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Results from Italian Open Data research published
Recently, the results of an Italian research on the use of Open Data by companies were published. The research, called '200 Italian Open Data' is the first systematic study on Italian companies that use Open Data in their activities to generate products and services and create social and economic value. The project is developed by Govlab - New York University in collaboration with the Bruno Kessler Foundation, a research institute based in Trento. The project aimed to provide a basis for evaluating the impact of Open Data in Italy. It not only wanted to make a 'photograph' of the current state
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Croatian public servants attend workshop on reusing Open Data
On 19 October, Croatian public servants will be trained on how to enable reuse of Open Data and public information. The programme is offered by the Information Officer of the Government and the Ministry of Administration, carried out by the State School of Public Administration ( DSJU). The training session is meant to supplement the implementation of the Act on the Right of Access to Information, and promote the reuse of information and disclose Open Data, specifically. This enables civil servants to assist interested citizens who would like to reuse public sector information in order to gain
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Romania publishes company and NGO registries
The national Open Data portal of Romania, data.gov.ro, has published two updated registries related to Romanian business entities and NGOs. The National Trade Register Office released multiple data overviews of all companies registered in the national Trade Registry. Furthermore, the Ministry of Justice of Romania has published a series of datasets on the non-governmental organisations as part of the National NGO Register. Disseminating lists of companies and NGOs is considered to be important for enabling market orientations and cooperation, as well as consolidating legal certainty. Looking
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Top 3 datasets from the European Data Portal and the USA Open Data Portal
The European Data Portal and the United States Government's Open Data portal are two major gateways to public sector information. Combined, the European Data Portal and its American version Data.gov harvest more than an impressive million datasets. Which datasets were most popular in the beginning of 2018? Starting with the top three datasets from Data.gov, users seem to be keen on reference datasets, datasets capturing generic information most valuable when linked to other types of data: Demographic Statistics By Zip Code (City of New York) ZIP Code Data (Federal Department of the Treasury) U
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Relaunch: Open Data Goldbook for Data Managers and Data Holders
How to build an Open Data strategy? How to implement an Open Data initiative? What is needed to put in place an Open Data lifecycle? How to ensure and monitor Open Data success? The European Data Portal has updated its Open Data Goldbook for Data Managers and Data Holders to answer all of these questions. The third and latest edition of the Open Data Goldbook encompasses practical guidelines to help data managers and data holders from public organisations to implement and improve a successful Open Data strategy. It offers useful approaches and frameworks, supported by various best practices
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Open Data in Ukraine
Ukraine noticeably improved its Open Data position when looking at the Global Open Data Index. For the first time since the measurement started in 2013, the country is now among the 50 most open nations, ranked 31st. One of the tangible improvements is found on the national Open Data portal data.gov.ua. The portal now offers over 30,000 datasets. Moreover, the country released the registration data of Ukrainian companies and court register data, via its Opendatabot service. Based on the considerable progress from last year, the question arises: what will the upcoming years bring? As part of
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Dynamic Open Data event unites Slovenian and Serbian best practices
The Centre for European Perspective (CEP) is organising the international conference "Experience Exchange in Opening of Public Sector Data", which will take place on 28 February 2018 in Belgrade, Serbia. To present best practices from both countries, a dynamic conference is envisaged, to help fuel the Official Development Cooperation between the Republic of Slovenia and Republic of Serbia. The European Union has set a goal to increase the exchange of information and knowledge, to open up public data and facilitate cooperation among public bodies while creating and delivering public services
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Expressing Europe's untold data stories
The 15 official partners of the European Data Journalism Network (EDJN) will offer their data stories in more languages. Data driven news stories produced by members of the European Data Journalism Network are now translated into English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish and will be made available for free to all partner and non-partner news organisations. Participating news organisations of the EDJN remain responsible for selecting datasets, running their own analyses and crafting relevant data journalism stories. Partner organisation VoxEurop will translate the data stories
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Openly welcoming refugees
North Rhine-Westphalia, one of Germany's Federal states, created an application to welcome refugees. Both the desktop and mobile versions combine general and basic information from the state's authority that would help refugees settle in more easily. In the true spirit of "Germany Says Welcome", the app is designed as an open-source product and is therefore made available to the public. North Rhine-Westphalia has been the first state authority to use the source code. Other states, cities and towns are free to use the code to develop their own refugee apps. Among other functionalities, the app
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SEMIC 2018
The 8th edition of SEMIC, the annual semantic interoperability conference, will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 14 June 2018. The event, organised by the ISA 2 Programme of the European Commission in collaboration with the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, will bring together policy makers, IT practitioners and researchers interested in topics related to semantic interoperability for public administration. This year, the theme of the conference will be "Linked Digital Public Administrations". Nowadays, public administrations are more and more exchanging data with each other and with