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23 July 2013
Promising response from BIG to FOI requests for data
BIG Lottery Fund is the largest of the organisations that distributes money from the state-sanctioned Lottery in the UK. They have given a helpful response to my two FOI requests. I made two probing requests – one for a set of grants data from a geographic unit of manageable size and one for the nature of data […]
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27 June 2013
First catch your data
It isn’t always easy for large organisations to just open the floodgates and pour data out. There’s always a host of compliance issues, some real, some over-cautious. Tim Berners-Lee’s original, highly readable 2009 article on bureaucracies and open data acknowledges this and urges them just to publish, not spend years agonising: Just do it…There […]
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24 June 2013
Meeting hosted by Indigo Trust on 20 June 2013
Indigo Trust hosted a meeting at its offices to discus open data, philanthropy, grant making and the principles underpinning this blog. The minutes will be published in due course, the following attended: Simon Marshall Big Lottery Funding Cathy Pharoah Cass Business School Owen Barder Centre for Global Development Beth Breeze Centre for Philanthropy – Kent […]
24 June 2013
Opening up data around grant making - a demonstrator for Esmee Fairbairn
In 2010, Esmee Fairbairn a leading grant maker in the social justice area held a futures event. One team took Esmee’s grant information from their website (where it was published in pdf documents) and turned it into a database. By turning the data into a versatile database, instead of static documents they were able to […]