We won the European Union Prize for Citizen Science—Digital Communities Award!
We’re delighted to have been awarded the European Union Prize for Citizen Science—Digital Communities Award for our work with repair data and policy campaigning.
Launching the Open Repair Data Standard
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.
Listening and speaking at Mozfest 2017
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.
The power of citizen-generated data: why even failed repairs count
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.
How to grow a circular economy
Recently, we contributed to the Environmental Audit Committee’s ongoing inquiry on Growing a Circular Economy – our evidence follows below. Thanks to Lara Houston for her work on this document.