GreaterSport’s Safer Streets project will be delivered in partnership with Trafford Council, Open Data Manchester and a number of local stakeholder groups, running from September 2022 to September 2023. The local community will be at the heart of the project which will be further shaped through a participatory co-design process in the Autumn. We’ve been
The Ethical Dilemma Café was back last month – and we were delighted to there in-person to be part of the event – at Feel Good Club in Manchester, part of MozFest 2022, on 26 and 27 April. The experience was a collaboration between Mozilla, the BBC, the University of Lancaster, the University of Northumbria
Plastics are hugely valuable and useful, delivering massive societal value, Professor Mike Shaver from the University of Manchester explained to the audience gathered for our March Open:Data:Night. But there’s no such thing as sustainable plastics, only sustainable systems. Speaking as the Director of Sustainable Futures, Director of the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub and a Professor of
In December, we summarised what we found out in our first round of workshops researching how plastic packaging gets made. This work will enable us to design a Plastics Packaging Portal (PPP) that will help tackle the UK’s million-tonne plastic-waste problem. This work is backed by Innovate UK. Since then, we have done more stakeholder-engagement workshops to
In July 2020, we were delighted to be part of a team awarded ODI Stimulus Fund money to develop an open data standard for public information about UK recycling. This has since developed into the Innovate UK-backed Plastics Packaging Portal, which will combine two waste standards. Dsposal is still collaborating with us on this, and here data research
In July 2020, we were delighted to be part of a team that was awarded ODI Stimulus Fund money to develop an open data standard for public information about recycling in the UK. This has since developed into the Innovate UK-backed Plastics Packaging Portal, which will combine two waste standards. Dsposal is still collaborating with us on
In July 2020, we were delighted to be part of a team that was awarded ODI Stimulus Fund money to develop an open data standard for public information about local recycling facilities. This has since developed into the Innovate UK-backed Plastics Packaging Portal, which will combine two waste standards. Dsposal is still collaborating with us on this
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 – that of proposals to reform the Human Rights Act (HRA). As with the previous consultation, the proposals in the – Human Rights Act Reform:
As part out Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester has been running monthly ‘Data Chats’, where we explore some of the data collected by the community. In February, we were joined by Blaise Kelly, an air-quality expert and ex-Chorlton resident, who gave a talk on how the weather in Chorlton can affect air pollution, before
The Human Rights Act (1998) is a piece of legislation that defines and protects many of our most basic rights and civil liberties today – from the right to life, to freedom from torture. It evolved out of the struggles and conflicts of the 20th Century and brings to life the United Nations’ Universal Declaration