Open Innovations

05/02/2025

People can more easily understand how to improve a place if they know the specific problems for that area. So should it be the people with the ability to make decisions live and work in the area those decisions will affect ?

Get involved of local
https://open-innovations.org/projects/lga/power-of-local/

05/02/2025

Thought? -In a centralised system, where places are competing for a share of the same pot of funding, what a place needs may not necessarily be aligned with what will win funding.
What do you think - get involved with our Local Government Association project here

Open Innovations is working with the Local Government Association in a radically open way to demonstrate the power of local government.

30/01/2025

Working with the Local Government Association We're going to collect this data, share the outputs, do some sense making & work out what to do next with this work. It will all be completed in the open so please join in to help make a difference

Open Innovations is working with the Local Government Association in a radically open way to demonstrate the power of local government.

30/01/2025

Please spare 5 minutes to have your say on where delivery has been successful, where centralised approaches have failed, & where centralised approaches have worked best.

We are very pleased to be working with the Local Government Association to find examples of where our great Local Government institutions have delivered better outcomes than centralised approaches.

29/01/2025

Help us & the Local Government Associationto use data to showcase the notion that local knowledge creates better outcomes by highlighting the effectiveness of locally-led initiatives. Read more and join in here.

https://www.local.gov.uk/about/news/power-local

29/01/2025

Help us and the work openly to find examples of where local government works better than centralised approaches. Read our launch blog to find out more and join in.

https://open-innovations.org/blog/2025-01-17-the-power-of-local-

22/01/2025

Recently we started to build a non-contiguous cartogram of UK wards. Here's the current progress. We still need help arranging the rest of the country: open-innovations.github.io/uk-wards-2024/

21/01/2025

Blog post: Tracking the buses https://open-innovations.org/blog/2025-01-15-tracking-the-buses

We've collected live location data using the Bus Open Data Service. Then we've created a tool to compare the real bus journeys against timetabled journey times.

21/01/2025

Our index updates three times a week and currently brings together 9717 warm spaces from 113 directories. If you know of any that we are missing from warm.open-innovations.org/directories (or if you know updated URLs for any which are broken), please let us know.

A directory of directories of warm spaces.

20/01/2025

Websites generate carbon emissions & they are getting bigger :(
But it can be easy to reduce web page sizes & switch web hosting to servers that run on green energy.

Read our advice for positive change


https://open-innovations.org/blog/2024-11-26-are-council-websites-getting-bigger-

17/01/2025

Bristolians, what do you think of our hex layout of Bristol's wards? If you don't like what we've done we'd encourage you to rearrange hexes using the links from https://github.com/open-innovations/uk-wards-2024/ save the output, and update the file in the repository.

17/01/2025

For those in the UK struggling to stay warm this winter, we've collated almost 10,000 offers of warm spaces from third-sector and local authority directories: warm.open-innovations.org

A directory of directories of warm spaces.

17/01/2025

Geo Mappers - We've arranged a hex map of wards for Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, the north and south west of England. If you feel like lending a hand for the rest of England we'd appreciate the help https://github.com/open-innovations/uk-wards-2024/

16/01/2025

Buses, Buses, Buses - Great work from our team who have been busy exploring bus data to make an open bus tracking tool.
We hope it will help with transport planning - so even more people can use buses efficiently- read about & use the work here

https://open-innovations.org/blog/2025-01-15-tracking-the-buses

13/01/2025

It's very cold - so please use & share our Warm Spaces finder tool for those who need it. It is updated regularly but please get in touch if you have any amends/additions.

https://warm.open-innovations.org

02/01/2025

A New Year - a new skill? In our work on transport accessibility we have learnt a lot about both GTFS and GTFS-RT and wanted to share to help others avoid some of the difficulty getting to grips with the data.

https://open-innovations.org/blog/2024-12-23-gtfs-and-gtfs-rt-for-beginners

30/12/2024

Our final post of 2024 is a wrap up of our work with Youth Futures Foundation where we built an open data platform to enable YFF & others understand & make decisions about the youth employment market.
Read more and see the work here https://open-innovations.org/blog/2024-12-23-wrapping-up-with-youth-futures-foundation-and-how-open-data-can-improve-outcomes-for-young-people

27/12/2024

Culture impacts our lives in so many ways - we love our work in this sector - helping orgs use & visualise their data to make a difference to people & society

https://open-innovations.org/projects/culture/