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Looking for a seat in the train?
The Belgian Union of public transport users, TreinTramBus, and iRail, a working group of Open Knowledge Belgium, want to use Open Data to predict the availability of seats in Belgian trains. This tool can be used to warn commuters that their normal ride will be busy or provide commuters the opportunity to signal an overcrowded train. The information will also be made available to existing applications for Belgian train travel by an API. At the moment, this idea is simply a concept but TrainTramBus wants to release a Beta version of the project after summer 2016. In order to do so, they are
Want to improve your professional skills in Open Data?
Do you have an interest in opening, governing and using Open Data in your organisation but you feel like you want to have more professional knowledge or experience in that field? The Delft University of Technology is organising an online course on this subject which can help you get a good starting position to fulfil your ambitions with Open Data. The course will touch upon all elements of Open Data, presenting the potential of Open Data as well as the challenges that need to be faced in order to materialise its benefits. To provide the participants with tangible experience on how to work with
How can railways profit from Open Data
The most innovative solutions are often found in unexpected places or by fresh minds. To facilitate and catalyse innovation in their sector, the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) therefore launched the Open Innovation Platform to welcome all potential innovators. On this platform they want to harness the innovative strength and creativity of the crowd to develop or improve their services. The platform enables people to participate or contribute to the ÖBB's future in two ways. They can express their concerns or discuss important topics on the Customer Board to address points of interest for the
Discover the Smart City Week in Trento
It is a busy week for the Open Data communities in Trento and the Trentino region in Italy. While the city of Trento welcomes experts and enthusiasts to discuss the developments on Smart Cities during the Trento Smart City Week, the regional Open Data Portal has become accessible at a European Level. This portal, Open Data Trentino, is one of the latest catalogues to be harvested by the European Data Portal. Together with the Open Data Portal of Südtirol, both of the autonomous provinces in the North of Italy are now present at the European Data Portal. The addition of these two regional Open
Exploring Norway's Open Data
From 28 to 29 October 2016, Open Data experts and enthusiasts will come together in Oslo, Norway to participate in the annual #Hack4No hackhaton. During this event, participants will explore the Open Data released by the Norwegian government to see what can be used for innovative solutions. Participants from all background are welcome at the event to form multidisciplinary teams consisting of entrepreneurs, programmers, developers, designers, students, code kids or data owners to join the competition. For the younger generation, a ' Junior Hack' is organised to introduce children to
European research now Open by Default
Following an update of the Work Programme of Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding programme, the European Commission announced to invest €8.5 billion into research and innovation in 2017. The main novelty in this update is the introduction of Open Research Data for all new Horizon 2020 calls for proposals. It is already mandatory for scientific publications funded by Horizon 2020 to be published under an Open Access licence. The update means that also the research data generated as a result of this funding will be made openly available by default. This will boost
Exploring Open Data from Cyprus
The value of Open Data is found in making use of it, whether it is by the public sector or by the private sector. To encourage the use of this resource, Cyprus is organising the first ever Hackathon on the island from 10 to 11 September to introduce people to the potential of Open Data. The 'Crowd-hackathon' is the final and largest activity of an effort to implement and promote a coherent Open Data policy in Cyprus. For example, by centralising all the Open Government Data through the National Open Data Portal. This Portal now invites interested people to delve into Open Data and to discover
What is government property within Czech Republic?
The Czech Ministry of Finance opened up its data from the Central Registry of Office Buildings (CRAB), the registry running the Office of the Government Representation in Property Affairs. By publishing this data, the Ministry of Finance wants to take the next step in creating maximum transparency and strengthening public control. The published dataset is a rich source of information related to all the financial proceedings concerning government (real estate) properties. With this information, citizens get the opportunity to determine how much the state institutions pay for the lease of
Can Open Data improve cities?
A new initiative in the United Kingdom, the Urban Living Partnership, announced the winning projects for its first round of funding with a value of £2 million. Spread throughout the country, five projects will be supported to research how to improve the running of cities. While the projects vary in scope and angle, all of them strongly feature digital technology and Open Data in their plans. For example the City of York is using a variety of tools, including wearables, to collect Open Data on the urban environment. With the selection of these five projects, the Urban Living Partnership
Who won the open4data.at challenge?
Last spring, the Austrian government launched the open4data.at challenge 2016 "Daten suchen Ideen, Ideen suchen Daten" (Data is looking for ideas, ideas are looking for data) to identify and support innovative Open Data initiatives. The organisers received 44 submissions with Open Data ideas, projects and solutions, indicating a big enthusiasm for the challenge. To actively involve the community, this year's winners were not only selected by the 14 jury members but were also 'crowd reviewed'. The crowd consisted of 228 citizens who submitted 975 online reviews on the projects, supporting the