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Covid-19
- Ben Snaith
- Deborah Yates
- Jeni Tennison
- Olivier Thereaux
- Renate Samson
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 12/11/2020
ODI Summit 2020: roundup
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Covid-19
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Policy
- Skills and literacy
- Louise Burke
With conversations about data futures being more critical than ever, Louise Burke looks back at ODI Summit 2020
Blog, News 10/11/2020
Datopolis, the ODI board game goes virtual
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Jeni Tennison
- Lucy Knight
- Simon Bullmore
- Violeta Mezeklieva
We are proud to release the online version of our Datapolis board game, completely free, for everyone to play.
Blog, Tender opportunities 10/11/2020

Education open data challenge: the impact of digital access on education during Covid-19 Microsoft and the ODI are proud to announce an Education Open Data Challenge to better understand the relationship of broadband penetration and education
Blog 10/11/2020

Over 1000 people at the ODI Summit 2020 Today the ODI brought over a thousand people from a broad range of industries and over 72 countries together to discuss critical issues around the future of data
Blog 10/11/2020
Data as Culture exhibition: Rules of Engagement
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Hannah Redler Hawes
By seeing people as more than just data points, Rules of Engagement asks those with power to reimagine how we engage with data, advocating for an ethical data future for everyone
Blog, ODI Analyses 10/11/2020
New report: ‘Data about children’s lives in the pandemic’
- Covid-19
A report by the ODI, published today, looks at the impact of the pandemic on children’s lives, and the wellbeing of parents and teachers through the lens of new data made available to the ODI
Blog 09/11/2020
Activating sector change: what we’ve learnt from OpenActive
- Data publishing and use
- Health and physical activity
- Ellen Goodman
- Orsola De Marco
We reflect on the lessons we have learnt through OpenActive, a data access initiative driving innovation in the sport and physical activity sector
Blog 06/11/2020
What is the ideal data future for small projects transforming their sectors?
- Innovation
- Startups
We are looking to the future at the ODI Summit 2020 – Data | Futures, so we asked what a good and bad data future would be for some of the projects on the front line of innovation in their sector
Blog, Podcast 05/11/2020
ODI interviewed on Reasons to be Cheerful podcast
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Policy
- Jack Hardinges
Our very own Jack Hardinges, Head of Data Institutions, was on Ed Millband’s and Geoff Lloyd’s podcast, Reasons to be Cheerful, this week to discuss ideas about how to help steward data for the common good
Blog 05/11/2020
How data access can support innovation in agriculture
- Agriculture and food
- Deborah Yates
Find out how we’re helping to support inclusive agricultural transformation by enabling access to data