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Workshop on the Data Economy during the Digital Assembly 2017
The Digital Assembly 2017 will take place on 15 and 16 June in Valletta, Malta. The Digital Assembly is an opportunity for stakeholders to debate, take stock and look ahead at how Europe and its partners around the world are preparing for this digital transformation. The event starts at noon on 15 June. After a networking lunch, the event will kick off with a high-level opening ceremony and an international panel discussion. On Friday 16 June, there will be four thematic working sessions on key priorities. One of these priorities is the data economy, as data is considered to be the fuel of the
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Dutch Data Science Week
From 6 to 9 June, the Dutch Data Science Week will take place at several locations in the Netherlands. Data professionals are invited to solve different cases relevant to society by the use of (open) data and analytics. The week consists of several initiatives, ranging from conferences to trainings, workshops, dinners and meet-ups. The City of Amsterdam will provide a case on how data can help the city increase the quality of life in the city. It gets busier every day in Amsterdam. In 2015, almost 140 million people visited the capital city of the Netherlands. This results in challenges, for
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Open Data hackathon Deutsche Bahn
The German railway company Deutsche Bahn (the Federal Republic of Germany being its single shareholder) is an active player in the German Open Data field. On their own Open Data portal, DB publishes a growing stock of data on infrastructure and mobility. The data is available for re-use, in a machine-readable and openly licensed form, in different formats, permanently and free of charge. One of the goals of Deutsche Bahn is to open even more data. Therefore, they are organising a Hackathon to encourage the Open Data community to collaborate with them to reach that goal. The Hackathon takes
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Open Data for the tourism industry
From 5 to 7 May, the Open Tourism Days were held in Copenhagen, Denmark. This three-day hackathon was fully dedicated to innovation, tourism and Open Data, and was organised by Open Data Denmark and Wonderful Copenhagen. The participants were full of ideas on how Open Data can be used to solve the challenges of the tourism industry. Nine teams participated in the hackathon. The winning concept, 'Ride Copenhagen', offers bicycle rides that suit the weather and individuals' interests. Another concept that stood out was "Enligthened Aalborg", which is a system for weather information, where light
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Switzerland's leading Open Data conference Opendata.ch/2017 to take place in Luzern
On Tuesday 27 June, Opendata.ch/2017 will take place in Luzern, Switzerland. This is Switzerland's leading conference convened around the subject of Open Data, hosted by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and its initiative Data Worlds and Opendata.ch. During this conference, the national conversation will be shaped among business executives, politicians, public officials, researchers and Open Data enthusiasts through a very diverse and dynamic program that includes subjects such as Open Smart Cities, Open Tourism & Transport Data, Open Science, Open Food Data & Data
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Lessons from the Open Data for Open Cities event in Wageningen
On 9 May 2017, the Open Data for Open Cities conference took place at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. This conference was the 5th Participatory Workshop of InitiativeCityData 3.0 related to Open Data re-use and understanding the real impact of available Open Data in cities and was part of the broader 4-day annual international conference on Geographic Information Science. The European Data Portal provided a keynote presentation focusing on the barriers and benefits in working with Open Data. According to the EDP Barriers report which was published in February 2017, Open Data
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Irish Government's Open Data Initiative wins eGovernment award
On 26 May, the Irish eGovernment Awards and Summit 2017 took place in Dublin. The European Data Portal provided a presentation during this event on where Ireland stands with regards to Open Data. The awards are Ireland's most sought-after accolade in Irish eGovernment, honouring the leaders driving digital services, communication and democracy online. The awards, now in their 16th year, recognise advances made in the use of digital technology by the public sector in Ireland. Following a rigorous adjudication process by the judges, the winners were announced at the Awards ceremony on 26 May at
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New Open Data Act in Germany
The German Bundestag adopted the Federal Open Data Act on 18 May 2017. The new Act initiates cultural change in the administrations and obliges federal authorities to publish unprocessed data in the future. Spokesman Thomas Jarzombek, member of the German Parliament (Bundestag) for CDU and part of the "Digitale Agenda" emphasised that the Open Data Act is a key milestone: "we are implementing one of the central digital-policy goals of the coalition agreement. More and more data related to human activities are also digitally recorded by the administration, such as the traffic on motorways or
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The economic impact of opening up geodata
In 2012, the Danish government set up the 'Basic Data' programme as part of their digitisation strategy. As a result, a large part of the data held by the Danish Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency was made available for re-use. A new study shows that the value of free geographic basic data has doubled since their release in 2013, with substantial gains for society. The study examined the economic effects of the opening up of geospatial datasets (referred to as open geodata) realised in the period 2013-2016. Open geodata contribute to both more efficiency in public administrations and
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Digitisation of Helsinki's citizen services
The Finnish city of Helsinki has just presented its new strategy for the digitisation of citizen services. Open Data is at the core of this new strategy. As explained by Ville Meloni, Manager of the Digital Helsinki Programme, Helsinki seeks to create a better everyday life for people, putting the user at the centre of development. Helsinki's digitalisation programme proceeds on the philosophy "city as a platform" to promote new digital services that increase liveability and the city's competitiveness. The programme seeks to base development on Open Data and open-source code. Among its