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Introducing the Open Data Maturity 2018 Report's Top Three Performers

The European Data Portal's (EDP's) recently published analytical report on Open Data best practices in Europe's Top Three Performers offers a practical guidebook for policy makers and portal managers… more

Introducing the Open Data Maturity 2018 Report's Top Three Performers

Next week, the European Data Portal (EDP) will publish a new analytical report on Open Data best practices in… more

Open energy data

Open energy data is one of the European Data Portal's (EDP) most popular data domains due to its implications in the energy and environmental sector. With growing awareness of topics such as climate change and renewable resources and initiatives to increase energy efficiency, governments around the world are introducing directives and targets focusing on energy data.… more

Transport data

Open transport data is one of the European Data Portal's (EDP) most frequently re-used data domains and is one of the five thematic data domains that the European Commission (EC) has identified as highly impactful. These five thematic data domains are datasets that the EC expects to have the highest… more

Increased access to open data

There is more open data available now than ever before. With the launch of the European Data Portal in 2015 and national open data portals (i.e. data.gov.ie and data.gov.be), thousands of datasets have become publicly accessible. The core aim of these open data initiatives is that… more

Introduction to B2G data sharing

Data sharing is a key enabler of growth, employment and competitiveness for Europe and the Digital Single Market envisaged by the European Union. The non-rivalrous nature of data, combined with technological innovations such as the availability of big data analysis and artificial intelligence applications, enable maximising the value of… more

Open Data Day 2019

This year the international open data community celebrated the Open Data Day again.

Open Data Day is an international annual event where data enthusiasts gather to connect and build new solutions to complex social issues by using open data. The event aims to not only show the benefits of open data (such as an increase in efficiency,… more

"Data is the new oil" is a quote for example from Neelie Kroes, former Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich or the… more

Open Data Maturity report 2018

On 19 November 2018, the European Data Portal published their fourth annual report "Open Data Maturity in Europe 2018: New horizons for Open Data driven transformation". The report measures the state-of-play of open data in Europe and shares the progress European countries made with their open data activities against… more

Insights into a high value data domain

Health is defined by the World Health Organisation as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being that goes beyond the absence of disease or infirmity. A person's health is dependent on variables such as their surrounding environment, sleeping pattern, diet, work-life balance and level of physical activity. By neglecting to take care of one's health through lack… more