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APIS for accessing and downloading tourism data
Spain was the second country in the world that received the most tourists during 2019, with 83.8 million visitors. That year, tourism activity represented 12.4% of GDP, employing more than 2.2 million people (12.7% of the total). It is therefore a fundamental sector for our economy.
These figures have been reduced due to the pandemic, but the sector is expected to…
Open data to fight against gender violence
Today, no one can deny that open data holds great economic power. The European Commission itself estimates that the turnover of open data in the EU27 could reach 334.2 billion in 2025, driven by its use in areas linked to disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning or language technologies.
But in addition to its economic impact, open…
4 examples of projects by private companies that are committed to open data sharing
The European Commission estimates that the data economy -the one whose business model is based on the exploitation of data to generate products and services-will reach a value of 550,000 million euros in the EU27 in 2025. This figure means that it will go from occupying 2.8% of GDP to 4%. Only in our country, it is aimed what will generate more than 50,000 million…
The importance of anonymization and data privacy
We are in a historical moment, where data has become a key asset for almost any process in our daily lives. There are more and more ways to collect data and more capacity to process and share it, where new technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Linked Data play a crucial role.
Both when we talk about open data, and data in general…
New initiatives to open and harness data for health research
In recent months there have been a number of important announcements related to the construction and exploitation of infrastructures and datasets related to health research. These initiatives aim to make data a vital part of a health system that is currently not extracting the maximum possible value from it.
The health data policy landscape, globally in general and…
The Spatial Data Infrastructure of Spain (IDEE), a benchmark for geospatial information
Throughout history, geospatial data have allowed humankind to better understand its environment. When we talk about geographic or spatial data, we refer to data "that implicitly or explicitly refer to a location relative to the Earth", according to the Spanish Standard UNE 148004:2018. Generally, these data are accessible on maps, visualisers, mobile devices and…
How is open data used in the health and welfare sector?
In the last year, we have seen how decisions on health matters have marked the political, social and economic agenda of our country, due to the global pandemic situation resulting from COVID-19. Decisions taken on the basis of public data on cumulative incidence, hospital bed occupancy or vaccination rates have marked our daily lives.
This fact highlights the…
Re-use of open data in public administrations
Open data is a source of information for the development of smart services, as well as for decision-making and policy-making. It is therefore not surprising that an increasing number of public bodies, in addition to opening data - for reuse by others and for reasons of accountability and transparency - are also reusing their own data for different purposes.
In this…
Google as a reuse of open data
The bet of the technological giant Google with open data it has been evident in various initiatives carried out in recent years. On the one hand, they launched the search engine Google Dataset Search, that facilitates the location of open data published in hundreds of repositories of international institutions and governments, among which is datos.gob.es. On the…
Artificial Intelligence and data: the revolution in the supply chain
Artificial intelligence is transforming companies, with supply chain processes being one of the areas that is obtaining the greatest benefit. Its management involves all resource management activities, including the acquisition of materials, manufacturing, storage and transportation from origin to final destination.
In recent years, business systems have been…
