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Every Friday the Open Data Institute, ODI, provides tea, coffee and an interesting talk. Every Friday, at 1 p.m., there is a date with data. A date with #ODIFridays, a model of open free lectures every Friday at lunchtime that...

There are numerous studies and news articles that talk about the impact that the use of open data may have, and is already having, on the economy of countries or on business opportunities for both traditional companies and new entrepreneurs. However,...

Every item of data counts. And even more so where well-identified and structured data is concerned. A single gap such as gender in datasets can mean a great deal. The Data Journalism Conferences, which have been held in ...

Here at the Aporta Initiative we invite ingenious minds to come up with ideas with the purpose of promoting creative solutions that represent improvements in the efficiency of the Administration through the use of open data.  This is the...

Funded by the European Commission, the OpenAIRE project is designed to foster open science in the EU in order to accelerate research and encourage open innovation in the Member States. Openaire is an initiative based on two pillars: on the one hand, the...

One of the culminating moments of public activity throughout each year is the processing and approval of the respective budgets in the scope of the State, the Autonomous Regions or the Local Authorities. It was precisely in the origin of the...

A new version of the Download Center of the National Geographic Information Center was published in April. An website portal to download free digital open data files produced by the General Directorate of the National Geographic Institute. In addition...

The Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit organization working for government transparency, has launched a guide to help local governments increase citizen participation in their open data policies and improve communities through public information. This...

The public sector should not only be consideres a large open data provider, but also as one of the main and first users in any government open data project. According to the report on success stories and best practices for the re-use of public...

The results of the third edition of the Open Data Barometer shows how governments, as part of their usual activity, are already collecting and managing a large amount of data in areas as diverse as cartography, land registry, statistics, budgets and...