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Transparency: talking about the Basque case at a EU seminar
The case of Open Data Euskadi was presented yesterday at a EU seminar held in Brussels: Improving Transparency in Government Decision Making – what targets could be defined. Alberto Ortiz de Zarate, an official from the Basque Government, presented our case with these slides and the text alongside it. As Ortiz de Zarate put it [...]
Basque Government budget visualizations
The Basque Government has published this week a visualization website that summarizes and details the public budgets and expenditures of the Basque autonomous administration. Using data from Open Data Euskadi, this web app (also visible in smartphones and tablets as it has responsive design) has been called Aurrekontuak (Budgets, in Basque, http://aurrekontuak.irekia.euskadi.net) and its fully [...]
The Basque Government decrees that software produced for public administrative and government bodies should be open sourced
The Basque autonomous government has decreed that all software produced for Basque government agencies and public bodies should be open sourced. The license chosen for the software will be the EUPL (European Union Public License). The only exceptions will be software that directly affects state security and a handful of projects which are being conducted [...]
Basque Open Data as a growing community
Open Data Euskadi, the Basque portal for open data, will turn 2 years old this month of april. Time for some thinking about our endeavour. In these two years, we have been pushing towards getting a critical mass of data in our service, so reusers can have prime material to work. The current number of [...]
Euskalsurf app for surfers in the Basque Country makes use of Open Data
EuskalSurf is an app for the iPhone created by a Basque company, Hegaka, that works as an guide for surfers that want to practice that sport in the Basque beaches (several well known European surfing spots among us). The app combines a variety of services like a connection with Windguru, connections to webcams in beaches, [...]
A report about European open data portals praises the Basque example
An European Commision report on Open Data portals has been released recently, and its content is based mainly in four case studies. One of those is ours, Open Data Euskadi, the Basque regional initiative. The other three are state initiatives in the UK, Denmark and France. The analysis referred to Open Data Euskadi emphasizes the [...]
The Basque Government joins the W3C thanks to its commitment to Open Government Data
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has admited The Basque Government and its Irekia initiative as a new member of the organisation. The Consortium has thus recognised the Open Government initiatives of the Basque administration and, particularly, as the welcome act states, “the commitment of the Basque Government to Open Government Data to achieve greater [...]
A presentation at the PSI Alliance 2011 conference
Alberto Ortiz de Zárate, Director of Citizen Attention of the Basque Government, the department in charge of this effort of Open Data Euskadi, took part this tuesday in an European conference in Brussels. The PSI Alliance 2011 annual conference (programme, PDF) was focused this year around the topic of economic growth, how public information and [...]
First aniversary of Open Data Euskadi
Open Data Euskadi, the public portal of the Basque Government, turns one today. It’s one year since we launcged, and the number of datasets that we offer are 1,272. Among those, the ones about statistic data are in English as well, the rest are bilingual in Spanish and Basque. We are obviously beginners but the [...]
Weather forecasts on Android phones with Basque Open Data
A basque company, Socsoft, has developed an Android widget that processes weather data from Open Data Euskadi to show forecasts on your mobile device. It can be installed from bit.ly/eguraldia and we have instructions in Spanish for that. The app itself can show the data either in Basque or Spanish. Here there are a couple [...]