A graphic that says Happy New Year 2022

A Year in Open Data Manchester 2021 – a rather busy one indoors…

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

Text reading 'data coops' repeated in orange and blue

Introducing the new Data Cooperatives Working Group – in collaboration with Aapti Institute

At ODM, we’re very interested in understanding how best to help people get control of their data – and since 2014 – we’ve been exploring the century-old idea of a

Report and video: what we’ve learned about designing a data cooperative

Open Data Manchester has been working with the Carbon Co-op for the past year to develop and test a data-cooperative model for small, energy cooperatives like theirs. The project was

How to Build a Data Cooperative with Astha Kapoor, Hays Witt and Julian Tait

We know that increasing amounts of data exist identifying who we are and what we do, much of which is controlled and used by private companies, so there is growing