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Patient-generated health data
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person visits have been limited, which has complicated the communication between patients and healthcare providers. To overcome these challenges, medical staff use various channels to stay in touch with the patients, report patient outcomes, and share information at the same time. The use of technology in combination with a shift towards patient-centricity in healthcare has resulted in an opportunity to create patient-generated health data (PGHD). PGHD is generated by the patients themselves and can be created from active and passive data sources. Active
Digital trends in the construction and built environment sector
Over the last year, nearly all sectors have shifted to virtual ways of working. For those sectors whose activity is deeply rooted in the physical world, such as in the construction and built environment sector, this sparked the need to monitor even better what is happening on working sites and prevent efficiency loss whilst still delivering successful projects. New technologies are emerging that make this possible. For instance, cameras with 360° angles can be installed in building sites to monitor progress from a distance. Using the data from the cameras, a site can be reconstructed in 3D
The economic impact of open data in Estonia
On the basis of the Economic Impact of Open Data study published last year, the authors and EDP researchers Esther Huyer and Laura van Knippenberg forecast that the potential open data market size for Estonia could reach a total of €445 million by 2025. This is an optimistic scenario based on the rapid progress Estonia has demonstrated in supplying and re-using open data, further confirmed by how the country jumped from 27th to 5th place in the European Open Data Maturity index over the last two years. To unlock this potential, collaboration between the public and the private sector is
Tourism 4.0
The tourism sector has been hugely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a means to support the industry and create new initiatives, stakeholders have been actively looking into open data, automation and innovative technologies such as virtual reality, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing. Tourism 4.0 is one of those initiatives designed to inspire a new version of tourism by shifting from a tourist-centred perspective to a tourism-centred perspective. In Slovenia for instance, the demo pilot project Tourism 4.0 Living Lab demonstrates the potential of Tourism 4.0 to the public
Save the date for the EUH4D Data Forum
On Tuesday 30 March, the European federation of Data Driven Innovation Hubs host the EUH4D Data Forum. This annual event brings together experts in the field of European Big Data, and offers a platform for raising awareness around data, sharing best practices, and receiving input on strategy and policy from the European Commission. Strengthening cross-border data innovation is and has been a key priority for the European Commission for many years. Yet, the opportunities that cross-border data innovation enables are not fully exploited, as legal, ethical, and technical challenges still create
The new dati.gov.it portal is online
The organisation that manages the Italian Open Data Portal, the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID), recently released an update to the portal that greatly improves user experience and encourages the sharing of data between public administrations. The update enables users to search based on keywords, making the search service much more effective. Several additional edits have been made to improve the design of the portal and to make open data more easily accessible. In addition, the new version of the portal also incorporates the catalogue of public administration databases. This now makes the
The Timeliness of Open Data Portals
One of the key success factors, and primary principles of an open data portal, is that the data is timely. If a portal does not provide timely data, users are less likely to trust the data, or to look for other datasets on the portal. A recent publication by the Faculty of Computing of the University of Latvia has assessed how timely data on open government data (OGD) portals is. Assessing this is typically an arduous task. However, the abundance of COVID-19 datasets that emerged over the course of 2020 has provided ample opportunity for this. Researchers were able to study the length of the
Data Talks: Check-the-Facts
On Wednesday 7 April at 11:00 CET, Jasmin Kareem and Eva van Rooijen join us for a discussion on Check-the-Facts. This collaboration project between Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and KOOP (Knowledge Centre for Government Publications) provides a platform for high school students who need access to information to choose their future studies. In order to help students make their choice, the platform combines public, open data and creates value with the perspective of the end-user in mind. During the talk we will discuss: The work of Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the Knowledge Centre for
AR19: Understanding supply and demand on the European Data Portal
The European Data Portal (EDP) recently published the 19th analytical report: “ Understanding supply and demand on the European Data Portal”. The report prepared by the University of Southampton provides a detailed analysis of the relationship between supply and demand of datasets on the EDP. The report is broken up into two parts, i.e. an initial study of dataset search through the lens of the digital traces collected via web analytics tools, and a deep-dive into supply and demand for COVID-19 data and into the impact of auxiliary content such as data stories, topical articles, and promotion
EU Open Data Days
In last week’s news, we announced the EU Open Data Days and the call for input from the audience. Now the Publications Office of the European Union invites experts to contribute to the event, which will take place from 23 to 25 November. The EU Open Data Days offer a unique opportunity to meet the open data community, share experience with experts in the field, and explore successful data-driven projects. Speak at EU DataViz – the conference on open data and visualisation Experts in the open data and/or data visualisation field are encouraged to submit a proposal sharing their ideas