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With the development of new hardware devices, personal health apps and the ability to process large amounts of data sets, we now have unprecedented means to improve and personalise health care for all.

Yet such a proliferation of data, across many providers, often utilising always-on devices, raises questions such as - who does the data belong to, how should this data be managed, should patients have the right to access the many readings taken of them within a hospital to manage their own overall care?

Technologists have made breakthroughs to do this in a coherent framework of user rights in regards to privacy, user rights and establishing a clear boundary of what is acceptable. Can this work for healthcare?

Yodit Stanton, founder of Atomic Data Labs, will explore the challenges and the moral questions that collecting device data is raising.

Slides for this lecture can be found here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/167920141/Healthcare-data-collection-for-good-or-ill-with-Yodit-Stanton

ODI Fridays: Healthcare data collection - for good or ill?

What if we could play back all the CCTV ever recorded of us? Film maker Manu Luksch did just that with her sci-fi fairy tale film ‘FACELESS.'

Our lives are being captured in a multitude of ways: across social media, mobile and telephone communications, on the street. In the light what’s been reported this summer about the NSA, GCHQ and other governments, Manu’s film is particularly timely. 

Using CCTV footage of herself requested via the Data Protection Act and blocking out the faces of anyone else captured on it, Manu's film imagines a faceless world - with herself as the only woman with a face. Manu will be discussing our surveilled society and what the future might hold for us.

The trailer referenced in this podcast can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLzJCeGYgbg

ODI Fridays: FACELESS - what if all our lives were recorded? with Manu Luksch

Politicians are often criticised for their liberal use of statistics and data, and 2013 has been no exception. Hetan Shah, executive director of the Royal Statistical Society, examined how politicians lie with data and what we can do about it.

ODI Fridays: How politicians lie with data, with Hetan Shah

Nearly 70 years of computers, and most of us still just use them as a fast version of paper. What is code? What is data? Teaching everyone to program, restructuring organisations … artificial intelligence. What will it take to make “data” ten times better?

Francis Irving, CEO of ScraperWiki, will take us through examples from working with international agencies and businesses, with a shot of Stafford Beer and a soupçon of PDFs.

Francis spoke on Friday the 22nd of November at the Open Data Institute in London.

ODI Fridays: Burn the digital paper! A call to arms, by Francis Irving of ScraperWiki

Open data from arts and cultural organisations won’t help you choose a school or a hospital or make a financial decision, but it could create new ways of understanding history, experiencing great art and literature, and - fundamentally - help us to understand more about ourselves.

Ahead of the launch of the Culture Hack Open Data Repository, Rachel Coldicutt and Kim Plowright gave an overview of the arts open-data landscape and discussed the importance of making some of our greatest assets open and machine readable.

Rachel Coldicutt is a director of Caper and founder of Culture Hack. She was previously Head of Digital Media at the Royal Opera House.

Kim Plowright does things on the Internet. Her recent projects include D-Day As It Happened for Channel 4 and Pepys Road for Faber & Faber. She created the Culture Hack Data Repository for Caper with Frankie Roberto.

ODI Fridays: What's the point of cultural open data? with Rachel Coldicutt and Kim Plowright

ODI Fridays lunchtime lecture, 6 December 2013.

Since March 2012 Land Registry has been releasing free datasets to support the UK government’s economic growth, open data and transparency agendas. Understand the data journey of the authoritative source for land and property data and where it’s ambition lies with the Land Registry’s Andrew Trigg, George Davies and Ben White.

ODI Fridays: How to Build an Open Data Centric Organisation

ODI Fridays lunchtime lecture, 13 December 2013.

In a decade of running data-heavy civic tech sites such as FixMyStreet, TheyWorkForYou and Mapumental, mySociety has learned a lot about how to gather, display, and archive data - and we have the yarns to prove it.

mySociety's senior consultant, Mike Thompson, talked through, amongst other things, why one of their sites breaks on an almost daily basis, how they combined open data sources and a routing algorithm to evaluate the accessibility of Welsh secondary schools and the guerilla data collection methods some councils have used to derive their bin collection calendar.

ODI Fridays: Five lessons from a decade working with open data

Jeni Tennison OBE, CTO of the ODI, outlines her version of an Open Data Christmas, by reading her letter to Santa.

For the end of 2013, we asked three Friday lunchtime lecturers - David Tarrant, Jeni Tennison and Patrick Hussey - to return and tell us their version or vision of an Open Data Christmas.


ODI Fridays: Open Data Christmas - Jeni Tennison OBE

Dr David Tarrant, outlines his version of an Open Data Christmas.

For the end of 2013, we asked three Friday lunchtime lecturers - David Tarrant, Jeni Tennison and Patrick Hussey - to return and tell us their version or vision of an Open Data Christmas.

