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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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Last September, the last edition of Open Data Barometer was presented by the World Wide Web Foundation. The report measures how some governments, not including Spain, publish and use open data to facilitate accountability, boost innovation and generate...

One of the main debates in the Internet legal field is related to intellectual property. Only a few days ago, the European Parliament approved a proposal for a copyright reform in order to adapt the regulation to technological uniqueness of the Internet...