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February’s Open Data Manchester meeting was combined with Net Tuesday due to date clash. The meeting was given over to the work that Manchester Digital Development Agency is doing with the Manchester Archive. Manchester Archive holds a wealth of artefacts and imagery from Manchester’s past to the present day. It holds many 100,000s of photographs [...]
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Tagged with: archive, manchester, meeting, opendata
Below are some reflections on the themes which emerged during the Digital Creativity Conference presented in Tokyo by the British Council on 12-13 February 2011. I have written elsewhere that today digital culture has burst its banks, and digital organisations and artists can have ever greater impact, and are working in agile, entrepreneurial ways, often [...]
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Tagged with: Art, British Council, Digital Creativity Conference, digital innovation, futureeverything, Japan, Tokyo
The Digital Creativity Conference asked what are the new opportunities created by digital technologies, for art practice, and art institutions. It was staged in Tokyo by British Council on 12-13 February 2011. The British Council should be congratulated in bringing together such a fantastic lineup of speakers from the UK and Japan, and for their [...]
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An article written for the Digital Creativity Conference organised by British Council (Tokyo, 12-13 Feb 2011). Here I want to talk about digital innovation, and how art organisations can become active in this area. I will look at the work of FutureEverything, and how it has grown from an art and festival company, to an [...]
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Tagged with: Art, British Council, Digital Creativity Conference, digital innovation, futureeverything, Innovation, Japan, Tokyo
After the two month hiatus due to Christmas January’s Open Data Manchester had a presentation by John Garner of GMPTE who outlined the transit authorities commitment to Open Data and more collaborative ways of working. This follows on from the commitment to Open Data by Transport for London (TfL). GMPTE will change to Transport for [...]
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Tagged with: digital innovation, manchester, meeting, open data, opendatacities, transit, transportation
I have just returned from doing a presentation at the national Traveline meeting at GMPTE. I was invited to present on Open Data in Manchester, the Open Data Cities project and DataGM along with Victoria Moody from Trafford Council. After the meeting there was a short discussion that orbited around the twin issues of risk [...]
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Tagged with: DataGM, meetin, open data, opendatacities, transit, transportation
At the end of last week I was in London for the Open Government Data Camp organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation. It was amazing to see the vibrancy that exists in the international open data community and it showed that there are a lot of people out there who can be called upon. There [...]
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Tagged with: government, London, open data, Open Government Data Camp, opendatacities, policy
As you are aware the Open Data Cities span out of the 2009 Futuresonic Conference. It took a great deal of time and energy to raise some funding to enable us to do our work. This was achieved with support from Manchester Knowledge Capital – especially Coral Grainger and Anne Dornan and also some traveling [...]
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Tagged with: digital innovation, funding, open data, opendatacities
If you didn’t know it Open Data is the biggest game in town. It offers to solve society’ ills, make us all rich and fix corruption in government, as the universal panacea it has a lot going for it. Modern technologised societies exist on data. It is the lifeblood that courses through the veins of [...]
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Tagged with: civil engagement, government, open data, opendatacities, policy, politics, reenfranchisement, society
