-to-date data that meet…
The main tourism datasets from datos.gob.es
Who hasn't ever used an app to plan a romantic getaway, a weekend with friends or a family holiday? More and more digital platforms are emerging to help us calculate the best route, find the cheapest petrol station or make recommendations about hotels and restaurants according to our tastes and need…
10th edition of Asedie's Infomediary Sector Report available
ASEDIE (the Multisectoral Information Association) has just published a new edition of its Infomediary Sector Report, which analyses the real, economic and social value of companies reusing data from the public and/or private sector to develop value-added products. The presentation took place at an…
Open Data Bizkaia: a good example of data openness in county councils
The number of local governments that continue to bet on developing initiatives that favor the opening of public information to benefit from its numerous advantages continues to grow. We recently saw the example of Gipuzkoa Irekia and today we want to tell you about the case of the initiative Open Da…
Europe launches a series of grants to boost high-value data
The European Union wants to bring digital technology closer to businesses, citizens and public administrations. To this end, it launched the Digital Europe Programme, which aims to close the gap between research in digital technology and its implementation in all sectors of the economy and society.…
Online courses to learn more about data visualization
The data-related skills are becoming more cross-cutting. The data analytics has become essential for take decisions in organisations of all sizes and sectors. But to communicate the results of the analytics to the different interlocutors, it’s necessary to work with graphics, visualisations and narr…
Europe looks at the importance of measuring data demand in the public sector
What are the needs of European public institutions that reuse open data? This is the question posed by the European Commission, through the European open data initiative data.europa.eu, and which is the starting point of the report "Measuring data demand within the public sector", recently published…
Gaia-X and the drive for the data economy
The application of new techniques aimed at extracting value from data has become a reality in the current environment, accelerating its transformation into knowledge for decision making. Therefore, it is common to focus on the exploitation of data as an indispensable part of its management, arising…
