
ROUTETOPA User Stories
ROUTETOPA is an acronym that stands for Raising Open and User-friendly, Transparency Enabling Technologies for Public Administrations. It is a three-year, multidisciplinary, European Union Horizon 2020 innovation project aimed at improving citizen engagement by enabling meaningful interaction between open data users, open data publishers and open data. ROUTETOPA’s seeks to do this in 4 ways: […]

SPOD 1.10 “Okul” is now here!
Proud and happy to announce the new version 1.10 of the Social Platform for Open Data (SPOD). Our SPOD allows easy discussions, effective co-creation and smooth social interactions around Open Data. Among the relevant features of “Okul”: Major features: Cocreation: a new User Interface design with refactoring (feedback from extensive use in Hetor project, June-October […]

Deliverable 2.3 now available
Details Subject: User stories on Open Data and Transparency Document produced by: School of Psychology and Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University Ireland Galway (NUIG) Authors/emails: Michael Hogan, michael.hogan@nuigalway.ie, Owen Harney, harneyowen@gmail.com, Paolo Boscolo, p.boscolo@comune.prato.it, Elena Palmisano, elena.palmisano@pin.unifi.it, Jerry Andriessen, jerry@wisenmunro.org, Erna Ruijer, H.J.M.Ruijer@uu.nl, Jonathan Groff, jonathan.groff@telecom-paristech.fr, Adegboyega Ojo, adegboyega.ojo@insight-centre.org, Lukasz Porwol, lukasz.porwol@insight-centre.org Due date: 31 July 2015 Summary Route-To-PA (Raising Open and […]

Deliverable 2.2 now available
Details Subject: Analytical Model and Initial Scenarios on Open Data and Transparency Document produced by: Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University Ireland Galway (NUIG) Authors/emails: Adegboyega Ojo, adegboyega.ojo@insight-centre.org, Lukasz Porwol, lukasz.porwol@insight-centre.org, Edobor Osagie, edobor.osagie@insight-centre.org, Samuel Adebayo, samuel.adebayo@insight-centre.org, Mike Hogan, michael.hogan@nuigalway.ie Due date: 31 July 2015 Summary Route-To-PA (Raising Open and User-friendly Transparency-Enabling Technologies for Public Administration) is an innovation […]

Workshops Summary
Four different workshops were conducted in four countries across participating EU States – Dublin (Ireland, 17 April, 2015); Prato (Italy, 23rd April, 2015), Dijon (France, 15th May, 2015) and Groningen (The Netherlands, 19 May, 2015). Dublin workshop assembled 18 participants from several domains including public administration, ICT professionals, as well as the Open Data experts, Social Scientists and […]

Open Data Stakeholder Interview
The interview was planned to sample the opinions of open data stakeholders and end users from among the upstream, midstream and downstream segments of the open data sector practitioners. From the upstream group, we engaged stakeholders that supply data to the industry such as data generators and publishers typically the government but also including the […]

Workshop on User Stories and Scenarios for Open Data
Three different workshops were conducted in three countries across participating EU States – Dublin (Ireland, 17 April, 2015); Prato (Italy, 23rd April, 2015) and Groningen (The Netherlands, 19 May, 2015). The purpose of the workshops was to assemble industry practitioners – Researchers, Academics, Developers, Social Psychologist, Citizens and Public Administrators – to brainstorm and generate ideas in […]