This podcast, introduced by Jared Keller of the ODI, explores two questions: why is it important for organisations to empower people to play a more active role in deciding what happens to their data? And second, which system of decision making is best - individual, collective or delegated? Three guests, Julian Tait from Open Data Manchester, Anouk Ruhaak from Mozilla Foundation and Emmett Townsend from Inrupt talk about their own organisations and the challenges and benefits of each approach, before opening out a wider discussion around issues of personal consent, legislation and making such initiatives successful and sustainable.  

If you are interested in discussing the different types of data institutions and issues of consent around data institutions please get in touch with the team.

Rebalancing power dynamics: how data institutions can help empower people and communities

Richard Stirling from The Open Data Institute (@theodi) talks about Open Data in the UK.

Richard Stirling talks about Open Data and Civic Participation

Data from the High Speed 2 project has been released under an Open Government Licence. This has provided companies like Landmark an opportunity to enter the world of “Open”. 

Jez Nicholson told us about the product that Landmark has built upon the HS2 data and how “Open” may have ultimately changed the business itself.

By day, Jez Nicholson is Head of Product Development for a leading property risk assessment company. By night, he is lead developer of OpenPlaques.org.

With kind thanks to Thomson Reuters for supporting and hosting this event.

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Friday lunchtime lecture: Changing tracks with HS2 open data



One thing we won’t be short of in the future is data – we’ll have detailed analytics about how we live and the world around us. But what about the past? Is it possible to pull together data about the history of our cities and gain some insight into the past?

In this lecture, Leigh Dodds introduced a project from Bath: Hacked, that is using historical maps and cultural heritage open data to let people begin exploring 400 years of Bath’s history.

Leigh Dodds is an associate with the Open Data Institute and the manager of Bath: Hacked’s data store.

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Friday lunchtime lecture: Time travelling with open data

Listen to podcasts from the Open Data Institute – discussing the impacts of data across areas including health, cities, the built environment, government and finance. Speakers also delve into issues around data ethics, trust, art, culture, corruption and accountability.

Rebalancing power dynamics: how data institutions can help empower people and communities

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