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Spare time during the holidays
You could not make it to the webinar "Open Data, a popular buzzword or an essential resource?" but don't want to miss out on what was discussed? Watch the recorded video! On 30 November, the first of a series of webinars organised by the European Data Portal took place. In this webinar, the team behind the European Data Portal gave a general presentation on Open Data and the portal. Within the 40 minutes webinar, Wendy Carrara gives a clear overview of the concept of Open Data: what it is, why it matters and how it can be used. Following this, Wander Engbers presents the main functionalities
A mega Open Data Portal in Poland?
During the developers' conference Code Europe, the Polish government announced to give a complete update to their Open Data websites. According to Grzegorz Zajaczkowski, a counselor in Political Cabinet of the Minister of Digitization, the current web pages of the ministries will be replaced by one 'megaportal' bringing together all of the Open Data in Poland. In addition to the Open Data published by the Polish government, the portal will also provide information and eGovernment services such as electronic forms or additional information. The idea to bring together Open Data with more general
Open Data for a participatory EU policy
Over the last weeks, during three productive encounters, Italian students have explored, analysed and communicated on several EU policies in the Italian context. By doing so, the students made themselves familiar with EU policies and shared their views with those making the policies. In all of these encounters, Open Data played a pivotal role in sharing knowledge and insights from a European level to a national one. The first encounter between the Italian students and European policy makers took place last November in Brussels. During a meeting on the European Cohesion Policy, a team of
Hauts-de-Seine opens up
The French department Hauts-de-Seine has chosen the adoption of Open Data as a way to redefine the relationship between the administration and its citizens. The departmental council has adopted Open Data not only to commit itself to working open and transparently, but also with three other objectives in mind. In a short article, the council tells what they hope to create with their policies. All of the Open Data published by the department is made available via the Open Data Hauts-de-Seine portal. With this information, the administration is foreseeing to fuel technical and organisational
Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World
Research and innovation are a key component for numerous thematic policies of the European Commission. For example, it is central to the Digital Single Market as it permits industry to benefit from new digital technologies while also creating new jobs and economic growth. At the same time, a flourishing and innovative research community in Europe is a necessity to fulfil the EU's ambitions on green energy and climate change reduction. In order to ensure that Europe's research community continues to be at the frontier of innovation and be able to fulfil these needs, the European Commission has
Digital Government Conference in Athens
In Greece, reaping the potential of the knowledge and digital economy is at the top of the strategic targets of the government as shown by the establishment of the Ministry of Digital Policy. Simultaneously, comparable policy ambitions are formulated at the international and European level. To explore both policy developments and their possible synergies, the Digital Government Conference has been organised; it will take place on 13 December in Athens. During the conference policy makers and senior executives will come together to learn about and discuss both developments to see how the public
Germany to develop own DCAT-AP
Since 2013, the German IT Planning Council has been working on the development of a single metadata structure for Open Government Data. Following an extensive consultation and exploration period since, on 21 November the steering group of GovData made its final decision on which standard to implement. Taking into account the national and European developments in this field, the group decided that the German standard would follow the DCAT-AP protocol. By developing a DCAT-AP compliant derivation for the German government, this standard can both facilitate the exchange within Germany and within
How is it going with the Connecting Europe Facility programme?
The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) is a European instrument which is aimed at supporting the development of high-performing, sustainable and efficiently interconnected trans-European networks in three fields, Transport, Energy and Telecom. With investments into, for example, automated translation or the development of cross-border Open Data projects, the programme is also vital for the European Digital Single Market and exchange of data. The CEF programme runs from 2014 to 2020 and to ensure its operations are still in line with its objectives, a mid-term evaluation is currently being
Dutch municipalities are opening up
As shown in the Open Data Maturity in Europe 2016 report, more and more countries are moving forward in their Open Data journey. Countries are adding more features to their Open Data portals, and are developing solid policies to back these portals. Also on city-level Open Data initiatives are deployed (for instance in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna), as shown in a report on Open Data and cities. But today, not only countries and major cities are embracing Open Data, also smaller cities and municipalities are opening up their data to the public
Open Belgium 2017
On 6 March 2017, the Open Belgium 2017 event will take place in Brussels. With the slogan 'Let's make Belgian knowledge open, usable, used, useful', stakeholders from the industry, the research community, the government and citizens will gather to discuss the latest developments regarding Open Knowledge and Open Data. The event is organised by Open Knowledge Belgium. Open Belgium is an annual conference gathering stakeholders concerning Open Knowledge. This year's theme is "Open Cities, Smart Data", marking the different ways Open Knowledge and Open Data can contribute to smart urban