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What can Open Data do for Prague
Cities can become much more friendly and better places when the private sector, government and active citizens come together to address and face new challenges. One of the means to do so is by joining forces around Open Data to explore what is possible. With this idea in mind, the Otakar Motejl Fund together with Node5, reSITE and StartupYard are organising a new edition of the hackathon Prague Hacks. During this event, software developers, idea makers, data analysts and urban planners come together to explore Prague's Open Data and how it can provide tools to address new challenges. The goal
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What are your plans for the autumn holiday?
By analysing Open Data, there are treasures of information which can be found on a number of subjects. From how many children are born in 2015 with a name no other baby was given that year to where the most Instagram photos are made. When you have the right set of skills, these questions can be answered using freely available information. The German City of Moers is a strong advocate of releasing Open Data for citizens and businesses to go explore. To stimulate this, they not only provide Open Data through their portal but also by organising courses, for example by introducing people to Open
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Hacking data science in Tartu, Estonia
From 21 to 23 October, Garage 48, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Information System Authority of Estonia and the Institute of Computer science of the University of Tartu are organising a hackathon on data science. During this event which will take place in Tartu, participants will get together to explore and develop applications and ideas based on Open and Big Data. Over the past few decades, both public and private sector organisations have gathered a great amount of data. Using and analysing this data offers opportunities to generate new knowledge or new applications
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Lisbon Opens up
A new initiative was launched in Lisbon, in which nine Portuguese start-ups were provided exclusive access to Open Data for the developments of mobile applications. What is special about this initiative is that the data provided to the start-ups is not merely Open Data from the public sector but also includes data from other, private entities. With this collaboration, the start-ups are granted access to information which is normally not available as open data, for them to develop innovative applications. The information provided to them ranges from geospatial data such as maps, demographic
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Geospatial Open Data for Europe's environment
From 26 to 30 September, Barcelona welcomes the annual INSPIRE conference. During this conference stakeholders from government, academia and industry gather to hear about and discuss the latest developments in the field of the INSPIRE Directive. This Directive, standing for 'Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community', concerns the development of an EU infrastructure specifically for geospatial data. Using this overarching infrastructure, Europe's public sector organisations share their spatial information and provide better access to spatial information across Europe
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A chatbot to ask the municipality
On 3 September, the Open Data Portal of the German Region North Rhine-Westphalia organised their second hackathon to explore what can be done with their data. This year's theme was "UpDATA your life" and set out the challenge to find means how Open Data can be used to make life easier in North Rhine-Westphalia. Over 80 programmers, developers and other Open Data enthusiasts took on this challenge and worked during the whole day to find and explore innovative applications using the available data. At the end of the day, ideas were gathered and presented after which an election was held to
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Open Data for Italian Public Administrations
Following several legislative developments and the transposition of the European Directive on Public Sector Information, the Italian government has embraced the principle of Open Data by default. To ensure the principle is adopted efficiently by all public administrations with interoperable specifications, the government updated the Guidelines for the Development of the Public Information Heritage 2016. In this document, the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) provides advice and sets standards to help public administrations in handling their data. To ensure these new guidelines fit the need of
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The ePSI platform is no more, the content lives on
The website of the ePSI community will go offline shortly. In order to keep the valuable content such as the Scoreboard and the hundreds of blogs written by PSI experts, the European Data Portal now hosts these documents in its library. The scoreboard and the blogs are available n the 'Other reports' section, which can be found at the Library page. For the blogs a dedicated page is developed where you can easily look for blogs concerning your subject.
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Data For London
With a vision of becoming the most dynamic and productive City Data Market in the world, London released its City Data Strategy. This detailed document is a good example how to promote Open Data, for both business and citizens. In the strategy they put forward the three most important things that need to happen: Making data a central element in the policies of the City Government; Securing a reliable supply of valuable data; Building greater public awareness and understanding how data can drive innovation. Read the full strategy on our library.
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Let's talk Open Source
From 21 to 22 September the eighth edition of the annual OW2Con will take place in Paris. During this conference, organised by the independent and global Open Source Community OW2, various speakers will address the delivery challenge of Open Source software. By taking into account the business perspective in which code is just a fraction of the software value chain, the community wants to further develop the business ecosystem of Open Source code. The event will be structured around the theme "Code to Product: Addressing the delivery challenge of open source software". With the delivery