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Essentially, it is an initiative to make available to the society in general the data collected, produced and disseminated by the Cabildo de Tenerife, by the public sector of the Cabildo de Tenerife and other local entities of the island of Tenerife.

On the Cabildo de Tenerife Open Data Portal, the datasets are available in open format to facilitate the reusage and dissemination of themselves. The objective is to give the opportunity to citizens, companies, researchers and other public institutions to use the resources published in this portal, taking advantage of the economic and social opportunity offered by these resources.
Open data are the data collected that can be "freely consulted, downloaded, used and redistributed by any person or company without restriction of use and which at most, depending on the type of license, must be credited to the original source and disseminated in the same way as it is released" (Open Knowledge Foundation definition).
Yes, all the data available on the Cabildo de Tenerife's Open Data portal is free of charge and can be reused freely, always complying with the terms indicated in each licence.

At present, the data is published, unless otherwise indicated, under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence. This allows the data to be copied, redistributed, transformed and adapted even for commercial purposes, provided that authorship is properly acknowledged, a link to the licence is included and it is indicated whether changes have been made.

Please refer to the details of each dataset for the applicable licence. For more information, please visit the Creative Commons website and the Open Data Commons website.
Only data that meets certain requirements is published openly. In case the data is confidential or has personal aspects, it is not included in the data catalogue because dissemination is strictly forbidden by law.

The Cabildo de Tenerife is committed to working for the opening of the most possible sets. For this reason, if you have a dataset that you would like to see published on the website, simply send us a proposal using the form provided in the Suggest section, which is located in the Participate menu.