A little bit about open data in Spain

by gabriela on 30/04/2010

We invited Aitor García and Roberto Salicio for a chat a couple of days ago. These guys have lately been up to some serious business with AbreDatos: a 48-hour contest they launched to gather new and interesting ideas to digest raw government data. The winners will soon be announced. Here’s an excerpt of that conversation:

The idea behind open data is that of accountability, enabling a system to work for it’s people and not the other way around. In the U.S. the wheel has already began to turn, initiatives such as the Obama’s administration Data.gov or a society that finds concepts such as democratizing data and e-government more and more familiar, are all important steps towards the right direction.

In Spain the wheel is turning a bit more slowly, but turning nevertheless.  The people behind AbreDatos and all of those who’ve participated are leading the way.

There is 1 comment in this article:

  1. 14/08/2011Ali POLATER says:

    Dear Sir/Madame,

    I am the owner of domain name Datapublica.com, I have registered 2009.

    Would you give any contact of people in Spain working on open data projects, that may be interested in purchasing this domaine name.

    Best regards,
    Ali POLATER

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