The European Data Portal publishes its study " The Economic Impact of Open Data: Opportunities for value creation in Europe". It researches the value created by open data in Europe. It is the second study by the European Data Portal, following the 2015 report. The open data market size is estimated at €184 billion and forecast to reach between €199.51 and €334.21 billion in 2025. The report additionally considers how this market size is distributed along different sectors and how many people are employed due to open data. The efficiency gains from open data, such as potential lives saved, time

Open Data and Artificial Intelligence - a good interaction Water is one of three basic needs for humans. Our earth is mostly covered with water, while only two percent is fresh water. However, this topic does not only concern cities, but intelligent water management is one of the most vital challenges for smart cities in the future. With Open Data, it is possible to compare the water resources of countries as well as cities and derive measures from that. Regarding resource water management, the combination of Open Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) builds a good interaction to help managing

Often, when Open Data is discussed, the focus lies most of the time on business opportunities and the various benefits that Open (Government) Data holds for the economy and government, in particular with regards to fostering business innovation and efficiency gains. Further benefits however have also been quantified on other dimensions, such as the environmental and societal ones. Concerning the latter, the focus lies here on the added value that Open Data brings for democracy by enhancing transparency of political processes as well as boosting participation of citizens in the decision-making

The Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE) has awarded a total of €1.7m to the eighteen businesses selected for its first and second cohort. The startups and SMEs Sickly, Thingful, Pikhaya Smart Streets, CommoPrices, InSymbio, Instats, BikeCitizens, openlaws, OpenResort S/I-as-a-Service, IBeacons Living Lab, Open Data based Fire Risk Assessment, Farm Dog, Plume Air Cloud, DataPress, OpenGazettes, Provenance, RentSquare, and Unigraph hail from Austria, Estonia, France, Greece, Netherlands, Israel, Italy, the UK and Slovakia. The business provide solutions to pressing economic, social, and

On the 4th and 5th November 2017, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), one of Germany's 16 federal states, held the 3rd annual hackathon in a row. The annual #NRWHack is a successful and one of a kind platform bringing together the Open Data community and representatives of the public administration in NRW, and aims at facilitating communication and cooperation as well as awareness for Open Data. What could the participants expect? Open data enthusiasts, an open dialogue with public administration representatives and lots of Open Data - this time in particular Open Geo Data and Open Mobility Data -

With the summer holidays just around the corner, people are planning trips to numerous places all over Europe. Finding the right travel destination is not always easy, with a lot of competitive destinations throughout Europe. And what kind of activities can be undertaken at your destination? Here, Open Data can help out - both for the preparation of your trip as well as for travel information on the spot. And there is Open Data for all kind of travel purposes, regardless of whether you are going to visit a city, explore nature or relax on the beaches. For instance, 695 datasets are found for "

The developer community in Denmark never sleeps, as shown by a new application developed for the city of Aarhus - the second largest city in Denmark. The Århusr P-huse app is available for download for both Android and iOS smartphones and provides users with an intuitive and easy to use application for checking in real-time the availability of parking garages houses of Aarhus. It uses the dataset available on the Aarhus Open Data Portal which is also harvested by the European Data Portal, more specifically, the datasets on the parking garages in Aarhus. Being the second largest city in Denmark

The European Data Portal harvests the metadata of Public Sector Information available on portals, both national, regional and local, throughout Europe. Currently there are 71 catalogues which are harvested, with a total amount of over 616k datasets available on the European Data Portal. These datasets are divided over 13 data categories. Data categories are categorisations of datasets linked to a common theme. The 13 data categories available on the European Data Portal match with the categories identified by the European Commission in the context of the revision of the European DCAT

Falling temperatures across Europe signal the start of winter season. The favourite season for those loving snow and the holidays. It is also the season which often brings an unfriendly guest: sky-high heating bills. In order to stay warm and comfortable during the cold and dark winters many people heat up their houses, resulting in a sharp rise of the demand for heating in the winter months in Europe. Demand for heating tends to fluctuate over the course of the day, determined by human activity, house size, climate, insulation, fuel choice and fuel prices. This results in the fact that the

While for some of us life in a city is associated with diversity, liveliness, and fast pace, for others living in a city can represent a real stress factor. This is an aspect that many local governments are trying to tackle in their quest to increase the quality of life of the city inhabitants. Where does Open Data come in in this scenario and how can it help make life in the city more pleasant? When we look at the most popular categories in terms of page views on the European Data portal, the categories ' Regions & Cities' and ' Transport' rank highest in terms of page views. The latter