Last week I wrote about the Open Data Institute’s first Immersion Programme on Crime and Justice. I’m series lead for this and part of the role means that I’ll be both encouraging people to take part and supporting those that do. As a recap, the challenges that we have set are: How can open data [...]

I’ve recently taken on a really interesting role working with the Open Data Institute. Over the next nine months I’ll be the series lead for their first Immersion Programme where we will be working with developers, data owners within and outside government and other interested parties to help establish some substantial and sustainable open data [...]

This was the talk I did at Pecha Kucha Coventry in November last year. It might sound a slightly odd title for a talk that is all about open data, but I was keen to do the whole presentation without using the phrase “open data” once. This was because I was part of an evening [...]

I’m lucky enough to be involved in a number of events this month. On the 15th November I’ll be going along, and probably talking, at the Chamberlain Forum‘s round table discussion on how open data and communication can help support a Co-operative Council. I’ve been involved in some work on open education data that I’ll [...]

Since April I’ve been doing a few days a week working for aidinfo on the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). IATI provides an agreed open data standard to which organisations are publishing their aid data. aidinfo are one of a number of supporters of the Development Data Challenge at The Guardian offices at the end [...]

When the Cabinet Office released its white paper on open data last month I asked this question: So, can I FOI Service Birmingham now? This was because, while the Open Data white paper can be viewed as a continuation of policies which develop our right to open data, we are also going through a period [...]

At the end of March I will be taking voluntary redundancy from Birmingham City Council – and Digital Birmingham – and moving on to work for myself. Well, for as long as I can stand the boss I will, anyway. I joined Digital Birmingham a little under four years ago from Aston Pride. There I’d [...]

The government responded to the snappily titled Policy options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey consultation last week. One of the results of this is the opening up of the OS Open Space Application Programming Interface (API) This means that lots of us will now have access to embed Ordnance Survey mapping into our blog [...]