Despite narratives on the decline of UK high streets, there are many examples of local community partnerships applying strategies to repurpose traditional retail space and meet modern community needs. In London, this is supported by the High Streets Data Service and its adaptive re-use of big, private-sector data to deliver local, public-sector research and analysis. Hear Lauren Wool (Greater London Authority High Streets Data Service) talk about the project at TICTeC 2024.
Disfactory is a crowdsourcing platform that enables citizens to report illegal factories on farmland in Taiwan, aiming to decrease pollution and accidents.
The PWYP Data Extractors Programme is a global initiative which trains participants to uncover and make sense of extractives data.
A conversation about partnerships, culture, capacity and peer review.
Slide deck running through the benefits of hosting in the cloud.
How an anti-corruption advocacy group in Indonesia uses open data as a tool to influence provincial mining policy.