The recent decision of British people about leaving the EU introduces lots of uncertainties. One of them, and I am rather sure that it will not be on the core of the discussions is about opening their research. it is a brave decision of the EU research program to force every entity using their public […]
My talk about the impact of opendata in our society. A discussion panel at open expo. Find here the slides of my presentation. I remark that even having some interesting economic predictions the model to determine the social and economic impact is mostly unknown. And so the public policies to optimise the open data publishing. […]
Just a tiny spillover of my job to share with you. If you are a linked open data portal administrator in Spain is quite likely that you have chosen the Spanish regulation to categorize all the datasets in your catalogue. The coming EU regulation, DCAT-AP use a slightly different approach, and they have qualified around […]
CBD, Charlatan Based Decisions, are, in the political arena, those decisions taken not because is there any data backing it but just because they sound coherent with an ideology. After a CBD is taken, data about the results are ignored, distorted, manipulated, or, in the best case, only presented those that hardly fit into their […]
Last 20 and 21st of November in Las Palmas city (Spain) I have been helping the Smart city hackaton Resolve your city. You can find here the slides: [slideshare id=55417979&doc=20151120-hackaton-laspalmasaagv01-151123140114-lva1-app6892]
The slides in Spanish, “El valor económico de los datos abiertos: Nuevas oportunidades de negocio para las empresas” 20151120 jornadas-las palmas aag-v02 from Alberto Abella
On the 20th of November I will give a lecture at Las Palmas with the title “El valor económico de los datos: Nuevas oportunidades de negocio para las empresas” (The economic value of data: New business opportunities for companies) You can register for free to attend. The full day agenda Date 20 de noviembre de […]
On November 12nd I have been presenting MELODA talking about information reuse and collaborative economy on XVII SEDIC sessions. Find here the presentation. 20151113 jornadas-sociedad-informacion-biblioteca-nacional aag-v01 from Alberto Abella 20151113-JORNADAS-SOCIEDAD-INFORMACION-BIBLIOTECA-NACIONAL_AAG_V01
This is the presentation of my speech at La casa encendida. Past present and future of the relation between citizens and cities. and how can cities can be understood as digital ecosystems. New trends in citizen experience and open government. Together with : Peter Harper, Head of Research and Innovation at the Centre for Alternative […]
Here you can find a paper (in Spanish) about the conditioning factors for the social and economic impact of open data. It is in Spanish and focused on libraries, but some of the principals could be easily generalised. Hopefully I will translate it soon. Abstract. The economic impact of open data has been studied and […]