Local data sharing: what has worked well, and what challenges do we still see in London? April 4th, 2025 by Martine Wauben, Head of Data for London, GLA Blog 4 for the 15-year anniversary of the London Datastore: Celebrating London’s Data Story London is a wonderful, but complex ecosystem. Almost no city challenge can be solved by any one organisation on their own. That’s why the Greater London Authority emphasises partnership working and collaboration in all we do. Where the solution to a…
15 years of the London Datastore March 18th, 2025 by Luke Marshall-Waterfield, Interim Chief Digital Officer for London Blog 1: Celebrating London’s data story This year we’re celebrating the 15-year anniversary of the London Datastore with a series of blogs on what we’ve learned about open data and data sharing. Over the coming weeks we’ll be looking back at what we’ve learned, and how important a role data has played in telling the…
Getting Down to Brass Tacks: Practical Data Sharing and Problem Solving in London December 21st, 2016 by Alan Lewis The latest in our series of London Borough Data Partnership meetings was held last week at the London Fire Brigade HQ. The Partnership aims to bring together London’s Government to share, discuss and create data projects to solve some of our public service challenges. An interesting set of speakers, along with the promise of festive…
London Office of Data Analytics Pilot: two weeks of showing and telling to focus the data science and sharpen the overall approach August 12th, 2016 by Lora Armstrong It’s been 6 weeks since our kickoff workshop for the London Office of Data Analytics (LODA) pilot programme, a joint venture between the GLA and Nesta, with involvement from nearly half of the London boroughs. The broader context shows a real sense of growing intent and purpose around data sharing for impact. In the same…
