Big+Open Data: Some applications for a Smartcity

The way of thinking on Big Data, Open Data and their use by organizations or individuals has been a trending topic over the last few years. Big Data deals with collecting, storing, analyzing and putting data in value. Big, medium and small enterprises want to include information technologies in their management and decision processes. At the same time, movements about rights on public data have increased their presence and force. Data from governments must be open. Every day, more and more cities and countries are opening their data. Open Data has emerged as a new paradigm for the public service provision model with a special role in Smart City. The main goal of Big and Open Data in a Smart City is to develop systems which can be useful for citizens. In this work we analyze how both private enterprises and governments manage to improve their data value by combining private and public datasets and we give some examples of our work in this area.