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Democratising NERC data for social good: What we’ve discovered so far

Open Data Manchester are supporting an exciting initiative, the Digital Solutions Programme, led by Professor Richard Kingston at the University of Manchester. This post will overview our process, what we have

This is a visual representation of global temperature change from 1850 to 2018 created by climate scientist Ed Hawkins, University of Reading, UK

‘Countdown to COP26 – environmental action powered by data’ – watch the video now

COP26 was billed as the most important global environmental talks since the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) where the ‘Paris Agreement’ was negotiated between 196 parties. This was

How to Build a Data Cooperative with Astha Kapoor, Hays Witt and Julian Tait

We know that increasing amounts of data exist identifying who we are and what we do, much of which is controlled and used by private companies, so there is growing

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Watch the series: Politics, Policy and the Algorithm – how automated decision-making is shaping our lives

We launched a series of three public events where local, national and international experts delved into some of the huge questions we must ask ourselves in a world that’s increasingly