Over the past few months we’ve been developing a data cooperative model for small energy cooperatives in partnership with Manchester based Carbon Coop and supported through the ODI’s Data Infrastructure Stimulus Fund. The aim of the project is to explore if a cooperative model of data custodianship could allow members energy data to be collected,
The Declaration for Responsible and Intelligent Data Practice asks Organisations to Pledge to ‘Do Data Better’ for Local People by 2025 Local government and business leaders have come together today behind the idea that we can and must do data better – by pledging their support for the Declaration for Responsible and Intelligent Data Practice.
Tuesday 27th October 2020, 18.30-20.30 GMT, online via Zoom. It’s that time of the year again, so we’ve teamed up with PyData Mcr and HER+Data MCR to bring you another night of DATA HORROR STORIES!! Do you have a tale of bad stats, strange correlations, malicious intent or plain stupidity? Toy Story 2’s production famously
Pick N Mix is our series of free, weekly online workshops run by the ODM community. If you missed the first season, you can find out what topics we covered here or catch up on past sessions over on our Vimeo page. Pick N Mix started during the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK – we
Open Data Manchester has teamed up with a group of Chorlton residents to support their successful bid for just over £200,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund’s brand-new Climate Action Fund to help get their local area ‘back on its feet’ after COVID-19. The Chorlton Climate Action Partnership, led by WalkRideGM in partnership with local
Open Data Manchester is working with two local environmental organisations on open data research and development (R&D) projects after a boost from the Open Data Institute (ODI) Stimulus Fund. With Manchester’s Carbon Co-op, a cooperative that works on projects to help people radically reduce their carbon emissions, ODM will develop a new model for sharing
Do you wish you had more confidence with data? Do you want to use data to better inform what you do? Whatever your data skills, wherever you are, you’re invited to join a Virtual Data Expedition being led online for the first time by Open Data Manchester, with the support of charity data experts 360Giving.
Open Data Manchester’s Pick N Mix programme is a series of free, weekly online workshops run by the ODM community.
March 2020 marked the 10th Open Data Day, an annual celebration of open data, where groups from all over the globe run events to show the benefits of open data. This year over 300 events were organised, exploring climate data, tracking public money flows, open mapping and data for equal development. With many councils across
2019 was a year which has seen Open Data Manchester develop and establish itself with new programmes and partners. The continuation funding from Luminate and the ongoing sponsorship by the Co-op Foundation has enabled us to lay the foundations that will make us operationally and financially more stable. As a not-for-profit Community Interest Company(CIC) our