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We are excited to announce that the data.europa academy is live! Our team launched a packed curriculum with free courses designed for the open data community to learn what open data is and how to work with it. Whether you are a data provider, policymaker, or data enthusiast, the data.europa academy will help you become more knowledgeable about open data, and use it to your advantage. The curriculum is structured along four themes: 1. Policy: Learn about the implementation of open data policies, strategies, open data governance, data protection, and privacy regulations. 2. Impact: Understand

'The teams behind the apps' is a series of videos made by the  EU Datathon finalists. Discover the people and their proposals for apps over nine episodes, once a week, in a run-up to the final event. At the competition finals in November the teams will pitch their apps to the jury who will select the winners. In this second episode, meet CityScale, a Ukraine-based application built to help you find the best place to live. They are competing with two other teams in challenge 2: ‘An economy that works for people’. CityScale collects data on cities, and the application gauges the quality and cost

Are you an innovator or entrepreneur, eager to develop innovative solutions making use of space data? Then you can take part in the myEU Space Competition! The competition aims to bring forward innovative solutions for mobile apps, wearables, tracking solutions, robotics, or others, by making use of EU Space data from Galileo or Copernicus. You can participate as a team and your solution should fall into one of the six themes: Move me smart Space my life Our green planet Map my world Farming by satellite Dive in quantum There are two options for delivering your solution, either by bringing

How can we unlock the potential of data and data science to provide answers to the most pressing questions of our time? The global challenges we face today grow increasingly complex. To support problem-solving approaches and policymaking, innovative solutions, and ideas for developing these solutions are urgently needed. The 100 Questions Initiative aims to define the high-impact challenges of our time, leverage relevant datasets to address these challenges, and set up data collaboratives to solve them. Data collaboratives offer a promising avenue for making optimal use of datasets as they

'The teams behind the apps' is a series of videos made by the EU Datathon finalists. Discover the people and their proposals for apps over nine episodes, once a week, in a run-up to the final event. At the competition finals in November the teams will pitch their apps to the jury who will select the winners. In the first episode, meet the team behind TrackMyEU, an app to 'explore EU policies, track your interests and make your voice heard in Brussels'. They are competing with two other teams in challenge 3: ‘A Europe fit for the digital age’. Who is the team behind the app? Chiara Girardelli

We know that open data supports data-driven decision-making and has the power to create true societal value. Yet data-driven decision-making is not straightforward. It is both complex and multifaceted. Behind the datasets, there is a myriad of platforms, analysts, and processes that govern the data processing that ultimately leads to insights. When looking at the data lifecycle as a whole, however, it can be hard to disentangle the processes and make sense of them. To help you get a better understanding of the processes, the Open Data Policy Lab published the Third Wave of Open Data Toolkit

This week the Canadian Open Data Summit takes place online from 15 to 16 September! This two-day event is co-organised by the City of Montreal and the Secretariat of the Quebec Treasury Board and already celebrates its 6th birthday. The 2021 edition of the summit focuses on two major themes: Responsible Data Governance The first step in the lifecycle of data is publishing open data. What are the processes, dynamics, and frameworks that make this possible? Which actors are involved in the process? And, what are the difficulties of managing, and governing open data? Join the sessions to dive

Join the hybrid edition of the European Blockchain Week (EBCW) 2021 on 20-24 September in Ljubljana, Slovenia! The event is organised in the framework of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The event follows the new European Green Deal towards a green and digital transition, focusing on the role that advanced technologies such as blockchain and AI have to support this transition. The goal of the event is to show participants how technology can achieve a more competitive and resilient economy, while enabling higher quality jobs and lives in society. In the fight to

Explore the recently published dataset to get insights into cases where Artificial Intelligence (AI) was used within European public sector bodies. The dataset is published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in the context of the European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government (ELISE) action. The cases included in the dataset are collected by the AI Watch, a European Commission Knowledge for policy initiative. A series of activities, such as surveys, workshops, interviews, and desk research, have been conducted within the AI Watch to collect the cases. These cases provide a

To support applications for social good, Google AI published the Open Buildings dataset. This extensive open dataset includes building footprints, which are detections of buildings on an area of land. These detections are created with high-resolution satellite images and machine learning tools. Currently, the dataset includes 516 million building detections, across an area of 19.4 million km2 on the continent of Africa (64% of the continent). Knowing whether or not a building is present is extremely useful for: Population estimation when there is rapid change, or census information is not up