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In 2013, Puebla was flirting with an idea in innovation and design: applying to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. For several years, together with the municipal government of Puebla, civil society, academia, and industry, we worked on creating a Roadmap. Several projects were defined that could successfully nominate Puebla within...
I want to create a Web Service, what are my options? A couple of months ago, we asked a question that more than one developer has faced: What are my options for creating a web service or web API? I researched and presented at Devnights Summer edition 2016. I know,...
I will visit Mexico and would like to advise on the design of collaborative platforms on the Internet As some of you know, I’ve been in South Korea for a few months. Since September, I’ve been based at the Web Engineering Lab, rediscovering and developing my academic life. Maybe I...
When I was working with Open Data, one of the concerns that persisted in publishing open data was the creation of structured data that could be described to find relationships. In fact, since the Web was created, Tim Berners Lee had the vision of making a system where interconnected information...
Seizing Opportunities This blog post I write today is to give thanks. As of July, I left two organizations I had collaborated with full-time for the past two years: Cívica Digital and Codeando México. Along the way, I met many people through collaboration and I am very grateful. Don’t worry,...
Intelligence and automation for newsrooms On April 18 and 19, we had the opportunity to attend an event sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation and the Knight Foundation: The Open News 2016 Code Convening in Austin, TX. This initiative consists of creating Open Source Software solutions for journalism teams. The teams...
A couple of months ago I met a group of hackers, now friends, who had an Internet video blog that I really like for its format and content: Hackertalk. Martín, Abraham, Fran, Diego, Nacho and several more friends, throughout several episodes interview some hackers and leaders of initiatives where they...
I thought of checking what comes up when I type my name in Google and I found my name in a magazine: Avianca en Revista. A magazine distributed on flights of the airline between several South American countries such as: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico,...
Today we presented Datamx at the Innovation in Transparency Award 2015, where we were awarded first place in the category of Individuals and Civil Associations. It was an honor to share part of the experience we learned in about 2 years of work, and we wanted to emphasize telling the...
In May 2013 we announced the launch of the civic open data platform in the country. Our goals were for it to become an autonomous space for publishing and consuming data, independent of any government or organization, and to be a ready-to-use tool for institutions with good intentions to open...
Just a few days ago, AbreLATAM 2014 took place, on September 30th of this year. We had already had the opportunity to participate in the event that happened in Uruguay in 2013. This year, 9 out of 10 people from the Codeando México team were present to collaborate. AbreLATAM 2014...
My name is Noé Domínguez, I currently work in software development and integration in Mexico. The purpose of this blog is to share some of the experiences I’ve accumulated over the past years while developing my profession and also some of the challenges I’ve faced. Currently, I work at Codeando...
A couple of years ago, while taking a Web Development course in college, I had the freedom to choose which programming language and tools I wanted to learn web programming with. The only restriction we had was to make an application that met all the principles we had been learning...
It’s been a loooong time since I last wrote, honestly I’ve been very busy these days. I’ve had a somewhat mixed experience about my stay. The truth is I’ve had to work very hard, like never before, and unlike Mexico, the stress isn’t just concentrated when exam week approaches but...
At this moment, some may be wondering about what is happening in South Korea and my impression of what happened. I was leaving my Artificial Intelligence class, had just finished a ninety-minute exam, and hadn’t had breakfast. I left the Computer Science department building to eat at my favorite cafeteria,...
The first night we slept like normal people in Seoul was Thursday, August 26th. Honestly, I was very happy with the place recommended to us at the tourist information center, as it was very clean, pleasant, and as they say in Mexico City: it had a vibe. The place is...