State of implementation

El Digital Training Plan of Andalusia 2022-2025, approved by the Governing Council on December 12, 2022, is the strategic planning of the Junta de Andalucía to position our Autonomous Community at the forefront of digital competences. This strategy is formed around 5 axes of action and 41 measures. Among the measures of the “Axis 1 Digital Competences for Citizenship”, is specifically the “Measure 1.6 Training in Open Data”.

This measure consists of raising awareness and training the Andalusian citizens about the possibilities of access to data that are freely and without restrictions made available to them publicly, so that they can access, share and use them as they see fit. The ultimate objective of this action is therefore to give visibility and usefulness to transparency and open data portals, as well as to promote the inclusion and empowerment of citizens to participate in public activity.

Currently, this initiative is in the bidding phase of a contract that will provide various open data training services, such as the realization of courses and webinars aimed at the general public, as well as personnel from universities, SMEs and the open data reuse community in general. It also includes the celebration of an annual event, type Datathon to increase the dissemination and promotion of the use of data for the generation of economic value.

Throughout the year 2023 and to date, several dissemination and training activities in open data have been carried out. In particular:

1. In September 2023, once the por was published Agreement of 29 August 2023 the Governing Council , on taking note of the implementation of actions for the opening of High Value data in the scope of the Administration of the Junta de Andalucía, was given publicity from the transparency portal and from social networks (tweet))
2. This same month, the Open Data Unit of the Digital Agency of Andalusia participated as an expert advisor on open data together with representatives of the FAMP (Andalusian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces), in the kick-off meeting for the thematic groups of the Interreg OD4GROWTH project held in Warsaw. It is a project co-financed by the European Union with the aim of strengthening the availability and use of open data to promote urban growth and transformation in local European entities.
3. In June 2023, as part of the activities scheduled at the stand of the Junta de Andalucía in the 2023 edition of the DES (Digital Enterprise Show) at the Palacio de Fairs and Exhibitions in Malaga, a case of use of reuse oriented to SMEs was presented based on data set published in the open data catalog of the Junta de Andalucía: “Energy efficiency analysis on the Costa del Sol for tourist housing”.
4. That same month, the Open Data Unit participated in the Forum 2023: “New spaces of Public Transparency” organized by the Council of Transparency and Data Protection of Andalusia, in which the legal issues of data opening were disseminated.
5. Also in June 2023, within the framework of the development of the Operational Plans of Public Transparency 2023/2024, presentations of the open data initiative were made to the Transparency Units of the Junta de Andalucía and an infographic was prepared and published in the Institutional Portal with the main metrics of the Open Data Portal, normative information on the reuse of information of the public sector and its relationship with the works in the field of public transparency of Andalusia: Transparency and Open Data.
6. In March 2023, as part of the activities of the Open Week of the Administration, an open data dissemination campaign was carried out using social networks. Several descriptive infographics of the open data project and the open data portal (tweet1, Twit2, tweet3, Tweet4, Twit5, tweet6, Twit7, Tweet8, tweet9).

In previous years, a significant number of training and dissemination actions have been carried out in open data, which are listed below:

• In June and July 2022, the Digital Agency of Andalusia participated in the Open Administration Week 2022, where different activities were developed, among which we highlight: a Dialogue Table on open data and reuse with companies in the sector and the infomedia sector; the activities of dissemination of the Open Data Portal of the Junta de Andalucía with different activities of dissemination of the same in social networks with videos and infographics (twitter1, twitter2, twitter3, twitter4, twitter5, twitter6); activity on datahack, open data and its potential, and days of public law, data and artificial intelligence.
• In June 2022, the Agency participated in the 2022 edition of the DES (Digital Enterprise Show) at the Malaga Trade Fair and Exhibition Centre with a stand presenting the projects of the Junta de Andalucía on different subjects, among others Cybersecurity, Digital Literacy and Open Data.
• On December 19, 2021, a session was held to publicize the potential for the reuse of open data at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Seville.
• On December 15, 2021, a seminar was given at the University of Seville on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, for students of the three degrees of Computer Engineering (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Computer Technologies).
• During the year 2021, courses of different subjects for citizenship have been taught, among which we highlight:
  • Your opinion counts: e-Democracy and citizen participation
  • Introduction to Business Intelligence and Big Data
  • Data science and its importance in the current and future labour market
  • Launch Big Data with Hadoop from Scratch
  • Business Intelligence: what it is and how it is applied in the world of work

In parallel, courses have been taught for ICT companies, SMEs and self-employed people, among which we highlight:

• Program "Datafactory"

https://tic.andaluciaconectada.es/datafactory-tic/

https://empresas.andaluciaconectada.es/datafactory-industria/

• Program "Technological specialization Sector ICT: Big Data and IoT"

https://tic.andaluciaconectada.es/big-data-iot-andalucia/

https://observatorio.andaluciaconectada.es/publicaciones/estado-de-arte-y-tendencias-big-data-y-business-analytics/

https://observatorio.andaluciaconectada.es/publicaciones/informe-de-capacidades-andaluzas-en-big-data-business-analytics-iot-e-ioe/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WwEW2RP8WI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkPwpZOX0k

• Course "Become a Data Scientist"
• Course "Business Intelligence"
• Training pill "This is how your SME can benefit from Big Data"
• Webinar "Small data, the big data of small businesses."

In the first months of 2024, outreach activities have been carried out in the open data portal and social networks, collaboration with the interreg OD4GROWTH project is continuing with the FAMP and activities are being prepared for the 2024 Open Week of the Administration.

On the other hand, internally, a course on Open Data organized by the IAAP is being organized that will be taught in the second semester of 2024 and an information pill for the public employee TIC.