Dr. Lorenzo Dalla Corte dissertation entitled Safeguarding data protection in an open data world; On the idea of balancing open dataand data protection in the development of the smart city environment is now available online.
We opened a new 2 year post doc position on Urbidata: ethics for the (open) data city. Further information is available through this link
On 18 May, Lorenzo presented and defended his dissertation entitled “Safeguarding Data Protection in an Open Data World”. And did it very successfully. Congratulations Lorenzo!
On Monday May 18th at 1:30pm Lorenzo Dalla Corte will defend his thesis “Safeguarding Data Protection in an Open Data World – on the idea of balancing data protection and open data in the development of the ’smart city’ environment”. The link for the live stream is: https://tiu.nu/livephddefense The main research question the idea that dataRead More…
The Knowledge Centre Open Data received an Erasmusplus grant for the SPIDER: open SPatial data Infrastructure eDucation nEtwoRk project. In the 3-year project, the Knowledge Centre will collaborate with Bochum University of Applied Sciences, KU Leuven, Lund University and the University of Zagreb. Its overarching objective is to promote and strengthen active learning and teachingRead More…
On October 9th the KCOD as part of the SPIDER project presented the concept of Open SDI and its legal and ethical challenges to students of Wageningen University as part of the seminar Seminar Geodata, Citizens and Ethics. The presentation ‘Open SDI: Restoring the balance‘ addressed issues arising from the increasing amount of open governmentRead More…
The KNAW published on 20 June 2019 the report “Hergebruik van publieke data; Meer wetenschap en beter overheidsbeleid”. The summary of the report reads: “Data uit overheidsadministraties leveren een schat aan kennis op voor wetenschap en overheidsbeleid, maar ze worden daarvoor nog niet ten volle benut. Het gaat om data uit administraties van het Rijk,Read More…
KCOD’s Ploeger and Van Loenen see an important role for the notary public in authorising data and algorithms. On June 25, at the Royal Notaries Association in Utrecht Ploeger and Van Loenen presented their paper “De slimme, open stad: de menselijke maat in de datagedreven stad van 2050”. The paper introduces the concepts of dataRead More…
KCOD’s Bastiaan van Loenen presented the concept of open spatial data infrastructures at the Institute fur Geo-Information (IFGI), University of Muenster, Germany. In his presentation he addressed the most pressing societal challenges and the role open SDIs may play in addressing these challenges. The audience highlighted that the German SDI is in a very earlyRead More…
On Monday 17 June, The Open Data Knowledge Centre organised together with Lund University, University of Zagreb and Bochum University of Applied Science, a workshop ‘Towards an Open SDI’ in Limassol, Cyprus as part of the AGILE Conference. During this Workshop the recently adopted Open Data Public Sector Information Directive was explained and the impactRead More…