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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.

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Blog, News 16/09/2021
Introducing the organisations joining the ‘Data institutions mentorship programme’
- Agriculture and food
- Data publishing and use
- Weather, energy and environment
- Alex Vryzakis
- Elea Himmelsbach
- Jonathan Wilson
We introduce the first four data institutions to join our mentorship programme
Blog 15/09/2021
How your data strategy could build trust in your brand
- ODI Inside Business
- Simon Bullmore
- Stuart Coleman
Find out how brands can better manage customer data in a trustworthy way
Blog 09/09/2021
Mapping data in the UK government: engagement
- Innovation
- Policy
- Deborah Yates
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Gavin Freeguard
- Jack Hardinges
- Jeni Tennison
- Lisa Allen
As part of our 2021 policy project to support the successful implementation of the National Data Strategy, we take a look at who is responsible for data in government through the lens of engagement
Blog 07/09/2021
Sustainable stewardship of open identifiers
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Annalisa Eichholzer
- Deborah Yates
We worked with our partners at Refinitiv to explore the value of open identifiers – the labels that help us identify physical and digital things – and their governance and sustainability
Blog 02/09/2021
Mapping data in the UK government: ethics
- Data ethics and privacy
- Policy
- Deborah Yates
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Gavin Freeguard
- Jeni Tennison
- Lisa Allen
- Olivier Thereaux
As part of our 2021 policy project to support the successful implementation of the National Data Strategy, we take a look at who is responsible for data in government through the lens of ethics
Blog, Reports 01/09/2021
How do data institutions facilitate safe access to sensitive data?
- Data infrastructure
- Science and research
- Dr Jared Robert Keller
In this short research report, Senior Technical Researcher Jared Keller examines the different ways that data institutions are able to facilitate safe access to sensitive data The ‘data-use journey’ The four levers for facilitating safe access to sensitive data Controlling ‘who’ gets access to data and ‘what for’ Controlling ‘what’ data people get access to and ‘how’ Diagram of UK Biobank Looking ahead
Blog 25/08/2021
Mapping data in the UK government: equity
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Gavin Freeguard
- Jeni Tennison
- Josh D'Addario
- Lisa Allen
As part of our 2021 policy project to support the successful implementation of the National Data Strategy, we take a look at who is responsible for data in government through the lens of equity
Blog 20/08/2021
Mapping data in the UK government: innovation
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Gavin Freeguard
- Jeni Tennison
- Orsola De Marco
We explore how our crowdsourcing projects prompted by the National Data Strategy (NDS) through the lens of innovation
Blog 13/08/2021
Exploring global perspectives on data trusts
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
- Joe Massey
The ODI and the Aapti Institute are working together with the Global Partnership for AI to better understand knowledge about, attitudes towards and practices of data trusts from around the world
Blog 12/08/2021
Mapping data in the UK government: capability
- Policy
- Skills and literacy
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Gavin Freeguard
- Jeni Tennison
- Lisa Allen
As part of our 2021 policy project to support the successful implementation of the National Data Strategy, we take a look at who is responsible for data in government through the lens of capability