Building on work in East London, the aim is to discover as many relevant businesses as possible in three North London boroughs, collect data on them, and then develop and apply criteria for reliable businesses.
Repair Data
We collect data on every repair that we attempt at our events using our Fixometer app. We then use that data to provide insights into the devices and problems we see to those who design, manufacture and regulate products in the first place. We want to identify the barriers to repair that people come up against, whether it’s lack of spare parts, poor documentation, or simply bad design.
We’re also a founding member of the Open Repair Alliance, which shares information and insights with repair organisations around the world. And we’re exploring the availability of reliable commercial repairers, with our Repair Directory.
Our applications
Our latest insights
Below are some of the insights we’ve gleaned The first version of the Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) is now ready, following the initial meeting of the Open Repair Alliance’s founding members in October during Fixfest. Restart co-founder Ugo Vallauri spoke at Mozilla Festival (“MozFest”) 2017: the world’s leading festival for the open internet. Mozfest gathered together advocates for a ‘healthy internet’ and hardware is a big part of this. Open Repair Alliance founding members include The Restart Project (UK), Repair Café Foundation (Holland), Anstiftung Foundation (Germany), Fixit Clinic (US) alongside iFixit. Yesterday we hit some big milestones of waste and CO2 prevented, logged by Restart Party hosts across the world: five tons of electronics diverted from waste, and 100,000 kg CO2 prevented through repair. Every little bit of data we collect has been going into our Fixometer database, where we are steadily compiling valuable information about which products that are failing the most frequently, why they are failing, and whether we are able to repair them. We are publishing findings of a research project with Nottingham Trent University to find out more about participants to Restart Parties We took the opportunity to research commercial repair businesses in East London to come up with initial criteria to help find reliable options 
Launching the Open Repair Data Standard
Listening and speaking at Mozfest 2017
Announcing the International Day of Repair and introducing the Open Repair Alliance
Collective environmental milestones
The power of citizen-generated data: why even failed repairs count
Learning more about Restart Party participants
How to find reliable commercial repairers?