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A open data surgery in Trafford

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Last week the fab Jamie Whyte ran an open data surgery in Trafford… These are the people he helped and how… “Trafford Centre for Independent Living (CIL) Trafford CIL provide a support service to the 4,500 or so carers in Trafford. They are preparing to carry out a comprehensive survey of carers in Trafford, and […]

July 24th, 2015 | by Nick Booth | Posted inOpen Data|0 Comments

Helping David Owen find the data he needs to make unattached playing fields in Birmingham more useful and more used.l

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Earlier today Steph Clarke and I had a chat with David Owen of Friends of Spring Lane in Birmingham. Spring Lane is what is know as an “unattached playing field” (not attached to a specific school – although there for the sporting use of primary schools in Birmingham).  Spring lane once had numerous maintained pitches […]

July 2nd, 2015 | by Nick Booth | Posted inBirmingham,Open Data|0 Comments

How can community groups use open data for Big Local and Our Place

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This is a practical run through of  something we picked up through a  question Becky Picklin asked us.  She works as the small groups officers for Dudley CVS and wondered if open data might help their support for Big Local in East Coseley We first had a look at possibilities in the surgery at Stourbridge […]

June 11th, 2015 | by Nick Booth | Posted inBirmingham,Local democracy,Open Data|0 Comments

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