Today 20th from 10:30 to 18:00 of October I will be attending the event #LabCiutatOberta http://dimmons.net/ciutatoberta/ in order to co-create based on #data of the cities of Barcelona. Dealing with the genre dimension of street names. and many other data. Free to join at Fabra coats
Next 27 and 28 of September it will be held the IODC conference (international open data conference). On behalf of desidedatum I will be there sharing knowledge and experience. Additionally there are many interesting collateral events in the previous days. It seems interesting the IODC 2018 – Data Standards Day, also interesting Abrelatam 2018 and […]
DATA WHAT DATA? Current parliament in Spain has only 44/350 = 12.6 % members educated with STEM. Conversely, law background tops to 160/350= 45.7%. Have you notice of any university, company, or equivalent entity without a beam projector or equivalent device to analyse the data behind a problem or any other kind of information? Could […]
My bet on the roadmap of Artificial intelligence in Spain Version 0 of the roadmap that artificial intelligence will follow in Spain. Milestone 1.- There are news in magazines and other media about the possibility to delegate totally or partially de decisions of the government in #artificial intelligence Milestone 2.- There are scientific articles studying […]
On April 2018 a district of Tokyo had artificial candidate running for election. My bet on it is that the replacement for most of our human elected candidates in democracies is ineluctable. It is true that artificial intelligence is currently limited and that many psychological aspects of human behaviour are poorly implemented. But it is […]
note: This article is an English translation of the original one published in the blog of transparencia internacional España. See it in Spanish there. Transparency is undoubtedly a trend in public governance. Open government, possibly the trending topic of public governance, requires transparency and accountability as a basis for public management. Many regions, municipalities and […]
The report Reutilisation of Open Data: an opportunity for Spain, was presented on the 23rd of October. It characterises a representative sample of the 20,000 datasets published in Spain (march 2017). The reuse of open data: an opportunity for Spain from Alberto Abella The study reveals the lack of homogeneity and quality of the published […]
Long time ago since I haven’t written anything in this blog. Now I want to share an interesting methodology to check the transparency in a public institution, and why not? in a private one as well. It has been developed by the council of transparency of Spain. It is call MESTA, an acronym of “Methodology […]
The information that is published and that imposes barriers to reuse is not really open from the point of view of transparency. The monitoring action of the published information can only be produced if it can really be used and reused with the minimum cost and maximum reach. Six recommendations are included here for the […]
Just for fun I have started a set of #opendata advises. So everyday (mostly) you can find a twitt in my account @aabella, but if you want to recover some old one you have a table with all of them in the #opendata advises link in the menu.