ODI Fridays: Open Data Christmas - Dr David Tarrant

Founded in the UK in 2004, inspired by the success of Wikipedia and crowd sourcing information, OpenStreetMap aims to map the world as open data.

The project came into it's own during the 2010 Haiti earthquake where volunteers used available satellite imagery to map the roads, buildings and refugee camps of Port-au-Prince in just two days, to create the most complete digital map of Haiti.

Harry Wood, developer at transportAPI.com, and on the board of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, introduced us to OpenStreetMap, looking at how volunteer mappers helped with disaster response in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan.

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ODI Fridays: Typhoon Crisis Mapping with OpenStreetMap, with Harry Wood

Case Study Radio is a podcast series produced by SemanticWeb.com that focuses on case studies and successful "real world" implementations of Semantic Web standards, Linked Data, and other Semantic Technologies.

What Is Linked Data - Case Study Radio - Episode1

Ian Makgill of SpendNetwork, examined government procurement. Can open data be used to protect public investments and deliver an IT project on time and within budget.

SpendNetwork believe that government shouldn’t have to pay for spend analysis, as long as the data is open, and that suppliers need better data on government opportunities.

ODI Fridays: Can open data improve government procurement? with Ian Makgill

At the January 31st lunchtime lecture, Alan Patrick, co-founder of Broadsight, examined what lessons can be learnt from past technologies such as search, and the most likely safeguards required over the next few years. How do prevent abuse of open data by those with ill-intent, or is this a pipe dream?

Open data is expounded as a force for good but is there a risk of glossing over its potential for harm?

ODI Fridays: Open data - the dark side, with Alan Patrick

For our 14th February, 2014 lecture…
Climate change is global, yet solving the challenges are often local and bound up in policy making, industrial, organisational and personal decision making.

Co-founder of Cleanweb UK and entrepreneur Chris Adams explained the role can open data play in ensuring a cleaner world, and what data sets still need to be opened up.

ODI Fridays: What open data do we need for a greener, cleaner world? with Chris Adams of CleanwebUK

For our 21st February lecture… So you want to build an open data business? The challenges of the digital economy.

Looking at the short history of the open data movement in London, Emer Coleman gave us a reality check. She examined the early expectations, where we have since seen success and failure and what barriers impede further development.

ODI Fridays: So you want to build an open data business? with Emer Coleman of DSRPTN

The extension of the open data programme to personal data such as medical records was based on the hope that personal data could be anonymised. This is turning into a slow-motion political train wreck, with the care.data scandal and the revelation that the hospital episode statistics data sold to numerous companies contained patient postcodes and dates of birth, so the anonymity claims were simply false.

Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge, asks: what’s going on?

ODI Fridays: Why anonymity fails - with Professor Ross Anderson

The ODI’s Data as Culture art programme aims to engage diverse audiences with artists and works that use data as an art material.

The 2014 commission explores our relationship with surveillance, privacy, and personal data, taking a critical and sometimes comedic look at the power of open data. Works include pneumatic contraptions, satellite imagery, data collection performances, and knitted data discrepancies.

Art curator Shiri Shalmy talked to Open Data institute’s Art Associate Julie Freeman about the curatorial process behind the 2014 Data as Culture exhibition.

Julie Freeman is the Art Associate at the ODI and heads up the Data as Culture art programme. She is a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London researching the convergence of biological data and kinetic art.*

Shiri Shalmy is an independent contemporary art curator working with artists and public art organisations nationally and internationally.

ODI Fridays: Data as culture 2014, with Julie Freeman & Shiri Shalmy

With UK tenants facing soaring rents, poor conditions, a lack of security and unfair practices from landlords and letting agents - the private rented sector is high on the public and political agenda. The Government says it wants to fix this yet it doesn’t even know how many landlords there are in the country.

Alex Hilton, Director of housing organisation Generation Rent, makes a plea for open data that can inform policy, drive up standards and help renters to get a better deal.


ODI Fridays: Generation Rent - empowering tenants through open data Friday, with Alex Hilton

Friday Lunchtime Lectures at the Open Data Institute. 
22 February, 2013

Chris Vein, former White House deputy CTO and now the World Bank's chief innovation officer, will take us through his experiences of working at the top level of government; and how at he is developing the World Bank's technology strategy to help developing countries build their communications and open government infrastructures.

ODI Fridays: Building an open world with Chris Vein

Lunch time lectures at the Open Data Institute
8 February, 2013

The passion and excitement around Open Data is palpable across many sectors but what are the benefits and value for business?

Jeni Tennison, Technical Director at the Open Data Institute, will discuss business models that support publishing open data and what further work is required.

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