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
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Jan
Jan
Over the past year, Open Data Manchester has been carrying out community-led data collection, including local traffic counting and air-quality monitoring as part of Our Streets Chorlton. A group of local ‘Data Champions’ has been formed, with more than 40 residents taking part in the programme, including participating in design workshops, training, data collection and
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Jan
Jan
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 UK, we spent most of the first half of the year indoors, where the novelty of Zoom quizzes had long worn off. During the summer,
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Dec
Dec
We are delighted to announce that we’re one of eight north-west organisations who’ve been awarded a share of £50,000 from the Co-op Foundation, supported by Luminate, to further our work on ensuring that digital and data systems enhance people’s lives. The money is being used to fund a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Data
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Dec
Dec
In October, we started bringing together people who may be affected by the UK government’s data reforms proposed in the consultation Data: A New Direction – and that means everyone – to discuss the changes and formulate their own responses. After our own public event, which 60 people registered for, we opened up the resources that we
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Dec
Dec
In August, we revealed that we’d joined a consortium of organisations backed by Innovate UK and dedicated to dealing with the UK’s million-tonne plastic-packaging waste problem. Since then, we’ve been working on developing and delivering the initial stages of the Plastics Packaging Portal, which includes: a new open standard for plastic-packaging data an extension of
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Dec
Dec
As part of Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester has been carrying out data monitoring and collection, including local air-quality measurements and traffic surveys. Over the past year, we have organised a number of resident-led, manual traffic counts carried out by volunteers that we’ve trained from the community. Each month, we also get together with
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Nov
Nov
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 where the long-term goal of limiting the global temperature rise to 2 degrees (ideally 1.5) above pre-industrial levels was agreed. However – we’re still falling
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Oct
Oct
As part of Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester has been carrying out data monitoring and collection, including local air-quality measurements and traffic surveys. Each month, we get together with local people for a ‘data chat’, a friendly and informal exploration of some of the data the community has been collecting – to explore what
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Sep
Sep
As part of Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester has been carrying out data collection and monitoring, including taking air-quality measurements and doing traffic surveys. We’ve been using this to create monthly environmental data bulletins that showcase some of the local data being collected for the project. For these bulletins, we’ve been including a localised