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 […]
Transparency is undoubtedly a trend in public governance. The open government, possibly the trending topic in public governance requires to be transparent and accountable as the basis for public management. Many regions, municipalities and the central government of Spain have passed laws supporting transparency and the right of information. Even more, some private standards even […]
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 […]
My speech at AEMET talking about how to make open data used and valuable. (In spanish)
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 […]
This September 7th I have presented the lecture “The future and impact of open data: Lies, half-truths and other uncomfortable facts” Thanks to the organisers Toñi Ferrer and Fernanda Peset and to the @upv. Delighted to share the event with @cabralens, #herve falciani, @adolflow and @kikollan and many others. 20160807-data-reusability-meloda_aag_v04 You can find here 4 […]
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.
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 […]