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ODM Impact Series 7: Exploring Cooperative Models for Energy Data Management

Welcome to the seventh instalment of our blog series showcasing Open Data Manchester’s decade of data-driven change. In this series, we’re diving into eight case studies that demonstrate the real-world

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Data Cooperative Working Group

Started in 2021, The Data Cooperative Working Group is an informal, international forum for practitioners, researchers and those interested in the development of data cooperatives as a democratic and accountable

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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

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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