An image with a blue background showing the Liverpool City Region

“But why do you do it like that?”: LCR Data Community tackles misunderstanding and misrepresentation in data

Last week, we welcomed Dr Jenny Andrew from the Prospect trade union and Jon Daley from housing regeneration company G2M to the LCR Data Community of Practice to discuss misunderstanding

This is a photograph of graphic cards from a game exploring women and girls' experiences

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

Image showing an out of focus hand weaving loom with someone holding the red yellow and weave in their hands. The loom frame is in focus in the foreground with an Open Data Manchester 24 hour Data People sticker attached. There is text for the Data and Policy - Representation through Participation event in pink in the middle of the image. The date of the event 8th June 2023 is bottom left with a white Open Data Manchester logo bottom right

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

A photograph of the Humans Rights Act 1998 legislation document

Our takeaways on the proposed changes to the Human Rights Act

Building on our previous community consultation into the UK government’s planned reforms to data laws in the UK – we wanted to bring people together to tackle another weighty topic

A graphic that says Happy New Year 2022

A Year in Open Data Manchester 2021 – a rather busy one indoors…

We wrote that 2020 was a year like no other – while 2021 – was one where things felt a bit too much like more of the same. In the

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