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Presentation of #da12data in the #OpenData Week of Nantes (France).
Last Friday I was on Nantes, I presented the #da12data initiative (this initiative!) in the OpenData Week of Nantes (France): http://www.opendataweek.org/
If your are interested in this presentation, here there are the details: http://homemadebroth.blogspot.com/2012/06/presentation-of-da12data-in-op...
A single OpenData license for all EU is a great action to improve our Open Data sector
Having a single Open Data license for all European Union is a great action to improve our Open Data sector.
According to the Fundación CTIC (the Spanish Office of the W3C) today there are more than 50 Open Data Portals in the European Union (I suggest you to see this Open Data Portals map: http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/).
Many of them are very simple, but some are among the best Open Data portals in the world: http://data.gov.uk is a good example.
Smart City generates a lot of data. It's a Big Data case.
Several european cities do a new management approach: it's called "Smart City".
At the end of 2009 more people lived in cities than in rural areas for the first time, and the trend is for the urban population to keep growing (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS/countries/1W?displ...)
So, we need to manage cities more and better, we need creativity, innovation, ideas to break the mould of urban management today.
