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Discover the book Good Data
On January 24 2019, the book Good Data was unveiled in Amsterdam by the Institute of Network Cultures and DATACTIVE. Good Data focuses on the pathways to ethical data practices and has more than 20 chapters that explore the themes: "Good Data Manifestos and Practices" "Good Data and Justice" "Good Data as Open and Shared Data" "Good Data Activism and Research" "Good Data and Smart Cities and Homes" One of the book's chapters under the theme "Good Data as Open and Shared Data" is: "Making Data Public? The Open Data Index as Participatory Device". The chapter builds on ongoing research and
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Realo: A Belgian website showing available properties
Realo is a Belgian website that shows real estate properties and provides demographic information about the different places in Belgium - such as Brussels, Gent, Antwerp and Namur - through a search engine. This search engine enables users to find properties to buy and rent within Belgium and the different properties that are available near their current location. The website does this by collecting statistical demographical information per neighbourhood, as well as data provided by various agencies from different cities. In addition, the website provides a platform for users to sell their
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The European Data Portal (EDP) speaks in Kyiv
On 5 and 6 March, Ukraine hosted the ' Regional Seminar for integrating environmental information in national E-Governance/Open data frameworks and platforms' in Kyiv. The event was organised by the European Environment Agency in the context of the European external action initiatives in the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood. The conference hosted e-Government and open data decision-makers from the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The conference focused on open data publication and re-use in the environmental field and the
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Save the date: ESS Data Visualisation Milan 2019
Save the date and join the European Statistical System (ESS) Data Visualisation event that will take place on 6 and 7 May in Milan, Italy. The ESS is the partnership between the EU's statistical authority ( Eurostat), the national statistical institutes ( NSIs) and other national authorities responsible in each Member State for the development, production and dissemination of statistics. In addition, the ESS acts as a network to harmonise statistics in close cooperation with the national statistical authorities. This year, Eurostat is organising a one and a half day workshop in Milan at the
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Outcome of the VisHack II hackathon
On 15 and 16 February 2019, The North Sea Foundation organised VisHack II - a hackathon that focused on fishing waste with the theme 'een afvalvrije visserij' (a waste-free fishery). The hackathon was held in the Dutch city Urk and had more than thirty participants that were committed to finding solutions for a cleaner sea. There were four multidisciplinary teams that worked together on four different challenges. The teams presented their results on 16 February in the afternoon and team DataQuest won 200 euros to develop their idea for waste registration. The team's idea is to develop a QR
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SocialBoost: A Ukrainian platform to solve national challenges
SocialBoost is a Ukrainian platform that connects start-up companies, people with technological expertise and government bodies to solve national challenges and engage in socially meaningful IT-projects. The platform organises hackathons to tackle socially complex issues and supports projects focusing on socio-economic development. SocialBoost uses different types of open data for the various hackathons and projects. For example, open data on infrastructure is used to develop a mobile application that tracks damages of infrastructure such as potholes. In addition, SocialBoost promotes open
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Save the date: Dutch data portal users meeting on 12 April
On Friday 12 April 2019, the Dutch data portal data.overheid.nl will be organising a meeting for their portal users in The Hague, Netherlands in Dutch. The meeting is tailored for data owners, data re-users and people who are professionally or generally interested in (open) government data. Participants are invited to come at 12:30 for a general walk-in and lunch before the plenary meetings and workshops begin. Visitors can choose from a variety of workshops scheduled, for example: The "Impact open data" from the data.overheid.nl team. "Open data application: Open State Information" by Richard
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The Open Data Inventory (ODIN) 2018/19 report
The Open Data Watch (ODW) is an organisation that aims to promote open data usage in policy-making and implementation to eradicate poverty, fight inequality and promote inclusive and sustainable growth. The organisation seeks to increase data's impact on society by improving statistical capacity and encouraging strong political leadership for data. One method of doing this is with their annual report, the Open Data Inventory (ODIN) report. The ODIN 2018/19 report assesses the openness of official statistics in order to identify gaps in data, promote open data policies, improve access and
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Geographical data in Spain
Geographical data, or geodata, is the second data category most re-used and consulted by companies in the member states of the European Union, behind statistical data. Geodata is information that implicitly or explicitly refers to a location relative to the earths surface and allows us to better understand our environment, especially in combination with socio-cultural, economic or environmental data. Geodata has great re-use potential because it can be integrated into different applications to enrich their services by providing more information. Countries around the world have recognised the
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Looking back on the open environment data event in Ireland
On 29 April 2019, the third session of the Open Data Impact Series took place in Dublin, Ireland. The topic of this session was 'how open data can improve the environment' and was organised by Derilinx - a provider of linked and open data solutions - in collaboration with the Open Data Unit of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Open Data Impact Series promotes awareness, adoption and use of open data in different sectors, and supports the publication of high-quality open data. During the session, experts in the environmental field from private sector, academia, and government