Tag: hyperlocal

Releasing local data: what are the challenges?

  • April 23, 2010 at 7:17 am

  • On Monday I was invited to a Local Public Data Panel workshop to help address the challenge of releasing local data to the public. Local council officers, bloggers and activists were brought together to help ‘generate ideas and understanding about what is needed to drive the local public data initiative at a local level’. The [...]

Coming round to ‘hyperlocal’: my notes on the Talk About Local unconference 2010

  • April 18, 2010 at 6:47 pm

  • ‘Hyperlocal’ has been a buzzword in the online engagement community for about eighteen months, and to be honest it’s not one I’ve been comfortable with: why try and define a sub-category of ‘local’ which is itself pretty undefinable? I still have a bit of a problem with it, but yesterday it did become clearer to [...]