How do citizens contribute to the publication and re-use of open data?
 

Whether consciously by submitting an entry in Wikidata or
unconsciously by validating a ticket on a means of public transport,
citizens´ generate enormous amounts of data every day. Yet, this
citizen-generated data is not widely available on data.europa.eu or
any other open data portals, which often limit themselves to
government-generated data.

On 21 April 2022, the data.europa academy hosted the webinar
“Citizen-generated data on data.europe.eu
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/opportunities-and-challenges-citizen-generated-data]”
to explore this topic further. The webinar followed up on the recently
published “Analytical report of Opportunities and Challenges
Associated to the Inclusion of Citizen-generated Data in
data.europa.eu
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/report/data.europa.eu_Report_Citizen-generateddataondata_europa_eu.pdf]”.


The webinar´s presenter and co-author to the report, Oscar Corcho,
guided participants through the main insights of the report, which
identified datasets containing citizen-generated data and categorised
them according to a unified set of dimensions. The report was based
both on desk research and a field analysis of open data portals across
Europe.

The conclusions and recommendations of the research, discussed at the
end of the webinar, will represent the starting point for two
additional reports  on sources of citizen-generated data and a
possible governance model, both to be published in the coming months. 

A full version of the webinar is available on YouTube
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FHaerYTFmc]. More information about
the webinar, including the slides of the session, can be found in the
dedicated course on the data.europa academy
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/opportunities-and-challenges-citizen-generated-data].

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Publication Date/Time
2022-05-04T10:00:00+00:00
Watch the recording of our webinar on citizen-generated data