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How we celebrated Repair Day 2020

October 20, 2020

In an unprecedented year, this International Repair Day, volunteers ...

Celebrate repair as essential on Repair Day 2020!

September 10, 2020

Mark your calendars for Saturday 17 October because it’s the...

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Our Open Repair dataset grows to 42,000 records

July 7, 2020

While community repair groups around the world have been forced to put t...

Open Repair Data: 30,000 records together at last

January 29, 2020

We’re excited to share that the Open Repair Alliance has published o...

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Why Open Repair?

New products launched on the market are increasingly difficult to repair, and often unsupported by manufacturers. Together, we will change the way products are made, supported and taken care of when they need a repair.
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Citizen Action

We share a passion for citizen-driven action, made clear by continuous growth of community pop-up repair activities across the world.
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The Open Repair Data Standard

As part of the work of the Open Repair Alliance, we are building an open standard for the collection and sharing of open data on electronics repair. The goal of a standard is to make it easy to collect and share open data on electronics repair between many different groups.
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How Open Repair works

Community

Our organisations are actively involved in community repair worldwide.

Data

We are building ways to collect and share data on the repairs that we do.

Stories

We can tell the stories that matter - on citizen frustration and the importance of repair.

Advocacy

Together, we can make a strong case to manufacturers, designers and policy-makers.

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If you would like to discuss our work and join the Alliance, please get in touch.
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