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Open data as an effective tool for sustainable development

In August 2014 the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon asked a group of independent experts to develop specific recommendations on how to carry out a data revolution for sustainable development.

Open Data Ayuntamiento de Güeñes

Open Data Badalona

Open Data Barometer, assessment of global open data

Open data has become an essential resource to build effective and responsible institutions, providing at the same time access to information: two of the seventeen global commitments (SDGs) agreed by UN in 2016.

Open data beyond the public sector

From its origins, the open data movement has been focused on opening up public sector data, and even the original statement of open data principles itself refers only to data from public administrations (open government data - OGD).

Open data, big data and open government: six subtypes of data

What do open data and big data have in common? At what point do the open data and open government movements converge? In order to answer these theoretical questions, it would first be necessary to understand each of the three concepts independently.

Open Data Bizkaia: a good example of data openness in county councils

The number of local governments that continue to bet on developing initiatives that favor the opening of public information to benefit from its numerous advantages continues to grow.

Open Data Challenge: concurso europeo de reutilización de datos

Las plataformas Open Knowledge Foundation y Open Forum Academy, bajo los auspicios de la iniciativa Share PSI, han convocado un concurso paneuropeo dirigido a la promoción de la apertura y reutilización de la información pública.

Open Data Companion

Open Data Companion es una aplicación móvil que ofrece un punto de acceso único a más de 170 portales open data y miles de bancos de datos internacionales en una interfaz diseñada especialmente para dispositivos móviles.