Sophie Walker writes about her upcoming trip with Tom Passmore to attend SPC Impact 2024 in New Orleans… April sees Tom and I heading to New Orleans for one of the packaging sector’s annual highlights – SPC Impact. This year’s theme is Less Carbon Better Packaging and the agenda is absolutely jam-packed with high-quality
Increasingly algorithms are being used to automate decision-making in the public sector. Sometimes they are used to support humans to make final decisions, sometimes decision-making is entirely automated. These systems can bring benefits, but they also come with risks so it’s important that these systems are used in an appropriate way. We believe that public
Over the last 18 months Open Data Manchester has been conducting user needs research as part of the development of the Digital Solutions Hub for the Natural Environment Research Council. The project led by University of Manchester, aimed to understand the needs, challenges and barriers to the use of environmental data and the insights gained
Are you passionate about the role of standardised, sharable packaging data in unlocking the circular economy? Then Open 3P needs you… Our vision is for a more circular economy in the packaging sector through the development of standardised data that enables resource and process efficiencies, benefiting people, planet and our future prosperity. The free-to-use Open
Data, and the systems that underpin it, are transforming our world. Our ability to create, collect, transmit, analyse and store data has opened up incredible new possibilities. But it has also bought significant challenges and risks. It’s vital that we recognise these changes and work together to realise the benefits, while countering the risks. It
Since October last year, we’ve been working to understand more about how women and girls in Trafford experience where they live. With Trafford Council and GreaterSport, Right to the Streets aims to help make this group feel more safe and get active. You can check out our events page for the latest RTTS events happening
We are absolutely delighted to welcome Shaf Choudry, Tracey Gyateng and Phillipa Nazari as the newest members of the Open Data Manchester Board of Directors. Shaf says he’s a “product of Manchester” and is one of the pair behind The Riz Test, which took inspiration from the Bechdel Test and a speech about diversity made by
In late June, Mozilla hosted its first in-person MozFest for the first time in three years – MozFest 2023! Taking place from 19 to 21 June in beautiful Amsterdam, MozFest 2023 saw more than 300 researchers, activists and civil-society workers come from all over the world to discuss, discover and explore issues and ethics related
Back in September 2021 we launched the Declaration for Responsible and Intelligent Data Practice – a shared vision for data in Greater Manchester. It was co-designed over a period of 18 months with data practitioners and experts, plus all sorts of other people from public, private, academic, civil-society and voluntary organisations within Greater Manchester and
Earlier this month, Open Data Manchester welcomed three practitioners who care about people and place to talk about where data fits when we’re thinking about participation and representation of local people. Sobia Rafiq is a co-founder of Sensing Local, which works across India to help people fill big data gaps that can often lead to