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GESIS started the dialogue with one of the eleven State Ministries in North Rhine-Westphalia

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Created on Thursday, 23 July 2015 15:24

The Ministry which is responsible for the policy issues regarding families, children, youth, culture and sports, supports the digital strategy “Open.NRW”, which was initiated by the Government in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). The digital hub for this strategy located at https://open.nrw and is the data and information portal which addresses (a) open data, (b) dialogue, and (c) collaboration for all actors (ministries, local authorities, citizens, etc.) in NRW. This means the State together with the Ministries, cities and local authorities needs to "make sense" of the data in the portal. The aforementioned Ministry has already started the process of publishing Open Data, but this publishing is one important step. External actors can find scenarios where the data is beneficial, and one example of a useful application is a mobile app where families can find the nearest day-care facility for their children in Düsseldorf using geo-location data. In May, GESIS began a dialogue with this State Ministry looking at potential scenarios how SENSE4US can provide benefit in the areas of information retrieval and decision-making.