Strategies

Update 29.12.2025

Learn about all the current digital strategies, as well as their respective action plans.

Introduction

The National Data Strategy is intrinsically linked to its European counterpart, the European Data Strategy, which aims to create a single European data space – a true single market for data, open to data from around the world – where personal and non-personal data, including sensitive commercial data, are secure, and where businesses have easy access to an almost infinite volume of high-quality industrial data to drive growth and create value, while simultaneously minimising the human carbon and environmental footprint.

Ambition in Portugal

The ambition of the National Data Strategy is to ensure that Portugal is among the leading countries participating in the European data ecosystem, unlocking its value and creating new services and products in Portugal and beyond its borders.

Vision for the National Data Strategy

Open data

The National Data Strategy will continue and strengthen national initiatives related to open data and the reuse of public sector information. The general principles are set out in Law No. 68/2021 (as amended by Rectification Declaration No. 31/2021), which transposes Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of 20 June 2019 into national law.

This strategic pillar has been implemented through the open data initiative promoted by the Agency for Administrative Modernisation (Agência para a Modernização Administrativa, AMA), via the dados.gov portal, which already provides a wide range of datasets from different public bodies, available for open access. The clear objective is for these data to act as a driver of economic, social and environmental development.

Other data-sharing models

While the previous pillar focuses on the circulation of data from Public Administration bodies to other public entities and to private organisations, data flows can also occur in the opposite direction. This can improve, for example, evidence-based public policies, public transport systems, cleaner cities, and many other areas.

However, this strategy must go further by bringing together a diverse range of actors – including public authorities, the scientific community, economic agents and citizens – into a single national and European ecosystem. This will enable an almost unlimited number of interactions aimed at increasing the availability and quality of data, beyond open data alone.

Focus on interoperability

Equally important are the interactions and connections between this strategy and other technological strategies or initiatives, whether already in place or yet to be defined. One example is the Public Administration Interoperability initiative, implemented through the iAP platform, which provides an easy and integrated way to deliver cross-cutting digital public services. The iAP is a key component of the State’s administrative modernisation process and is already widely used by private entities. It offers online services and service management, secure communication between information systems, online payments, and messaging services, among other features. This approach maximises interoperability, both within and across economic sectors, meeting increasingly sophisticated demand and creating a strong foundation for the development of high-value products and services.

Main areas of investment

Alignment with European data policies to ensure the legal certainty needed to accelerate the data economy, support local policy development, and establish a cross-cutting governance framework for data access and use within and across sectors;
Investment in infrastructure and the creation of data processing services within national territory, aligned with European investment frameworks and opportunities;
Strong development of skills in data lifecycle management and data processing services;
Creation of micro data ecosystems and services (common data spaces) in strategic sectors and areas of public interest, combined into a scalable national macro ecosystem with global reach.