10 interviews found for "Covid"
Podcast: Data and open knowledge in Spanish institutions
Science and technology
Open knowledge is knowledge that can be reused, shared and improved by other users and researchers without noticeable restrictions. This includes data, academic publications, software and other available resources. To explore this topic in more depth, we have representatives from two institutions whose aim is to promote scientific production and make it available in…
Podcast: data governance
Public sector
This episode focuses on data governance and why it is important to have standards, policies and processes in place to ensure that data is correct, reliable, secure and useful. For this purpose, we analyze the Model Ordinance on Data Governance of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, known as the FEMP, and its application in a public body such as…
Entrevista a Data Express, equipo desarrollador de Helpvoice!, ganadores del IV Desafío Aporta
Science and technology
Healthcare
HelpVoice! es un servicio diseñado para ayudar a las personas mayoresque hayan podido sufrir algún percance,utilizando técnicas de reconocimiento de voz basadas en aprendizaje automático. Este prototipo se hizo con el primer premio del IV Desafío Aporta, centrado en el valor del dato para la salud y el bienestar de los ciudadanos.Hemos hablado con sus creadores,…
Interview with Thais Ruiz de Alda, founder and CEO of Digital Fems
Science and technology
Today, data drives the world. It conditions public policies, the behaviour of algorithms and the decision-making of many companies. That is why it is important to have figures that correctly represent reality, i.e. that take into account all variables, including gender.
Thais Ruiz de Alda is founder and CEO of Digital Fems, an entity that designs projects to increase…
Interview with Hélène Verbrugghe, Meta's Public Policy Manager for Spain and Portugal
Science and technology
A few months ago, Facebook surprised us all with a name change: it became Meta. This change alludes to the concept of "metaverse" that the brand wants to develop, uniting the real and virtual worlds, connecting people and communities.
Among the initiatives within Meta is Data for Good, which focuses on sharing data while preserving people's privacy. Helene Verbrugghe…
Interview with Belén Gancedo, Director of Education at Microsoft Ibérica
Science and technology
Open data is not only a matter of public administrations, more and more companies are also betting on them. This is the case of Microsoft, who has provided access to selected open data in Azure designed for the training of Machine Learning models. He also collaborates in the development of multiple projects in order to promote open data. In Spain…
Interview with Inés Huertas, Leticia Martín-Fuertes and Elen Irazabal, R- Ladies
Science and technology
R-Ladies is a software community that aims to give visibility to women who work or develop projects or software using R to do so. It is a local branch of R-Ladies Global, an open source community born in 2016.
Its organisers, Inés Huertas, Leticia Martín-Fuertes and Elen Irazabal, gave us a few minutes to talk about the activities carried out by this community and…
Interview with Adolfo Antón, data journalist
Society and welfare
Data journalism is one of the disciplines that has grown the most in the media in recent years, both within and outside our borders. This form of journalism consists of collecting accurate data, analysing it and making it available to the public through articles and/or graphic and interactive resources, facilitating the understanding of complex issues.
In…
Interview with Emilio López Cano, R Hispano
Science and technology
R Hispano is a community of users and developers that was born in 2011, within the III Conference of R Users, with the aim of promoting the advancement of knowledge and the use of the programming language in R. From datos.gob.es we have spoken with them so that they can tell us more about the activities they carry out and the role of open data in them.
Full…
Interview with Ainara Zubillaga, COTEC Foundation
Education
Public sector
During 2020 the education sector has been exposed to great changes due to the global pandemic. Homes were transformed into classrooms, which was a challenge for everyone involved in the educational ecosystem.
The COTEC Foundation, a private non-profit organization charged with promoting innovation for economic and social development, closely followed this situation…
