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Covid-19
- Ben Snaith
- Deborah Yates
- Jeni Tennison
- Olivier Thereaux
We’re helping you to make sense of publishing and accessing data during Covid-19, with free tools, guides, explainers, research and opinion pieces.

Latest

Blog 19/10/2021
Implementing national data strategies: start small, think big
- Policy
- Jeni Tennison
Is the UK’s Spending Review an opportunity to transform national data and AI strategies into reality? Jeni Tennison, ODI Vice President and Chief Strategy Adviser, shares her thoughts
Blog, News, Tender opportunities 18/10/2021
Lowering barriers to implementation of the OpenActive Open Booking API
- Health and physical activity
- Mahad Alassow
- Timothy Hill
We are seeking a contractor to support us in the implementation of the OpenActive Open Booking API including: augmentation and improvement of existing technical reference and explanation documentation; the creation of tutorials for developers; extending test-suite coverage; and resolving minor bugs in existing OpenActive tooling
Blog 14/10/2021
Public perceptions of bottom-up data institutions
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
- Joe Massey
We are working with ProjectsbyIF to better understand public perceptions of bottom up data institutions
Blog 13/10/2021
Putting government data on the map
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Science and research
- Skills and literacy
- Gavin Freeguard
Special Adviser Gavin Freeguard looks back at what we’ve learned from our recent National Data Strategy policy project, in which we used a crowdsourcing exercise to map data-related organisations and initiatives across UK government
Blog 06/10/2021
Le Guin’s data identities
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data ethics and privacy
- Policy
- Science and research
- Adjoa Anyimadu
- David Warrell
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Fionntán O'Donnell
- Jeni Tennison
A candid and constructive exploration of experimentation in data policy and practice by structurally under-represented communities in North America and Europe as transnational emergent forces reimagining the social contract in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Blog 05/10/2021
Real-time data to measure the economy: insights from the ONS
- Data publishing and use
- Policy
- Fionntán O'Donnell
Our Senior Data Technologist, Fionntán O’Donnell, talks to Andrew Walton and Issie Davies at the Office for National Statistics, to learn more about how real-time indicators are used to help shape data releases
Blog, Explainers 01/10/2021
Why leaders should care how their organisation collects, accesses, uses and shares data
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Deborah Yates
- Ed Evans
How do you ensure your organisation is collecting, accessing, using, and sharing data in the right way?
Blog 29/09/2021
Build Back Better: the data behind UK’s net zero transition
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
UK’s Build Back Better plan to recover from Covid-19 discusses the transition to net zero and the UK’s plan to achieve it. But what is the data behind this and is it supporting the government’s ambitions?
Blog, News, Reports 28/09/2021
New: Report scrutinising the policy readiness of Europe for the secondary use of health data
- Health and physical activity
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Jeni Tennison
- Mahad Alassow
- Mark Boyd
The Open Data Institute (ODI) has published a first-of-its-kind report – commissioned by Roche – scrutinising the policy readiness of Europe for the secondary use of health data and identifying good practice across the region
Blog 23/09/2021
Octavia’s data parables
- Policy
- Science and research
- Adjoa Anyimadu
- David Warrell
- Deborah Yates
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Jeni Tennison
A candid and constructive exploration of experimentation in data policy and practice around environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) data and global supply chains