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Every day we receive a large amount of scientific-technological information from multiple sources: comments on social networks, news in the media, whatsapp messages... This information is conditioning our conception of the world, and our positioning as...

High diplomacy traditionally plays a role in helping cultures and nations to dialogue with each other. But when it comes to strengthening the right to land, it is the local communities themselves that have to get involved. This is the vision of the...

The agencies that finance public and private research are interested in having the results disseminated as much as possible. For this reason, and following the philosophy of open science, the funders themselves created the demand to make open the access...

The end of the year is approaching and it is time to review the goals achieved in this year by the Iniciativa Aporta, as part of its labour to boost open data and reuse of public sector information Spain. Appart from more than 16,300...

In the area of development cooperation, increasing the impact and effectiveness of aid for the reduction of poverty is an issue that is always on the table. In 2011, at the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Busan, South Korea), the most...

The COTEC Foundation, a private non-profit organization that promotes innovation as a driving force for economic and social development in Spain, recently published its report "The Reuse of Open Data: an opportunity for Spain". In this study, led by the...

More than half of the world's population are women, who also play a key role in our society. For example, it is women who grow, produce and sell more than 90% of locally grown food. Paradoxically, these same women are beneficiaries of only 1% of...

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...

The opening of the data should not be an end in itself. The open data portals created without a clear objective, lacking a well-defined plan to attract visitors, tend to fall into disuse over time. Opening public data isn’t an end in itself. Portals...

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...