Canary Islands. Open data portal

datos.canarias.es

Abstract

In this year 2021, the Government of the Canary Islands has reached a new milestone in its commitment to open data and has published the new Portal de Datos Abiertos de Canarias, that allows more than 7,600 data sets, the biggest in all Spain.

The final purpose of Portal de Datos Abiertos de Canarias is become in the unique access point for all the open data in the Archipelago, regardless of the institution that provides the data. In addition, the Portal has been federated with datos.gob.es, making it the autonomous community that contributes the most data to it and thus makes the Canary Islands data visible within the European area.

The Government of the Canary Islands is positioned as a reference in the opening of data, an example of this is that it has been indicated by the maturity indicators of European Open Data as an exemplary government in the opening of data, specifically by the #OpenDataMujeresCanarias project, created in 2019, which aimed to promote the use of open data to raise awareness, promote gender equality and foster a balance between leisure time and work life and an equitable distribution of public and private responsibilities between men and women.