From the World Bank to local authorities to police forces, many organisations are now publishing data openly for others to access and reuse.
But what about the Co-operative Movement?
Open data enables unprecedented large scale collaboration to clean up, link together, deliver and use all different kinds of information. The potential for the co-operative movement both nationally and internationally is enormous.
Join us to start the discussion as we set the challenge of creating an open data standard for the co-operative sector.
- What kind of data co-operative businesses should open?
- What the benefits are for opening data for the different types of organisations in the co-operative sector (schools, retail, manufacturing etc)?
- How can the benefits be realised for co-operatives?
- What are the pitfalls and risks to opening data and how can they be minimised?
Our guest will be Chris Taggart, of OpenCorporates. Chris will share his experience of building an open dataset of company data, alongside being on involved in policy work around open data.
Co-operative News has taken the first steps with Open Data Manchester to establish an open data community for co-operatives to share information for the benefit of the Movement. Discussions around open data will take place on the Co-operative News Global News Hub (www.thenews.coop), as well as a pilot project to establish how open data can be used.
Co-operatives UK is ideally placed to lead the way, bringing co-operatives together, to define a co-operative open data code of practice.
The event is aimed at developers, data owners and those active in the open data and co-operative movements. Places are extremely limited.
This event is facilitated by Open Data Manchester, Co-operative News and Co-operatives UK. Arrival from 10.30 for coffee, event start 11am.
Event #hashtag is #opencoop.
