The largest local authority in the United Kingdom, Birmingham City Council serves a population of over one million citizens. Due to its size and range of activities it collects, generates, and uses an enormous amount of data. It recognized that sharing this effectively with its community would deliver enormous benefits.

Its self-service data marketplace therefore features comprehensive information organized into nine themes, with every dataset provided with its own insights page to explain and give context to the data it contains. This enables users, including staff, citizens, voluntary organizations and healthcare bodies to easily understand information, ensuring accountability, boosting collaboration, and driving improvements.

Find out more in the success story.