Discover the data.europa academy: Fourth course, ‘Creating your
business with open data’
The fourth course of the restructured data.europa.eu academy
[https://data.europa.eu/en/news-events/news/dataeuropa-academy-discover-our-11-open-data-courses],
titled ‘Creating your business with open data
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/creating-your-business-open-data]’
explains the ways in which data can strengthen your business. Through
webinars, e-learning and reading materials you will learn how to use
open data to create a new product or service or develop it and take it
to the next level. 

The course consists of nine lessons, starting with ‘What is the
value of data? [https://data.europa.eu/en/what-value-open-data]’.
This lesson explores how open data creates value for governments,
businesses and individuals. Following that, the lesson ‘How useful
is my data?
[https://data.europa.eu/elearning/en/module10/#/id/co-01]’ provides
information and tools to help you determine if you can use and apply
your open data sets and in what domain and type of content. 

To unlock the full potential of this data, an open data friendly
culture is vital. This will be explained in the lesson ‘Open data as
a catalyst of innovation
[https://data.europa.eu/en/open-data-catalyst-innovation]’, which
also covers importance of change management. A deep dive into change
management will be given in the lesson ‘Managing change in open data
[https://data.europa.eu/elearning/en/module15/#/id/co-01]’. 

The fifth lesson ‘Open data licensing
[https://data.europa.eu/en/open-data-licensing]’ introduces
different open data licenses and explains how to build a
machine-readable open data license using the data.europa.eu licensing
tool. Before opening your data, it is important to consider data
protection. Therefore, the sixth lesson ‘Introduction to data
protection [https://data.europa.eu/en/introduction-data-protection]’
delves deeper into open data and privacy, data governance and the
current and upcoming legislation. The lesson ‘Discovering open data
from public institutions’
[https://data.europa.eu/en/discovering-open-data-public-institutions-across-europe]
gives an overview of examples of datasets available from public
institutions across Europe.

The eighth lesson ‘Real-time data
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/creating-your-business-open-data]’
specifically focuses on real-time data, interoperability standards and
the ways in which they affect the publication and use of data. This
type of data has a major impact and value for society. To conclude,
the ninth lesson  ‘Unlocking the benefits of open data with
data.europa.eu
[https://data.europa.eu/en/unlocking-benefits-open-data-dataeuropaeu]’
helps you understand how to use data.europa.eu
[https://data.europa.eu/en] effectively.

By the end of this data.europa academy
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy] course, you will be able to create
or update a product or service using open data and take your business
to the next level. 

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Publication Date/Time
2023-06-07T08:00:00+00:00
Learn what is covered in the fourth course of the data.europa academy
on creating value by using open data for the development of a new
product or service