Use Cases

Statistics Estonia provides several visualisations of economic figures for Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, the Russian Federation, Latvia, and Lithuania. On the website, several graphs show actuals and trends of export and import products, trade balances, the destination and shipping countries of products.

Bilancio Aperto (Open Budget) makes state budget information accessible to the public, thereby increasing transparency of government spending and improving accountability. The application is designed for civil servants, parliamentarians, and citizens and provides access to revenues, expenses, balances, statement of accounts, the current budget, and budget laws.

The Barcelona Waste Map is an interactive map showing the location of oil recycling bins in the city. This helps citizens to locate them, dispose of their litter at the allocated containers, and keep the city clean. The website in created with OpenStreetMap and Carto. This is one example of a private individual who has created several maps for cities in Spain, most of which visualise population data.

Bäderampel (Bathroom Traffic Light) provides an overview of public pools and the current occupancy. As of the summer of 2020 and measures taken in response to the pandemic, the number of available spots in public pools has been limited, Bäderampel therefore shows where spots are still available.

Ártabro Tech is a technology consulting company that helps companies with data treatment and in using artificial intelligence. Ártabro offers products such as Ártabro Tender for monitoring public competition tenders, or tools for technological surveillance including automatic text tagging, natural language processing, as well as various customised consulting services for Industry 4.0 and business intelligence solutions.

The Transparency Portal aggregates health data from various entities across Portugal and makes these datasets available to the public. It aims to create transparency and increase efficiency in the national health service (NHS) and enable access to high-quality health data for institutions, citizens, and health professionals.

MTender is a website created by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Moldova and provides electronic public procurement records to increase efficiency of spending, and contribute to transparency of the state’s budget. As a digital service, it shortens the time between procurement planning and payment, as well as the time for tenders, and waiting times for suppliers and contractors.

Open Court is a website designed to provide information such as the average number of cases a given court handles, the time a case lasts, the court workload, the average budget, and the experience of judges working in court. The website covers 49 courts in Lithuania, including the district courts, the district administrative courts, the Supreme Administrative Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court.

Meng Loft is the official air quality application of the Environment Agency in Luxembourg for mobile devices. The application makes it possible to check actual and historical trends, and monitor the main pollutants such as ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and particulate matter (PM10).

Mobilux is a free mobile application that allows users to subscribe to real-time alerts for traffic and weather information. The application is connected to an open data streaming service and available for several mobile devices.