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Rob Benson handles E-communications for Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust. During SpeedData Rob spoke about how it might be quite difficult to get some people within organisations to appreciate the reasons for making data available, particularly within an institution like the NHS where issues of privacy are particularly important. But Rob was taken [...]
April 29th, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Collaboration,Data|0 Comments
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Andrew Beeken has blogged on how he set up a very simple WordPress blog to start the process of opening up data at Lincoln. As he explains, he’s going to be publicising it in Lincoln and will report back on the reaction it gets. Andrew’s data.lincoln.gov.uk site sets a good example of just how it’s [...]
April 22nd, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham|0 Comments
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At the beginning of this month (apologies, we’re a bit late) the Government announced that much of the mapping data held by the Ordnance Survey would be released free to the public.
April 20th, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Data,Mashups|1 Comment
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In January the data.gov.uk site was launched at an event at the Guardian’s headquarters in London. For the unitiated, this site is the government’s attemp, under the guidance of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, to take data that is in the hands of the government and make it available [...]
March 1st, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inData,Local democracy|0 Comments
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In Birmingham we have good experiences with the unconference/Barcamp style. Especially when it comes to gathering people around a specific topic or discussion. Another Barcamp or unconference is in the making, this time on the topic of Digital Inclusion. The people from ‘We Share Stuff’ got the idea after they attended the National Digital Inclusion [...]
August 27th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inBirmingham,Collaboration|1 Comment
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Yesterday there was yet another successful Social Media Surgery at Fazeley Studios in Birmingham. With a turn-up of over 30 people in form of surgeons and ‘patients’, I’m pretty sure it was one of the busiest so far. But what actually goes on at the surgeries, sure it’s about social media but am I qualified [...]
June 18th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inBirmingham,Social Media Surgery|2 Comments
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A few weeks ago West by West Midlands 2 (WxWM) was held at the Spotted Dog in Digbeth. An event inspired by the success of the first ‘impromptu’ WxWM event back in April. It’s an event designed to get people together, to discuss and share ideas about the things they love about the internet.
June 16th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inCollaboration,Data|0 Comments
