The Co-Operative movement has come a long way since the modern co-operative movement was established in Rochdale, Greater Manchester in 1844. Now over three million co-operatives employ 280
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Started in 2021, The Data Cooperative Working Group is an informal, international forum for practitioners, researchers and those interested in the development of data cooperatives as a democratic and accountable
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Today, April 16th, we learned that the Greater Manchester Combined Authority has been accepted as an Open Government Partnership (OGP) Local jurisdiction. The GMCA is among a cohort of 54
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The brand-new Open 3P Data Standard is a common language for all commonly used packaging materials – created to help improve the industry’s understanding of packaging being produced – so