Elizabeth Truss has encouraged farmers and the food industry to seize the opportunities offered by open data as the global population grows towards 9 billion.The Secretary of State was speaking at an Open Data Institute conference: ODI Futures Agriculture, December 2, where she reiterated …
Last Wednesday night (25/11/15) the #OpenDefra team were privileged to attend the launch of the Geovation Water Challenge at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Water's Innovation Reception in the Houses of Parliament. The event included the Geovation Challenge launch, stands to …
Making 8000 data sets open quickly, and changing our ways of working to deliver this can bring with it risks. Within Defra we have experts in understanding and managing these risks and over the last few weeks we have been …
Last night the Secretary of State for Environment, Elizabeth Truss, launched Great British Food: a five year campaign celebrating British food in this country and around the world, tearing down outdated stereotypes about a bland British diet and showing off the …
Hi, I’m Claire Hainsworth. I work in the Data, Mapping, Modelling and Information team at the Environment Agency. Over the last few weeks, I’ve carried out a wholesale update of our metadata records on data.gov.uk. Why did we do …
Miranda Kavanagh, Executive Director of Evidence at the Environment Agency talks about how we are supporting the Geovation Water Challenge... As a member of the Defra Data Governance Board I'm pleased to confirm that the Environment Agency and Defra will be …
Today we have a short post from the retiring Environment Agency Chief Executive Dr Paul Leinster: I am coming to the end of my time as Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, an NDPB within the Department for the Environment …
On Friday (10/07/15) I had the pleasure of attending 'Make it Better With Data: Sheffield' at Sheffield Town Hall hosted by the cities Better With Data Society and Sheffield City Council, with support from Capita and Socrata. The conference was one of the …
This week saw the beta release of the Environment Agency's flood data APIs and 4 new open data products from Ordnance Survey including the detailed OS Open Map - Local and the new OS Open Rivers network data. Alex Coley's …
Open 'Flood' Data Last year the Environment Agency increased its publication of Open Data. In the first instance, and in response to the extreme flooding episodes of the 2013/14 winter, this included access to flood warnings, flood alerts and river …
