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This article will be published by FutureEverything in association with Cornerhouse in a book for FutureEverything 2011 delegates. There is a rich tradition of profound artistic enquiry engaging in new media technologies going back to the 1960s. Artists are coding, sculpting, visualising, sounding out new kinds of art object, and new possibilities for participation, new [...]
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Tagged with: Digital art, futureeverything, invisible audience
Licensing is a subject that comes up a lot with Open Data. The licence is a key component of the dataset. It defines the use and liability and it shapes how or what innovation will come from data release. As mentioned in the title I am no expert in this area and I would appreciate [...]
Posted in: Blog, innovationBlog
Tagged with: Creative Commons, digital innovation, Innovation, Licensing, open data, opendatacities
Yesterday I attended an event looking at transport and Open Data. It was organised by the Transport KTN and was attended by a very engaged group of transport professionals. Victoria Moody and myself did a presentation on DataGM with other presentations by David Hytch of GMPTE, Jonathan Raper of Placr.com and Razia Ahamed and Richard [...]
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Tagged with: command and control, Data, DataGM, human behaviour, open data, opendatacities, transportation, user experience
It has been hard work over the last few months for the DataGM team. It is a conversation, it is explaining benefits, allaying fears and sometimes handholding. The advent of DataGM has come at a time when the public sector is under huge stress and for some, comprehending the benefits of Open Data when their [...]
Posted in: 2011, Blog, innovationBlog
Tagged with: Data, DataGM, Innovation, open data, opendatacities
One of the focusses of the Open Data Cities work is to encourage regional educational establishments to programme Open Data activity. There is a need to encourage service and application development skills and importantly, until the market for Open Data applications can sustain itself, more applications and services beyond ‘proof of concept’ need to be [...]
Posted in: Blog, innovationBlog
Tagged with: application design, DataGM, Innovation, Lancaster University, open data, opendatacities, workshop
GMPTE have been a big supporter of the Open Data work that we have been doing from the Open Data Cities project to DataGM. The DataGM team of Victoria Moody, Phil Welch and myself met John Garner, David Hytch and Craig Berry to see how things were progressing with the fledgling DataGM – Greater Manchester [...]
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Tagged with: DataGM, hackday, meeting, open data, opendatacities, transit, transportation
The meeting with the Greater Manchester Travel Unit (GMTU) and Greater Manchester Traffic Control Unit (GMTCU) like all meetings with data holders was of interest as it was a chance to see some new public data and how it was being used. GMTU and GMTCU look after the road system in Greater Manchester and create [...]
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Tagged with: DataGM, meeting, open data, opendatacities, transit, transportation
Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA), FutureEverything, DataGM and Open Data Manchester will be running a series of thematic hackneys to encourage the developer community to get down and dirty with some of the cool data that is being released on DataGM. The series provisionally called ‘Lovely Data’ will kick off on Saturday 9th April at [...]
Posted in: Blog, innovationBlog
Tagged with: data visualisation, DataGM, hackday, mdda, open data, opendatacities, transit, transportation
Paper written for the Manchester Developmental Panel on Innovation (New Economy and The Northern Way, 23-24 Feburary 2011) Question – How does infrastructure become more innovative? As cities become programmable, sentient, so the interface between physical and digital systems becomes increasingly significant. How does infrastructure become more innovative? Deployed infrastructure needs to be tested, reliable, [...]
Posted in: Blog
Tagged with: Infrastructure, Innovation
This week (Monday 21 Feb 2011) saw the launch of DataGM – The Greater Manchester Datastore, a partnership between Trafford Council and FutureEverything that developed out of FutureEverything’s Open Data Cities project. The event announced the first open data published, introduced the website, and consolidated the political commitment to DataGM. It is a soft launch, [...]
Posted in: Blog, innovationBlog
Tagged with: DataGM, futureeverything, manchester, open data, opendatacities
