[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: BSC Open Data Meeting

[Brian Prangle]

Hi everyone

Can I have a shopping list? Off the top of my head I can think of

speed limits
red routes

Regards

Brian

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From: Goh, Susannah <s.goh at aston.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:07 AM
Subject: BSC Open Data Meeting



 Hi Everyone,

The West Midlands has had a thriving open data community for some time. Our
local government departments are exploring the potential use of open data
to improve service provision.   For example, in Birmingham, Digital
Birmingham and the City Council have approved an open data strategy at
Cabinet level. The time is right for us to collectively explore how to get
the most for our region. Following the discussion of this topic at our last
Digital Working Group meeting, we would like to invite you as potential
users and providers of open data to a workshop to identify challenges to
overcome in order to for us to get real value from this data; and to
contribute to a business case for addressing them.

During the meeting we would like you to begin to plot out and explore some
of the key areas in which open data should be used; the type of data that
is being made available; how and by whom it can/ should be used; and what
we hope to gain from its use.  We also need to be mindful of the immensity
of the open data agenda, so it’s essential that we start to define the
parameters of what we want to do.  By the end of the meet, we’d like you to
be able to come away with new contacts as well as some ideas that can turn
into meaningful, realistic and scalable activities.

We look forward to seeing you there.

All the best

Susannah and Rick
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