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Open Cycle Map
Open Cycle Map is a website with updated cycle paths across Europe. Cyclists can use the online Open Cycle Map to zoom in and out of specific locations and select cycling paths. The paths are numbered and have different colours according to whether the cycle path is a national, regional, or local cycle route. Thereby, the map also shows icons for relevant services such as bicycle shops, rental stations, toilets, cafes, drinking water fountains, shelters, hospitals, and post boxes. The open data sources that have been used to develop the Open Cycle Map, such as height data from NASA, have been
INSPIRE open data
The INSPIRE Geoportal is the central European access point, next to the European Data Portal, to data provided by EU Member States and several EFTA countries under the INSPIRE Directive. The Geoportal allows monitoring of the availability of INSPIRE data sets, discovering suitable data sets based on their descriptions (metadata) and accessing the selected data sets through their view or download services. The metadata used in the Geoportal are regularly harvested from the discovery services of EU Member States and EFTA countries. From 1 July 2020, INSPIRE spatial polygon datasets which map
AI in the financial services sector
Many businesses in the financial services use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate menial tasks, analyse data, improve customer service and comply with regulations. About half of financial services and insurance firms globally already use AI, according to a study by research group Forrester. This number is expected to grow as new uses are found and enabled for the technology. The benefits of AI are that it can increase in productivity through automation, reduce human biases and errors caused by psychological or emotional factors; and improve the quality and conciseness of management
Open data on gender and employment
According to academic research, with the use of open data on (global) employment numbers, women are hit disproportionally by the economic downturn caused by the virus in both developed and developing countries. The pandemic deepens already existing gaps between genders as the virus has hit especially childcare, service industries, part-time work and lower income jobs, all of which involve comparatively high numbers of women. When women are enabled and empowered to participate fully in the economy, their involvement produces a better environment for all citizens says Prof. Scott. She has
Outdooractive
Outdooractive uses an open data approach to support mountain tourism destinations in Europe in terms of gaining marketing outreach, tourism product development and business model innovations. The Outdooractive platform exemplifies how open data hubs (e.g. the European Data Portal) can be deployed for exploiting the potential of open data streams in tourism. Outdooractive accesses open data (e.g. data on events, tourism services, hiking trails) and distributes this information through the multiple social media and communication channels of the Outdooractive platform partners. In this way
Inspirational books on data
The European Data Portal editorial team can recommend three books to take with you and read during your (home) holiday this summer! Title: The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and their Consequences Author: Rob Kitchin Description: This book provides an overview and introduction to thinking conceptually about data, data infrastructures, data analytics, and data markets. The writer discusses technical shortcomings and the social, political, and ethical consequences of the data revolution. Thereby, an analysis of the implications of the data revolution to academic
Digicampus and data
The Digicampus is an organisation focused on developing the public sector of the future celebrating its one-year anniversary on 3 July 2020. The Digicampus includes the Dutch government, businesses, academics, and citizens to develop new innovative plans. The organisation is located in Delft close to the Delft University of Technology. The goals of Digicampus are to: Promote digital inclusion and giving citizens a voice through a digital identity Improve the interaction between businesses and citizens with the government Make the government a data partner Visitors of the Digicampus website can
EU-ISACs Conference on Cybersecurity
The EU-ISACs (Information Sharing and Analysis Centres) consortium is part of the EU Digital Single Market project. The consortium provided an update on their performance and key takeaway learnings through a digital conference. The conference has been co-organised by the European Commission ( DG Connect) and ENISA, the EU agency for Cybersecurity on 29 June 2020. The conference also marked the start of the building of an interactive community. The conference has been recorded and can now be viewed online here. Amongst the speakers, there were: Miguel Gonzalez – Head of Unit at the European
Open State Foundation
The aim of the Open State Foundation is to make open data on the government available and reusable for businesses, journalists, researchers, artists, and other government officials. The organisation focuses on accessibility to data as one of the keys to a healthy democracy. The institution operates as a watchdog for the government by promoting accountability through open data. On top of that, the Open State Foundation stimulates knowledge sharing with open data sets as well as (news) articles and opinion pieces. The open data gathered by the organisation is mainly open governmental data, such
Decision making in a data-driven world
The MIT press published a book by Michael Luca, Associate Professor at Harvard University, and Max Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor at Harvard University, on the ‘Power of Experiments’ in a data-driven world in March 2020. The authors state that no data-driven (tech) company would make any major changes to its platform without first running experiments to understand how they would influence user behaviour. In this book, the authors explain the importance of experiments for decision making in a data-driven world. Successful experiments can be both beneficial for businesses and