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UE obliges countries to make public data open and available for reuse
The EU 27 member states formally approved the European Commission’s (EC) new rulebook on the re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI) yesterday. The PSI Directive will thus improve upon its original 2003 form once it is voted in as law by the European Parliament. The overarching objective is to reach a Europe-wide consensus in making [...]
Open Data Hack Day in Bilbao
A group of enthusiast reusers met at the University of Deusto (Bilbao) on 23rd of February in the Open Data Hack Day. Their main purpose was to promote Linked Open Data movement, publish new datasets and design and implement applications based on public open data. Participants were organized in work groups and they used data [...]
Award for Open Data Euskadi in CNIS
Open Data Euskadi was awarded the prize for its “Reference role in Transparency/Open Data” in the 3rd Interoperability and Security National Congress (CNIS), which took place in Madrid last week, as of 20th ant 21th of February. Javier Bikandi -Director of the Citizen Attention, Electronic Administration and Innovation Office- presented the project during the second [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]