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HackCodeX and my role of the Keynote speaker with “Data Quality as a prerequisite for business success: when should I start taking care of it?”
June 3-5, 2023 HackCodeX hackathon – a weekend-long experience, gathering tech enthusiasts from all over Europe to develop new ideas with the latest technology in a unique environment and atmosphere that serves as the…
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📢📢📢New Article “Towards High-Value Datasets determination for data-driven development: a systematic literature review” is recommended by The Living Library!
Our new article titled “Towards High-Value Datasets determination for data-driven development: a systematic literature review” (Nikiforova A., Rizun N., Ciesielska M., Alexopoulos C., Miletič A.) is now available at arXiv with supplementary data published at Zenodo and…
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Guest Lecture for the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR) on Open Data Ecosystems in and for sustainable development of data-driven smart cities and Society 5.0
Today (May 16, 2023), I had a pleasure to deliver one more guest lecture for master and doctoral students of the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR)) as…
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Rii Forum 2023 “Innovation 5.0: Navigating shocks and crises in uncertain times Technology-Business-Society” & a plenary debate “Advances in ICT & the Society”
The last week I had an unforgettable experience at the Research and Innovation Forum (Rii Forum) on which I posted previously in Krakow, Poland acting as plenary speaker and a chair for a session.…
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CFP for The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2023)
On behalf of the organizers (Technical Program Chair, Steering Committee, and finally publicity chair) of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2023), I am inviting everyone, who is conducting…
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NEW reading!!! 📜📜📜 The role of open government data and co-creation in crisis management: Initial conceptual propositions from the COVID-19 pandemic📜📜📜
This time I am glad to announce that our paper The Role of Open Government Data and Co-Creation in Crisis Management: Initial Conceptual Propositions from the COVID-19 Pandemic developed together with Keegan McBride (Oxford…
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Rii Forum 2023 “Innovation 5.0: Navigating shocks and crises in uncertain times Technology-Business-Society” & a plenary debate “Advances in ICT & the Society”
This April the next edition of the Research and Innovation Forum (Rii Forum) on which I posted previously will take place. For those, who are not familiar with Rii Forum yet, it is an…
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Data Security as a Top Priority in the Digital World: Preserve Data Value by Being Proactive and Thinking Security First
As you probably know from my previous posts, in 2022 I was honored to take part in The International Research & Innovation Forum, where I acted as both, as an author and presenter, panel…
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Participate in the European Digital Skills Certificate (EDSC) feasibility study!
📣📣📣 This is a short post to let you know that we have reached the most important phase of the consultation process for the European Digital Skills Certificate (#EDSC) feasibility study, and on behalf…
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The International Open Data Day and my role of Keynote Speaker for the 5th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2023) 🎤🎤🎤
This post is dedicated to two very pleasant events for me, namely the international Open Data Day 🎉🍾🥂, and the announcement of the keynote talk that I was kindly invited to deliver at the…
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CFP: The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2023)
On behalf of the organizers and as a publicity chair, I sincerely invite you to consider submitting the results of your recent research to The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications…
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Towards data quality by design – ISO/IEC 25012-based methodology for managing DQ requirements in the development of IS
It is obvious that users should trust the data that are managed by software applications constituting the Information Systems (IS). This means that organizations should ensure an appropriate level of quality of the data…
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Our – EOSC TF “FAIR Metrics and Data Quality” paper “Towards a data quality framework for EOSC” is released!🍷🍷🍷
I am glad to announce the release of “Towards a data quality framework for EOSC” document, which we have been hard at work on hard for several months as the Data Quality subgroup of…
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Call for Papers: Emerging Data- and Policy-driven Approaches for African Cities Challenges, Data & Policy, Cambridge University Press
On behalf of Guest Editors I sincerely invite you to consider submitting your work to our Special Issue ”Emerging Data- and Policy-driven Approaches for African Cities Challenges” as part of the open-access journal Data & Policy at…
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“Emerging issues and innovations” track as part of IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023 is open for submissions!
On behalf of the co-chair of “Emerging issues and innovations” track I sincerely invite everyone whose research focuses on new topics emerging in the field of ICT and public sector, including public-private ecosystems, to…
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Wrapping up 2022
While 2022 can be characterized by many challenges that each and every person and society as a whole faced, at the end of this year, I would like to refer to only the positive…
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CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData): where the Edge meets the Cloud
On behalf of the organizers, I sincerely invite you to consider submitting the results of your recent research to The Third International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData), which will…
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Our – EOSC TF “FAIR Metrics and Data Quality” – whitepaper “Community-driven Governance of FAIRness Assessment: An Open Issue, an Open Discussion” is published by European Commission!
Proud to be part of the EOSC Task Force on FAIR Metrics and Data Quality and present our whitepaper “Community-driven Governance of FAIRness Assessment: An Open Issue, an Open Discussion” (Mark D. Wilkinson; Susanna-Assunta…
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UT & Swedbank Data Science Seminar “When, Why and How? The Importance of Business Intelligence”
Last week I had the pleasure of taking part in a Data Science Seminar titled “When, Why and How? The Importance of Business Intelligence”. In this seminar, organized by the Institute of Computer Science (University of…
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Latvian Open Data Hackathon for pupils 2022 – winners are announced!
During the last month, I have been a mentor of the Latvian Open Data Hackathon and an idea generator for pupils, organized by the Latvian Open Technologies Association with the support of DATI Group, E-Klase, Latvijas Kultūras akadēmija…
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14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K): how it was and who got the Best Paper Award?
