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Map of Trafford featuring the words that come to mind when women and girls describe the (safety of the) area.
07
Feb
Community, Projects

Right to the Streets – an initial look at residents’ perceptions

Posted on February 7, 2023February 7, 2023 by Toyebat Adewale

As part of the ‘Right to the Streets’ project, Open Data Manchester are running a series of walkabouts – or experiential mapping workshops – in the Old Trafford, Gorse Hill

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Posted in Community, Projects  |  Tagged Community, Community Mapping, Mapping, Right to the streets, Safer Streets, Survey, Trafford
A map of Trafford covered in post-it notes of different colours.
05
Jan
Events, Projects

Walking through Trafford: An Exercise in Community Mapping

Posted on January 5, 2023January 16, 2023 by Toyebat Adewale

As part of the ‘Right to the Streets’ project, Open Data Manchester are conducting walkabout workshops in the Old Trafford, Gorse Hill and Firswood area. Last month we had our first

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Posted in Events, Projects  |  Tagged Community, Events, Safer Streets, Safer Streets Trafford 189 Comments
Map of LSOAs covered in the Project
22
Nov
Projects

Right to the Streets: callout for walkabout participants

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Sam Milsom

As part of the Right to the Streets project (previously known as Safer Streets Trafford), Open Data Manchester will be running workshops and organised walks to map the Gorse Hill,

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Posted in Projects  |  Tagged Joy Diversion, Lexicon of Experience, Mapping, mapping experience, Mapping Mobility, Right to the streets 30 Comments
A white person delivering a talk to an audience, the slide displayed reads as follows: Will more data about queer lives improve queer communities' encounters with systems?
09
Nov
Developing

Queering Digital Cultures symposium

Posted on November 9, 2022January 5, 2023 by Phoenix Andrews

In late October, I travelled to London for the Queering Digital Cultures symposium, which aimed to interrogate therelationship between queerness and digital systems of knowledge production. The speakers and audience

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Posted in Developing  |  Tagged A New Direction, Community, event
People working collaboratively using post-it notes. Their arms and torsos are visible. They are sat at a table with refreshments.
07
Nov
Projects

Understanding the motivations and needs of volunteers who get people online

Posted on November 7, 2022April 11, 2023 by Sam Milsom

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

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Posted in Projects  |  Tagged Community, Digital exclusion, Local communities, Training, User needs, Volunteering
Dark black and white image of the Open Data Manchester data loom
03
Nov
News, Open Data Manchester

Our first strategy is released

Posted on November 3, 2022November 6, 2022 by Julian Tait

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

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Posted in News, Open Data Manchester  |  Tagged corporate, development, Open Data Manchester, strategy 4 Comments
Woman wearing a hi-viz vest that has 'Data Gatherer' written on the back
31
Oct
Projects

Creating a Community Data Handbook

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Sam Milsom

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

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Posted in Projects  |  Tagged Active Travel, Community Data Handbook, Data Expedition, Data for Communities, Our Streets Chorlton, School Streets
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29
Sep
Projects

Open 3P: An open standard for the plastic packaging industry

Posted on September 29, 2022September 29, 2022 by Julian Tait

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,

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Posted in Projects  |  Tagged Open 3P, Plastic packaging, Plastic Packaging Portal, Plastic waste, PPP
Portraits of Shanice Blair, Matt Pullen and Doctor Phoenix Andrews.
22
Aug
Uncategorized

Meet our new team members!

Posted on August 22, 2022August 22, 2022 by Sam Milsom

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

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Posted in Uncategorized 4 Comments
Data Cooperative post it attached to glass wall
19
Aug
Community, Events, Projects

Data cooperatives: the journey so far

Posted on August 19, 2022August 22, 2022 by Julian Tait

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

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Posted in Community, Events, Projects  |  Tagged Aapti Institute, Data Cooperative Handbook, Data Cooperatives, Data Cooperatives Working Group, event 27 Comments
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