Open Data Manchester are working with Manchester City Council on a programme of work that will help understand how digital exclusion is impacting local communities, how to support the people who volunteer and to help build capacity in community organisations to develop a user needs approach to their programmes. The first part of the programme
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Thirteen years seems like a long time to create a strategy for our organisation, but we think that Open Data Manchester isn’t a normal organisation. It started out as an idea formed from a group of people who thought that by making data open and accessible people could understand more about their communities and the
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Open Data Manchester is developing a Community Data Handbook – an open resource that will enable communities to carry out their own data projects. Throughout 2021, as part of Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester helped to organise community-led data collection, including local traffic counting and air quality monitoring. More than 40 local volunteers participated in
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After over a year of development we are delighted to launch the Open 3P data standard for the plastic packaging industry. Created in collaboration with our project partners Dsposal, OPRL, Recoup and Ecosurety and supported by Innovate UK’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) fund. The standard allows all actors within the plastic packaging value chain,
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Over the past couple of months we have been recruiting with the help of Collaborative Future, and are really pleased to welcome three new team members! Shanice Blair is our new Office Manager, and is currently completing an MA in Intercultural Communication at the University of Manchester. Before moving to Manchester last September, she graduated
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Over the past few years we have been interested in how cooperative organisations can help groups of people and organisations better manage their data so that it can return value for themselves, their communities and wider society. Misuse of data Data has the potential to help solve some of the biggest challenges that society is
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Open Data Manchester are supporting an exciting initiative, the Digital Solutions Programme, led by Professor Richard Kingston at the University of Manchester. This post will overview our process, what we have learnt so far and how you can get involved in the next stages of this impactful initiative. The initiative runs over the next 4 years and
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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
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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
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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