In this post I would like to briefly elaborate on a truly insightful 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K), where I was honored to participate as a…
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ICEGOV2022: 4 insightful days and four roles – participant / attendee, author / presenter, workshop chair and Best Paper Awards nominee (part 2)
In previous post I already shared my impressions with ICEGOV ICEGOV2022 conference – 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, which took place in a very specific place – Guimarães that…
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ICEGOV2022: 4 insightful days and four roles – participant / attendee, author / presenter, workshop chair and Best Paper Awards nominee (part 1)
This October (2022) I had a pleasure and honor to spend four absolutely insightful days at ICEGOV2022 conference – 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, which took place in a…
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A keynote for the Innovation and Smart Government Conference 2022 (ISGOV2022)
This September I was exceptionally proud to be invited to serve as one of two keynotes for the Innovation and Smart Government Conference 2022 (ISGOV2022) and open this conference, delivering my talk titled “Data…
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AI for Open Data or Open Data for AI? An invited talk for BBDU Development Program «Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development»🎤
Recently I was honored to contribute to Babu Banarasi Das University (BBDU, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) Development Program «Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development» with the talk entitled “Artificial Intelligence for Open Data…
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Several summer activities – African Smart Cities Lab, One Conference 2022, EFSA & EBTC joint project, Guest Lecture, “Virtual Brown Bag Lunch”
Considering that in last weeks I was pretty active in delivering very many talks, let me use this post to summarize some of them thereby remaining them in my memory as well as allowing…
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ICEGOV2022 workshop: Identification of high-value dataset determinants: is there a silver bullet?
This year the 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance known as ICEGOV2022 will be focused on “Digital Governance for Social, Economic, and Environmental Prosperity”. And we – me, Charalampos Alexopoulos,…
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Editorial Board Member of Data & Policy (Cambridge University Press)
Since July 2022, I am elected by Syndicate of Cambridge University Press as an Editorial Board Member of the Cambridge University Journal Data & Policy. Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue…
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Editorial Board Member of eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM)
Since June 2022, I am an Editorial Board Member of the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) – a platinum/diamond scholarly-led Open Access e-journal managed by an interdisciplinary team of scholars at the…
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ONE Conference 2022: why to attend and how to meet me there?
The ONE Conference 2022 (Health, Environment, Society) – a four-day event happening in Brussels and online, is coming! Register and meet me there ️(Brussels & online, 21-24 June) as one of panelists of the…
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Research and Innovation Forum 2022: panel organizer, speaker, PC member, moderator and Best panel moderator award
As I wrote earlier, this year I was invited to organize my own panel session within the Research and Innovation Forum (Rii Forum). This invitation was a follow-up on several articles that I have…
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Google.org supported programme by Riga TechGirls and my participation in it as a speaker and lead mentor for the digital development workshop on Information and data literacy
This February I got yet another experience by participating in a programme launched by Riga TechGirls and supported by Google.org (“Google Impact challenge” grant), in addition to local supporters such as the Ministry of…
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The International Day of Women and girls in Science and my new role – Keynote Speaker for the international Innovation and Smart Government (ISGov) conference
And today, celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science dedicated to celebration of both science and gender equality (as part of United Nations Transforming our World: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development),…
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Research and Innovation Forum 2022 and my own panel on data security
This year I have been invited to organize my own panel session to take place during the Research and Innovation Forum (Rii Forum). This invitation was a follow-up to several articles I recently published…
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First paper in my Special Issue “Hybrid Data-Driven and Physical Modelling for Energy-Related Problems: Towards Smarter Energy Management”
As an academic editor of the Special Issue “Hybrid Data-Driven and Physical Modelling for Energy-Related Problems: Towards Smarter Energy Management” (Energies MDPI, Impact Factor:3.004 (2020); 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.085 (2020)), I am glad to…
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First International Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies Conference (EGETC)
As the general co-chair of the First International Conference in Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies (EGETC-2022), I sincerely invite you to consider your participation as authors and presenters or the attendees in this event.…
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2021 Summary
Here is the time to summarize the events, activities and achievements of 2021. Although there were some challenges and issues hat have been overcome, it was quite fruitful, and I am absolutely grateful for…
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International conference on the Intelligent Data Science (IDSTA2021): one conference – a ton of impressions
This November I had another great experience – participation in one of my favorite conferences – International conference on the Intelligent Data Science (IDSTA2021) collocated with Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA). Unfortunately, due to…
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October – the month of Guest Lectures
This autumn, and more precisely in October, there were a lot of public activities, including delivering my talk at the ICEGOV2021 (14th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2021) “Smart Digital…
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Europe Biobank Week 2021
This is a short note about Europe Biobank Week 2021, which took place in an online mode this year during 8-10 November. EBW is jointly organized by ESBB (European, Middle Eastern & African Society…
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My first Invited Talk
Recently, I was invited to deliver my talk on the openness (open data and open science) in the context of Society 5.0 during the International Conference and Expo on Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials. It was…
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The Open Data Daily (PSI Monitor) and World Health Organization (WHO) recommend my article “Smarter Open Government Data for Society 5.0”
The Open Data Daily (PSI Monitor), World Health Organization, Europe PMC and FreeMedArt recommend my recently published article Smarter Open Government Data for Society 5.0: Are Your Open Data Smart Enough? (Sensors 2021, 21(15),…
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The world’s largest and most significant open data portal data.europa.eu publishes news article devoted to my scientific article
Feel honored, glad and surprised to notice that the world’s largest and most significant open data portal data.europa.eu, whose strategic objective is to promote access to open data band to increase their global value,…
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Anastasija Nikiforova, PhD 