Tech innovators across Spain producing 3D respirators
A critical shortage of medical respirators in Spain during the coronavirus crisis is leading healthcare professionals across the country to make heartbreaking…
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Gov’t can tackle disorder with digital networks control
A new legislative decree published Tuesday in the government’s BOE official gazette has given Spain’s Economy Ministry the right in exceptional circumstances…
Government moves to pre-empt Catalan digital Republic
The government of acting President Pedro Sánchez has moved to pre-empt efforts by the pro-independence leadership of Catalonia’s regional government to establish…
Misleading Facebook ads linked to PP election campaign
A series of paid ads posted to Facebook and Instagram through fake accounts that are meant to discourage the left-wing vote in…
Spanish teens develop app to protect women from harm
► Team of Madrid-area high school students develop ‘When&Where’ mobile app ► App to protect women, girls from assault reaches finals in…
VOX party’s social media bark more than election bite
? Analysts detect sophisticated, coordinated campaign using fake ‘bot’ accounts ? FB, Twitter, Instagram support built with far-right, Islamophobic messages How to…
Researchers deploy robots, drones in renewables project
Spanish teams at universities and research labs in Andalucía and the Basque Country are joining with other researchers in France, Ireland, Portugal,…
NGO sponsors child malnutrition photo diagnosis app
University researchers working with the Spanish affiliate of international non-governmental aid agency Action Against Hunger (ACT International) have developed a breakthrough mobile…
Solar plant design app wins Santander ‘Explorer’ award
A software app designed by a Spanish technology startup that enables the design and optimization of large-scale photovoltaic solar plants in just…
Tech startup promotes UN sustainability compliance
A Spanish tech startup that launched last year in the United States and Mexico is now coming home to Spain with the…
Sánchez showcases progressive centre-Left government
► New cabinet includes 11 women, 6 men and first openly gay ministers ► ► Sánchez restructures ministries, brings 5 independents onto…
Spanish electric motosharing service eyes U.S. market
Spain’s electric motorscooter sharing service Muving, currently operating in 11 cities nationwide, is following up an expansive first year of operation with…
Mobile apps win humanitarian awards at MWC 2018
► Cruz Roja awards recognize emergency, volunteering, child-protection apps ► The Cruz Roja Española (Spanish Red Cross) on Tuesday presented the organization’s…
‘Gitanas avanzando’ website gives voice to Roma women
► Website created through EDYTA training program for vulnerable women ► Spain’s community of gitanas (‘gypsy’ or Roma women) has been given…
Spanish youth ranked near top of 2017 ‘Wellbeing Index’
► But jobless rate, low education spending seen as drag on youth’s futures ► Young people in Spain find themselves ranked relatively…
Caixa rewards innovative approaches to social problems
• Projects tackle gender violence, poverty, social exclusion, hate speech & more • Social Innovation awards carry 15K euros prize money for…
JoinIn solidarity app begins global rollout in Spain
• New mobile app to connect users with socially responsible causes worldwide • JoinIn platform aims for 10k users, 5k participating NGOs…
Orange to honor ‘Women & Technology’ again in 2017
• Telecoms multinational Orange opens nominations for 2nd annual prize • Award honors women who develop technology solutions to better society Spain’s Fundación…
Telefonica launches ‘OpenSpain’ to assist refugees
• OpenSpain project provides online assistance to refugees arriving to Spain • Web portal provides information on work, housing, transport & legal…
NGO supports mobile app to fight child malnutrition
• ‘Acción contra el Hambre’ & Complutense team build photo diagnosis app • Call for help in beta-testing in Spain prior to…
Youth competition against gender violence launched
• Fundación Mutua Madrileña competition open to students at all levels • Submissions can be made online at nosdueleatodos.com through May 22nd…
Startups take on climate change in Valencia
• Fifteen startups selected in annual Climate-KIC Accelerator program • Ideas deemed economically viable, innovative in approach to climate change Fifteen business…
Wildlife group uses GPS to track extraordinary saga of native Iberian lynx reintroduced into Spain’s wild
• Near-extinct native species thriving on epic journeys following re-insertion • An Iberian lynx named Kentaro that was released in Toledo in…
Barcelona-based NGO launches mobile application to help locate, assist homeless sleeping on streets
• Arrels foundation helped more than 600 homeless find shelter during 2015 • Barcelona-based Fundación Arrels has launched a mobile app for…
Facebook now considers bullfights objectionable content, along with hunting, pornography & bullying
• Global social network’s move hailed by Spanish animal-rights advocates • Facebook has decided to run the risk of alienating bullfighting aficionados…
Telefonica’s ‘Think Big’ program picks 310 finalists for funding of projects with positive social impact
• Annual program funds, mentors young social entrepreneurs across Spain • Spain’s Telefonica Foundation has announced the selection of 310 finalists in…
Andalusia reaches deal with private firm to develop drones to help track, save endangered Iberian lynx
• Drone program to replace collar-fitted radio devices used to track animals • Conservationist efforts helped increase local lynx population to 327…
Podemos leader says technology, social media increasingly important to democracy in Spain
• Iglesias says younger voters’ use of social media key to Podemos campaign • Investment in renewables could create more than 300,000…
Social entrepreneurship program announces nine finalist projects in global ‘H2O Challenge’ program
• Nine global projects selected as finalists in social-impact program • Aguas de Valencia, Pangea, Impact Hub Madrid, IE Business School sponsors…
Spanish startup honored for developing mobile app to help audio-visually impaired enjoy cinema
• Whatscine awarded Queen Letizia Prize for Accessibility Technologies • Madrid-based tech startup delivers in-theatre movie enjoyment to disabled A Spanish technology…
Barcelona-based Worldreader e-literacy program wins 2015 Meffy Awards for mobile innovation
• Awards for ‘Innovation in Education’ & ‘Mobile First’ technology • Worldreader promotes e-literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa & worldwide The London-based Mobile…