Today we're celebrating 10 years of the London Datastore 🎂🎂🎂 one of the world's leading city data platforms (thread). In 2010 Datastore was one of the first of its kind developed by a major city anywhere in the world... (2)...making freely available huge amounts of data about the capital & used to tackle some of London’s most important challenges. It currently has around 60,000 users each month & is home to more than 6,000 datasets – up from around 500 when it was first launched.

How we are developing @MayorofLondon Civic Innovation Challenge 2.0 - what we learned from our first year of open call innovation (THREAD) medium.com/@SmartLondon/t… We received over 120 applications, interviewed 35 companies and 14 were selected to take part in the programme with £15k grants. Over a period of 6 weeks these companies worked with their challenge partner (TfL, NHS or a council) &developed a pilot proposal.

Post & thread about city-wide open data 👇@LDN_data London Datastore is 9 today 🎂 - London's open data-sharing portal where anyone can access data relating to the capital - here's a quick recap of open data in London, driven by @LDN_gov City Hall medium.com/@SmartLondon/l… Launched in January 2010​, the Datastore originally hosted some 200 datasets - now it has over 800 📈, with over 50k/month users from government, business, media, academia & civil society.

Thread on London's digital economy - Part of the @LDN_CDO task is making sure major @MayorofLondon strategies are aligned when we talk about data, digital economy, technology & innovation. Today we started a discussion on a new economic strategy london.gov.uk/sites/default/… Our plan starts with strong statement about data: "Data and digital technologies are a key and increasingly vital component of London’s economy, and its public realm."