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Nazar City Bot
Nazar City Bot is a Ukrainian start-up, created in 2018, that uses governmental data to create open data-based services for local government agencies. The aim of the organisation is to address a common problem faced by all cities across Ukraine, which is that municipal call centres get overloaded with a flood of questions relating to the housing and utility infrastructure of their city. By creating open data-based services, such as their website, enable local residents to receive automatic notices about scheduled or emergency service disruptions at a specific address and keep track of repairs
JournalismAI
On Wednesday 11 November 2020, the European Data Portal (EDP) and Support Centre for Data Sharing (SCDS) will host a Data Talk session on JournalismAI and will be joined by Mattia Peretti, the Project Manager of JournalismAI, to learn more about the initiative. Register and join us to learn more about their community research reports, training materials, best practices, and how they innovate sharing. JournalismAI is a global initiative that is run by Polis – the journalism think-tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – and supported by the Google News Initiative
European Data Portal at the European Week of Regions and Cities 2020
The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is an annual event where experts, academics and officials from regions and cities across Europe meet and exchange best practices and information on regional and urban development. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event has been extended to take place from 5 to 22 October and will be fully digital with no physical audience. The event offers more than 500 digital working sessions over three consecutive weeks that cover various topics along the three thematic priorities Green Europe; Cohesion and Cooperation; and Empowering
How to benefit from open data
Save the date and join the European Data Portal (EDP) and Support Centre for Data Sharing’s (SCDS) next Data Talks, “ How to profit from open data”, on Wednesday 30 September at 13:00 CET. The EDP and SCDS host Data Talk sessions every fortnight on topics related to open data and data sharing, free of charge. Everyone is welcome to join these discussions to learn more from the speakers and to share their experiences. The session on “ How to profit from open data” elaborates on an EDP Country Insights blog post that is similarly named. In the session, the team will be joined by Kateryna
ePaństwo Foundation
The ePaństwo Foundation is a Polish organisation that was founded in 2010 and provides support to cities, communities, counties and public institutions that want to make their data publicly available for citizens. They are, for example, engaged in supporting smart cities. The foundation aims to develop openness and transparency by taking various types of public data and presenting them to society free of charge by using new technologies. The ePaństwo Foundation moves a huge part of public open data from the “deep web” and makes them visible and accessible in the Internet in new ways by using
COVID-19 open data quality in research papers
Openly available data (researched and published by Airfinity) show that as of June 2020, 23,000 papers on COVID-19 have been published, of which 18,300 were printed by academic journals and 4,700 were on preprint servers that post papers online without peer review. Under normal conditions, the time between a paper being submitted and its publication is three to four months. However, the publication speed of several COVID-19 research papers was approximately two to three weeks. According to Airfinity, more observational studies have been published on COVID-19 than studies on randomised clinical
NIH Releases COVID-19 Data to the Public Cloud
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made genomic data about COVID-19 publicly accessible in the cloud. This published dataset can help researchers understand the COVID-19 virus through insights into the differences in genetic sequencing among infected patients. Thus, with this intelligence researchers can determine how quickly the virus is evolving and how patients react to it. The Coronavirus Genome Sequence Dataset is created by the National Center for Biotechnology Information and consists of researcher-submitted data, including normalised Sequence Read Archive (SRA) file formats
Data Talks: Asedie
The European Data Portal (EDP) team together with the Support Centre for Data Sharing (SCDS) team co-organise a series of Data Talks, held every fortnight on topics related to open data and data sharing. Everyone can join these discussions, free of charge. On Wednesday 16 September at 13:00 CET, Data Talks will host Asedie – a non-profit industry association that advocates the release of open data in Spain. We will be joined by Casey Abernethy from Asedie and will discuss: What Asedie is and how it was formed; What the organisation’s goals are; Who their members and involved stakeholders are
Tink
Tink was founded in 2012 in Sweden and has developed into a Financial Services Authority (FSA)-regulated partner to big banks, fintech unicorns (privately held financial tech company valued more than one billion) and start-ups. Tink has built a European open banking platform to create value out of financial data. They offer clients the tools to build the innovative financial services across Europe. Some project examples are the ABN AMRO Grip application, SEB Banking application, CGD’s DABOX, BNP Paribas Fortis, Avanzas onboarding, and the SBAB’s mortgagematch. The use of open banking data taps
World from Space
World from Space is a start-up company from Brno, Czech Republic, that uses (open) satellite data (focused on Copernicus data) to inform users and enable them to see the ‘bigger picture’ of a (smart) city or village ecosystem. Their areas of interest are on drought and vegetation monitoring to create smart cities and smart villages and to work towards realising smart agriculture. More specifically, they use technologies to monitor aspects, such as the volume and current state or urban vegetation and quantify the change over time to inform stakeholders (i.e. municipalities and the private