Comments on: The Case for Manchester Open Data City http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/adrianstevenson/2010/02/08/the-case-for-manchester-open-data-city/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-case-for-manchester-open-data-city Adrian Stevenson's UKOLN blog Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Adrian Stevenson http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/adrianstevenson/2010/02/08/the-case-for-manchester-open-data-city/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Adrian Stevenson Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:44:03 +0000 http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/adrianstevenson/?p=82#comment-3 Cheers for the thumbs up on the post Lorna. No, I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised really. It’s easy to make assumptions. I know Julian found the info useful to feedback to the funders.

Which reminds me, I recall you asked who was funding this initiative. You may have spotted anyway, but it’s the ‘Manchester Innovation Investment Fund’ which is “a partnership between NESTA, Manchester City Council and the RDA, managed by Manchester Knowledge Capital”.

Ade

]]> By: Lorna M. Campbell http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/adrianstevenson/2010/02/08/the-case-for-manchester-open-data-city/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Lorna M. Campbell Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:16:59 +0000 http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/adrianstevenson/?p=82#comment-2 Thanks for this Ade. Excellent post on what sounds like a fascinating initiative. Interesting, though perhaps not surprising, that there was a rather negative reaction to opening access to data in general and hyper-local geographical data in particular. Another example of “the agoraphobia of openness” perhaps? Knowledge is indeed power.

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