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Developers, start-ups and Deutsche Bahn are working on new ideas to co-create the future of rail travel. Therefore, the German transport company regularly hosts hackathons under the umbrella of mindbox, their digital innovation platform. They provide company data such as operating stations or the route network. At data.deutschebahn.com developers can access the data at any time and re-use it to create new applications. The data is available in machine-readable and openly licensed form, in various formats, permanently and free of charge. Deutsche Bahn is one of the first German companies to

WC Finder is a service in Switzerland that allows users to find the nearest public toilet. The application provides information about each public toilet available in Zürich, including the address, opening hours, tariffs, reviews and pictures of the facilities. The app also shows if the facilities are accessible by wheelchair or not. The application uses open public data in Zürich, such as geospatial data for the location of the toilets and reviews provided by the application users. WC Finder is one of the over 650 use cases published on the data.europa.eu. If you are aware of another inspiring

Moovit is an application that allows users to view public transportation options, such as bus arrival times, maps and train schedules, around the world. The company originated in Israel and is an early pioneer of Mobility as a Service (MaaS), with the aim of simplifying urban mobility by making transportation more efficient, accessible and sustainable. Moovit collects data from different modes of transport from countries around the world like bus and train time schedules, stops and stations. The company collects up to four billion anonymous data points per day. The collected data is analysed

Discover new datasets from the municipality of Amsterdam in areas such as tourism, traffic, nature, environment, and urban development! The city of Amsterdam published datasets about, among others, locations of public toilets and wind related topics . Multiple new datasets are open and currently available on Amsterdam's own data portal data.amsterdam.nl , on data.overheid.nl , and on data.europa.eu . Data.overheid.nl is the national data portal of the Dutch government. The portal provides an overview of all available datasets provided by governmental organisations in the Netherlands. There are

On 25 September, the OpenForum Europe (OFE) presented their research Free Open Source Software for SMEs - Policy Recommendations Report for improving the policy environment for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to succeed with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). SMEs are the economic backbone of most regions in Europe. However, currently, many European SMEs are struggling to digitise their business, also due to the lack of necessary skills. Digital skills have a decisive impact on the economic development of a country and the European Commission has recognised this fact by making

On Wednesday 29 January, the Open Data Conference took place in Vilnius, Lithuania. The event was organised by the Information Society Development Committee, Start-up Lithuania, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The event targeted civil servants and attracted around 150-200 participants. The European Data Portal? (EDP) Marit Blank spoke at the event about ?ow to climb the open data maturity ladder: lessons from Europe? In her presentation, she focused on: Open data trends and developments in Europe European countries?maturity in terms of open data Recommendations on how Lithuania can