We’re happy to announce that on 21st of April, 2015 we’ll be organising and sponsoring an event about local open data at MOSI, the Museum of Science and Industry, in Manchester. The event will be relevant to open data from …
The first 12 months for Bath: Hacked have been incredible. It’s time to take a little breather. It’s less than a year since I first posted about our little open data group in Bath and I’m proud to say our …
Every year fuel poverty in the UK makes the headlines, for example: http://www.theguardian.com/big-energy-debate/2014/sep/19/fuel-poverty-no… http://www.itv.com/news/wales/update/2014-10-20/the-cold-weather-causes-… Fuel poverty is caused by a combination of fuel costs, poverty and inefficient housing stock, and can have a range of effects including Negative environmental effects …
When Cambridgeshire County Council received the funding to develop our approach to Open Data in the County we were naturally very pleased. Eight months later after the hard slog of delivering a project to time / budget we can reflect …
Cambridgeshire Insight: Open data – ‘Open for Business’ Read more »
Recently the Greater Manchester Data Synchronisation Programme (or GMDSP to its friends) won an award celebrating it as a leading example of how information can be used innovatively and effectively for real benefits. The Local eGovernment Standards Body (LeGSB) Award …
There are more than 70 providers who own and manage social housing across the Cambridge sub-region. These include Cambridge City Homes and South Cambridgeshire District Council housing who are the two councils who have retained management of council housing. The other …
Introduction The Census tells us that more than 322,000 households were living in the Cambridge housing sub-region in 2011. Of these approximately: • 210,000 were owner-occupiers and 3,700 were shared owners • 48,000 lived in social housing rented either from …
Data story: Social housing providers in the Cambridge sub-region Read more »
This week sees the launch of The Hampshire Hub in beta. It’s an open, linked data platform which we’ve been helping Hampshire County Council and public service providers around the area to create. And, although there’s more to come on …