[open-sustainability] Hello from London

Tue Dec 11 09:31:00 UTC 2012

Dear,
That's great, and i think i will have a time to read more about OKFN
to see how can i get involved.

2012/12/11, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> Welcome Tom. :-)
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Tom Chance
> <Tom.Chance at london.gov.uk>wrote:
>
>> **
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to quickly introduce myself, and some open sustainability data.
>>
>> I work at the Greater London Authority supporting the two Green Party
>> Members of the London Assembly (a body of elected politicians who
>> scrutinise the Mayor of London and have certain powers over his budget
>> and
>> strategy). I've also been involved on and off with the open data movement
>> for many years in a personal capacity, including speaking at some of
>> Rufus
>> Pollock's ever-fun London Copyfighters' Drunken Brunch events back in
>> 2005
>> (those were the days!)
>>
>> The GLA launched one of the very first open data projects in the UK,
>> where
>> you can find quite a bit of enviromental data:
>> http://data.london.gov.uk/taxonomy/categories/environment
>>
>> This includes the London Energy and Greenhouse Gas Inventory, which
>> sounds
>> similar to the sort of data Hans Rosling wants to see published
>> worldwide:
>> http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/leggi-2008-database
>>
>> Thanks to pressure from one of the Members I work with, the GLA has also
>> started to release detailed modelling data underpinning its strategies,
>> for
>> example:
>>
>> http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/climate-change-mitigation-and-energy-strategy-model-data
>>
>>
>> In my personal life I have also pursued various experiments with
>> sustainable lifestyles data in OpenStreetMap, for example:
>> http://tom.acrewoods.net/2011/04/11/announcing-openecomaps-to-geeks/
>> (site
>> currently not functioning!)
>> http://tom.acrewoods.net/2012/10/04/mapping-for-pedestrians/
>> http://tom.acrewoods.net/2012/10/26/londons-natural-geography/
>> http://tom.acrewoods.net/2012/11/02/analysing-southwarks-natural-geography/
>>
>>
>> I cannot give a lot of time in my day job to this group, but I look
>> forward to seeing what it can achieve.
>>
>>
>> Tom Chance
>> Team Coordinator
>> LONDONASSEMBLY Green Group
>>
>> City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA
>> Tel: 020 7983 4963
>>
>> **
>>
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