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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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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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
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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 that we can reduce its environmental footprint. In September last year, after more than a year of collaborative work, we unveiled a world-first data standard to
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Representatives from the Institute of Government, Engage Britain, Open Data Institute, and Women’s Equality Wales, are amongst an unprecedented intake to the UK’s leading civil society voice for open government. The nine appointments (listed below) to the UK Open Government Network (UK OGN) steering committee will join representatives from equivalent networks in Scotland, Northern Ireland
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In April, we were excited to share initial findings from our user research into potential users of the Natural Environment Research Council’s forthcoming Digital Solutions Hub. This research involved workshops across the UK, speaking with nearly 100 people with an interest in working with environmental data. We asked about what they need from environmental data,
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Over the last few years as people have become more aware of the power of data and how it can impact people’s lives both positively and negatively, there has been need to think more ethically about how we build systems and use data, especially when the impacts of bad data use impact vulnerable and marginalised
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Following the launch of the ground-breaking open standard for plastic packaging data, Open 3P, in September 2022, the consortium behind the project has secured additional funding from Innovate UK for Phase 2 work to expand the standard and develop a data-sharing platform. The Open 3P standard provides a common framework to help all the stakeholders involved
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Open Data Manchester is running a series of virtual and in-person workshops to help the GMCA prioritise the actions needed to implement the Greater Manchester Information Strategy. The Greater Manchester Information Strategy was adopted in January 2022 by the Greater Manchester Information Board, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), and the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. It
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As part of the ‘Right to the Streets’ project, Open Data Manchester are running a series of walkabouts – or experiential mapping workshops – in the Old Trafford, Gorse Hill & Stretford area of north Trafford, which aim to map places visited and routes taken from the lived experience of women and girls who live