1.
Data Mill North/
Leeds City Council
Stephen Blackburn
Information Governance
stephen.blackburn@leeds.gov.uk / open.data@leeds.gov.uk
@StevieBYorks / @DataMillNorth

2.
Governance
• Agenda managed by the
Information Governance team
• Open data principles
• Publishing guidelines
• Anonymisation guidelines

3.
Useful data
• Government agenda focused on
policy and process
• Needs to be understood
• Needs to be meaningful
• Needs to provide value

4.
Leeds’ ambitions -
Not just a council
platform!

5.
Our ambitions
• Leeds’ ambition to be ‘best city for
open data’
• Can’t compete with the likes of
London, Barcelona & Chicago
• Leeds Data Mill becomes…

6.
Not just data!
• A community focus
• How can data improve the lives of
citizens and communities?
• Building a community of users

7.
DATA MILL NORTH
@DataMillNorth

8.
Innovation Labs
• Identify an issue or problem
• Which datasets could help?
• Work with analysts / developers
• Prototype solutions

9.
Dashboards
http://leedsdatamill.org/dashboard http://datamillnorth.org/bradford-di/

10.
And finally…
• Interested in working collaboratively?
• Have data to share and publish?
• Let’s talk!

11.
Thanks!