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The global open data community continues to mature since the last International Open Data Conference was held in 2015 in the Canadian city of Ottawa. One year later, it’s time to continue to strengthen coordination between the different open data...

The organizing committee of the International Open Data Conference has published the programme (draft) of the event that will take place during the 6th to 7th October in Madrid. Last March the call for proposals was opened to create the agenda...

In the last decade the number of available data related to health and healthcare in Europe has grown exponentially; increased by the massive penetration of mobile devices and applications belonging to the field of health and wellness, supplemented in...

The progressive rise in food prices has raised serious concerns about food and nutrition security across the world, concept referring to the supply of food, and individuals' access to it. Though a coordinated response is urgently needed at international...

Funded by the European Union HORIZON 2020 programme the CITYkeys project is an initiative to develop a performance evaluation system to assess the results of Smart City solutions across Europe. Several research institutes from Finland, Austria and the...

CartoCrítica is an independent civil initiative, a non-profit organization that works for transparency and free access to public information in Mexico, applying geospatial technology, re-using national open data and cartographic analysis to defend the...

Pre-registration has opened for attendance at the 4th International Conference on Open Data, IODC16, to be held on 6 and 7 October in Madrid. IODC16 is the meeting point for the world community to discuss and study the future of Open Data. This new...

AGRIS is a global public database providing access to bibliographic information on agricultural science and technology containing over 8 million records, references and links to related data resources on the Web, like DBPedia, World Bank, Nature and FAO...

In Latin America, the open data movement has allowed the rise of a civil and technological community formed by groups that re-use open data to develop digital solutions that meet the needs of citizens. In fact, this region has made substantial progress...

The European Union is committed to open science, ensuring that all investigations carried out in its territory are available without any technical, legal or financial restriction as agreed in the Competitiveness Council that took place on May 27th in...