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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 Open Data Portal is free and can be reused freely, always respecting the conditions indicated by each license.
In the case of the Cabildo de Tenerife Open Data Portal, the Creative Commons Zero license will generally be applied to the Cabildo de Tenerife datasets, which means that in this case the data is belonging to the public domain and without restrictions. The application license can be consulted for each set of the collection.
For more information on licensing, 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.