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Data Governance in a Digitally Transformed Europe
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's service for science and knowledge that aims to provide independent scientific advice and support to EU policy. DigiTranScope - Digital Transformation and Governance of Human Society - is a community within the JRC, which aims to build a network of experts that create, collect and curate a deep understanding of digital transformation. On 24-25 October 2018, DigiTranScope hosted their 2 nd DigiTranScope workshop to discuss data governance in a digitally transformed Europe. The workshop addressed issues such as the growing demand for
National Library of Luxembourg releases high-quality datasets
In 2018, the National Library of Luxembourg (BnL) published a wide variety of high-quality datasets with cleared copyright after the release of the Open Data strategy of the Luxembourgish Government. For example, the BnL has provided access to several Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), digitalised newspapers and open source software. These new datasets will benefit professionals such as data scientists, historians, linguists, researchers and developers and will bring new collaborations that go beyond the BnL community. Discover and access the newly provided open datasets, APIs and
Study shows uptake of open data in the public and private sectors
With increasing awareness of the different benefits that users can gain from exploiting open data, we can witness that open data usage has expanded and topics like data standardisation, interoperability and sharing methods are gaining more traction. The Data Foundation and Grant Thornton's Public Sector practice conducted a study to observe and show how companies and government bodies are increasing their focus on data standardisation and data sharing. The study found out that nearly 84% of respondents reported progress on their data standardisation in the past year and approximately 85% of
Save the Date: EU Datathon 2019
Save the date and join the EU Datathon 2019 on 13 June 2019 in Brussels, Belgium! The Publications Office of the European Union is organising the third edition of the EU Datathon competition in partnership with the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This year again the EDP is happy to support the EU Datathon and be a jury member to award the most promising proposals. The EU Datathon 2019 aims to stimulate the use and re-use of open data and to support competitors in showcasing their data skills and innovative ideas. Participants are invited to develop apps and
Alim'confiance: a French service using sanitation and geo-data
Alim'confiance is a French service that enables users to find information on sanitation levels in the food chains in France. The application shows four levels of hygiene: excellent, satisfactory, needs improvement and needs urgent attention. This classification is based on information in sanitation inspection reports on the hygiene level of different restaurants. Moreover, Alim'confiance provides information on the level of sanitary control during the food production and transportation period and in different slaughterhouses within France. These findings are added onto the service after every
Open public transport and mobility data in Spain
Open data plays a vital role in helping public authorities manage basic services, such as public transportation. This is because data provides policymakers with unique insights, such as how to reduce transportation costs and improve public transportation services to help commuters travel efficiently and sustainably from point a to b. Due to open data potential benefits and impact, countries are publishing datasets such as transport and mobility data to support public authorities in managing their basic services. One example of a country embracing open transport and mobility data is Spain. In
Open Data Maturity in Europe 2018
Last Monday, the European Data Portal released their fourth annual report: the " 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 highlights how open data can be used as a strategic asset to enable successful transformation at a country level. It also provides specific recommendations on how a country can improve their usage of open data to make an impact, share knowledge and build and maintain a data ecosystem. Countries were assessed in four dimensions - policy, portal, impact and quality -
Open Mobility as a Service in Helsinki
The Helsinki Regional Transport Authority (HSL) is a public body that maintains public transport in Helsinki. HSL is keen to support the creation of innovative transport services by lowering barriers to accessing data. To achieve this, HSL is sharing their data with platforms such as digitransit and Reittiopas. These platforms use HSL's Open Data, open API's and open source codes to e.g. create a journey planner for customers and provides them with information on the best available route. This information can be re-used by other stakeholders. HSL also has its own mobile application. This
Outcome of the User meeting dates.overheid.nl
On 23 November the Dutch government's data portal hosted the afternoon event " User meeting dates-overheid.nl" in The Hague. The event addressed data owners, data re-users and people interested in (open) government data from different industries, government bodies and academia. The event was opened by Hayo Schreijer and Jelle Verburg from the Dutch government's Data portal. In their opening address, they discussed the European Data Portal's recently published Open Data Maturity in Europe Report 2018 and the Netherland's State-of-Play on Open Data in 2018. They showcased best practices of other
Open Data in Smart Prague
Operátor ICT is a company that integrates Open Data into different public sector services in Prague and promotes Open Data re-use to make the city smarter by increasing awareness on its potential impact on society and industry. An example of how the company contributes to making Prague smarter with Open Data is Cisco Kinetic for Cities - a platform that assists users in building a 'smart city framework'. The platform provides data on the environment, pollution, parking spaces, street lights, Wi-Fi locations and USB charging points. Through this platform, users also have access to an analysis