The voices of marginalised people are seldom represented within technical applications. Mapping systems for planning the built environment aren’t always inclusive of their lived experiences. Bias is baked into how
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As part of Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester creates monthly bulletins that showcase some of the data being collected for the project, including the work done directly by community volunteers.
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As part of Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester is creating a monthly environmental data bulletin that showcases some of the local data being collected for the project, including the work
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This blogpost was prompted by a Twitter conversation regarding the release of the recent All-Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics report Our Place Our Data – Involving People in Data and
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Open Data Manchester is collaborating with Catalyst, part of The National Lottery Community Fund COVID-19 Digital Response, to understand how the use of data is transforming the social sector. We know
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As part of the Our Streets Chorlton project, Open Data Manchester will be carrying out data monitoring and collection, including air quality measurements and traffic surveys. We are helping to
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We know that increasing amounts of data exist identifying who we are and what we do, much of which is controlled and used by private companies, so there is growing
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We launched a series of three public events where local, national and international experts delved into some of the huge questions we must ask ourselves in a world that’s increasingly
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Clean air is vital for healthy, happy living and as part of the Our Streets Chorlton project, Open Data Manchester will be measuring air quality using two Earthsense Zephyr solar-powered
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Our homes are responsible for about a quarter of UK energy consumption – and so making UK housing more energy efficient is a big part of the government’s net-zero carbon