On Saturday 26 September, we brought another group of people together from all over the North West for a day of exploring, wandering and general high jinks. We have been
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Join us next week to hear how data can help us respond better to UK wildfires After a summer of record temperatures, A&E admissions and time without rainfall, it is
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Open Data Camp is an annual, volunteer-led, two-day unconference that brings together the open data community from across the UK and further afield. It is a place to showcase the
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Over the last three weeks we have organised two events to help people respond to the UK Government’s ongoing calls for evidence and consultations. We have now published read outs
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Most of us now check a phone rather than a timetable. Where’s the bus, how long until it comes, is the tram running, what’s the quickest way across town. It
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The Data Cooperative Working Group met in July to explore the relationship between data cooperativism and ‘Indigenous Data Sovereignty’. In many non-Indigenous contexts, data cooperatives focus on the rights of
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We hear about the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) all the time. It appears in government announcements, funding bids, policy papers and local authority strategies. It helps shape decisions about
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In 2010, we published an article asking “why open data”. Back then, open data was still a relatively new idea. A small number of cities had started publishing transport feeds,
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Open Data Manchester has submitted four responses to the UK’s National Action Plan (NAP7) consultation, exploring how openness, accountability and participation can keep pace with changes in public service delivery,
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We are not short of data. There is more information than ever about climate, health, and our communities. But making sense of it, and actually using it, is still surprisingly