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Many people use apps to get around in their daily lives. Apps such as Google Maps, Moovit or CityMapper provide the fastest and most efficient route to a destination. However, what many users are unaware of is that behind these platforms lies a valuable...

In today's digital age, data sharing and opendatahave emerged as key pillars for innovation, transparency and economic development. A number of companies and organisations around the world are adopting these approaches to foster open access to...

The regulatory approach in the European Union has taken a major turn since the first regulation on the reuse of public sector information was promoted in 2003. Specifically, as a consequence of the European Data Strategy approved in 2020, the regulatory...

Since 24 September last year, the Regulation (EU) 2022/868 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022, on European Data Governance (Data Governance Regulation) has been applicable throughout the European Union. Since it is a Regulation...

As more of our daily lives take place online, and as the importance and value of personal data increases in our society, standards protecting the universal and fundamental right to privacy, security and privacy - backed by frameworks such as the...

The humanitarian crisis following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 was the starting point for a voluntary initiative to create maps to identify the level of damage and vulnerability by areas, and thus to coordinate emergency teams. Since then, the...

The public sector in Spain will have the duty to guarantee the openness of its data by design and by default, as well as its reuse. This is the result of the amendment of Law 37/2007 on the reuse of public sector information in application of European...

There is such a close relationship between data management, data quality management and data governance that the terms are often used interchangeably or confused. However, there are important nuances. The overall objective of data management is to...

A few months ago, the Open Data Climático, carried out by the Spanish Meteorology Agency, starred a large number of news, with headlines such as "70% of Spaniards affected by climate change", "Summers are five weeks longer than they were in the eighties...

In the policies promoted by the European Union, an intimate connection between artificial intelligence and open data has been considered. In this regard, as we highlighted, open data is essential for the proper functioning of artificial intelligence,...