OpenData Cities
Julian Tait@julianlstar
1Tuesday, 24 May 2011
FutureEverything is based in Manchester UK and has been established for 16 years. It started out being a festival of mostly music and art and hassince developed into a cutting edge, international conference looking at the societal impact of technology and mapping various future outcomes, aninternational art and technology award and year a round digital innovation lab.The Open Data Cities project is one such lab that was born out of the then ‘Futuresonic’ conference in 2009
Engels circa 1840
OpenData Cities
2Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The Open Data Cities project arose out of a question. How would cities evolve if all information was openly available. Would a city evolve in thesame way? Would the asymmetries that we find in the cities of today still exist and would they be diminished, shifted or exaggerated.This is a map that Frederich Engels created whilst he was working in his father’s mill in Ancoats, Manchester. It is through this mapping of theinequities of the industrial city that prompted him to write ‘The Plight of the Working Classes’. As with most northern hemisphere industrial citiesthe prevailing winds meant that the poorer areas were mostly on the eastern side of the city.
Rochdale
206,500
Oldham
217,273
Tameside
215,500
Stockport
281,000
Manchester
483,800
Trafford
211,800
Salford
218,000
Wigan
305,500
Bolton
262,400
Bury
183,300
Conceptual overadministrative model of cityPopulation 2.6 million
OpenData Cities
3Tuesday, 24 May 2011
At the start of the Open Data Cities project, there weren’t many city based open data initiatives and most of those were in North America and thesewere underpinned by mayoral decree. In 2009 Greater Manchester was slated to become a City Region that would pave the way for an electedmayor for Greater Manchester. In order for City Region status to be granted there had to be some reform as to how the ten local authorities useddata.We saw that the time was right to bring open data to the fore and we set about talking to the 10 local authorities and other public bodies.The idea of talking about the conceptual idea of the city over the administrative one is also key. People work, rest and play across authorities,people see the city di
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erently to the administrative model. Also if open data was to be sustainable it would have to have a larger impact - andpotential market - than any one local authority.
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