We repeatedly say how valuable access to open data is for economic development. Thanks to public data made available in an open form, entrepreneurs introduce a number of revolutionary solutions to the market.
We repeatedly say how valuable access to open data is for economic development. Thanks to public data made available in an open form, entrepreneurs introduce a number of revolutionary solutions to the market.
In an earlier publication we focused mainly on the transport and urban transport sector, today we will talk about global examples from other sectors.
Think Dirty® – Application for checking the composition of cosmetics
The application analyses the composition of thousands of cosmetics and personal care products from Canada and the United States. Users of the application receive information about all harmful substances contained in the products selected for analysis, so they can choose the safest solutions available on the market. The revolutionary system increases consumer awareness by preventing cancer.
EUssentials – An indispensable part of the European journalist and PR professional
The system contains complete contact details of Members of the European Parliament, Commissioners, European Ombudsmen and cabinet members. The application greatly enhances the work of journalists, PR specialists or MEPs themselves by reporting in real time on all the activities of Members of the European Parliament and Commissioners and on news channels. In addition, it provides access to MEPs’ calendar and location data for each EU building in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg.
PublicBI – comprehensive overview of public procurement
A system dedicated to entrepreneurs tracking trends and the latest opportunities in the public procurement sector. The driving force behind the PublicBI is data from the TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) service, the online version of the “Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union”, which publishes 520,000 public procurement notices every year.
GoodGuide – a compendium of consumer knowledge
An American application that evaluates products for their health and environmental friendliness. The user easily searches for a product or component of interest or scans the barcode. Unfortunately, the option of scanning the codes is only available to American users, however, due to the unified composition of products of popular brands, the application proves to be equally useful for European users.
The solutions quoted in the article are only the nucleus of global solutions based on open data. We will certainly return to the topic of the most interesting systems already functioning or being constructed in future publications.
