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5th edition of the report on the Infomediary Sector by ASEDIE
18-04-2017
Annually the Multisectorial Information Association (ASEDIE) publishes a report analyzing in detail the national infomediary market. This fifth edition evaluates 636 Spanish companies whose activity is based on the re-use of public and/or private...
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Collaborative, Interoperable and Open Government Platform
11-04-2017
Last January, the public entity Red.es -belonging to the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda- started together with the local governments of Zaragoza, Madrid, A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela the project "Collaborative, Interoperable and...
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Transforming open data into economic and societal value
24-04-2017
Only if data are opened and made available to society, their real potential can be re-used to improve the existing services, optimize business processes and find solutions to corporate challenges through information analysis. In fact, according to...
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New features of the European Data Portal
04-04-2017
The European Data Portal has published its 2.0 version, with a more user-friendly and intuitive design, which provides new contents and features. Thanks to the suggestions and comments given by the users after the launch of version 1.0 of the portal...
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XBRL, specifications of an open standard for the financial sector
29-03-2017
After the financial crisis in the last years, there has been a need to promote the openness of this sector information in order to show in a transparent way the risks that exist and the possible impact on the global economy of certain activities of...
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Success stories and best practices in the re-use of public information
27-03-2017
In addition to the fourth edition of the Report on Infomediary Sector Characterization, the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda and the Ministry of Finance and Public Function - under the direction of the Evaluation Area of the National...
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4th edition of the Report on Infomediary Sector Characterization 2016
24-03-2017
Regularly, the Ministries of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda and Internal Revenue Service & Public Administrations, through the National Observatory of Telecommunications & the Information Society (ONTSI), publish a report on the...
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Workshop on the Benefits of Open Data: from open data policies to re-use of public sector information
20-03-2017
In 2015, the European Commission launched the European Data Portal (EDP) to increase the accessibility of open data in Europe. One of the key goals of this platform is acting as a competence centre to conduct research and provide training in the field of...
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Data Collaboratives, initiative by The GovLab to create value through data
14-03-2017
The importance of data to improve people’s live is self-evident. As public problems grow in complexity -from climate change to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals- and new forms of expertise and information are required, greater access...
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International initiatives on capactiy building
10-03-2017
Building capacities for data producers and users is one of the key aspects in the open data movement. During the last edition of the International Open Data Conference (IODC16), professionals and experts in education gathered to discuss on the most...