Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data. This year’s thematic focus is Open Data for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Connecting Europe Facility-Telecom contributes to the deployment of fully-fledged open data infrastructure that boost the development of information products and services based on the reuse and combination of data. This infrastructure addresses the outstanding technical and legal challenges of interoperability of data, maximising the reuse of open data by public administrations and businesses.
Find below some examples of projects funded by CEF-Telecom:
- WHOW (Water Health Open knoWledge) developed a framework to foster the creation of a large data ecosystem on water consumption and quality, health parameters, and dissemination of diseases. This data ecosystem will be reused for advanced analysis and development of innovative services. The action contributes to the SDGs, including the indicators 6 - Clean water and sanitation; indicator 3 - Health and well-being; and indicator 14 - Life Below Water.
- Baltic Data Flows enhanced the sharing and harmonisation of data on marine environment originating from existing sea monitoring programmes, with the aim of transitioning towards service-based data sharing. In particular, open datasets are made available by the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) with a wider community, such as European open data ecosystem, researchers, NGOs, and private sector. They will all benefit from the availability of harmonised environmental data. The action contributes to the SDGs, specifically to indicator 14 - Life Below Water.
- ODALA: Collaborative, Secure, and Replicable Open Source Data Lakes for Smart Cities. The project enabled the automated identification and reuse of legacy city data, and provided an open-source software platform that combines that data with real-time data collected from Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and other Smart data sources. This was achieved by the development and deployment of a unified ‘Hybrid Data Lake’, initially in the City of Kiel, and subsequently in Heidelberg, Arezzo, St. Quentin, and Cartagena.
- Open IACS: Open LOD platform based on HPC capabilities for Integrated Administration of Common Agriculture Policy. The project fostered data use and reuse in the context of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), to improve its accessibility and usability by farmers, policy makers and third parties such as SMEs. In doing so, it provided an open community platform for sharing solutions in the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) domain for the CAP through the Linked Open Data paradigm.
Connecting Europe Facility - Telecom
Connecting Europe Facility ‘Telecom’ (2014-2020) facilitated the cross-border interaction between public administrations, businesses and citizens, by deploying Digital Service Infrastructures (DSI) and broadband networks.
Background
Open Data allows to transform and share public policy, build new business opportunities, improve sectors such as agriculture, environment, or health, and provide usable data that helps make informed decisions. Open Data can improve efficiency of all economic sectors, address societal challenges, and accelerate scientific progress, since it is easily accessible, sharable and free-to-use.
The Data Governance Act and The Open Data Directive shape the EU’s regulatory framework that allows to create a level playing field for the use of trustworthy open data, as part of the European Strategy for Data, contributing to Europe’s global competitiveness and data sovereignty.