We are off to SPC Impact 2024

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

How to create infrastructure for environmental data

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

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Join us in shaping the future of packaging data

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

Help us shape how data is used in Greater Manchester in 2023 and beyond

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

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Watch our Right to the Streets videos to see how we do community data projects

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

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We’re welcoming three incredible new board members to ODM!

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

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MozFest 2023: asking people to part with data in the shadow of debates about AI

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

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Rebooting the Declaration for Responsible and Intelligent Data Practice

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

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Data, participation and representation in action – watch back now!

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