The Maldita.es section specialised in data journalism received this award for the report MAPA COVID-19: consulta cuántos casos de coronavirus hay y cómo está la ocupación de tu hospital’.
In November 2020, Maldito Dato published this tool with data on hospital occupancy and potential saturation due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Ministry of Health was not publishing this information, so Maldita.es compiled it from the autonomous communities that made it public and requested it from the rest. This made it possible to learn about hospital occupancy in nine autonomous communities and on the island of Menorca — the largest compilation published up to that point.
The second prize in the data journalism category was awarded to Storydata journalist Laura Navarro Soler for ‘De cero a 48.000 euros: quién cobra cuánto en las alcaldías de Castilla y León’.
The Datos Abiertos competition organised by the Junta de Castilla y León also granted awards in different categories:
Ideas category:
- First prize: APP SOLAR-CYL by Miguel de Simón Martín, Ana María Díez Suárez, Alberto González Martínez, Álvaro de la Puente Gil and Jorge Blanes Peiró.
- Second prize: Donde Te Esperan by Mario Varona Bueno.
Products and Services category:
- First prize: Repuéblame by Guido García Bernardo and Javier García Bernardo.
- Second prize: Plagrícola by José María Pérez Ramos.
- Third prize: disCAPACIDAD.es by Luis Hernández Fuentevilla.
- Student prize: Ruta x Ruta x Castilla y León by Adrián Arroyo Calle.
The jury that awarded the prizes was chaired by Antonio Ibáñez Pascual, Head of the Transparency and Information Reuse Service at the Directorate General for Transparency and Good Governance of the Junta de Castilla y León, and included Jesús Vaquerizo Aragón, from the Institute for Business Competitiveness of Castilla y León; Olga Quirós Bronet, Secretary General of the Multisectoral Information Association; Manuel Barrio Solórzano, Director of the School of Computer Engineering at the University of Valladolid; Pedro Lechuga Mallo, Dean of the Professional Association of Journalists of Castilla y León; and Ángela Bernardo Álvarez, from the Fundación Ciudadana Civio.