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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 15/04/2021
The weird and the wonderful: reflections on the Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities report
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Public service design
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
In this blog post, Dr Milly Zimeta, the ODI’s Head of Policy, looks at the Sewell report on structural biases and on digital technology, focusing on how we can all innovate in data policy and data practice for transformative results
Blog 15/04/2021
Objective data? Reflections on the Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities report
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Public service design
- Jeni Tennison
In this blog post, Dr Jeni Tennison OBE, ODI’s Vice President, looks at the objectivity of the data used in the Sewell report by the Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities
Blog, News 15/04/2021
From climate change to coronavirus: the artists and startups using data to tackle misinformation challenge
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Covid-19
- Startups
- Weather, energy and environment
- Ellen Goodman
- Orsola De Marco
Data innovation hub MediaFutures announces the first 19 projects to receive funding and support to develop their ideas to combat misinformation
Blog, Consultation response/call for evidence, News 07/04/2021
The ODI responds to the CMA's consultation on open banking
- Banking and finance
- Josh D'Addario
The Open Data Institute (ODI) response to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) consultation on ‘The future oversight of the CMA’s open banking remedies’
Blog 31/03/2021
Open Cities – international roundtable summary note
- Policy
- Public service design
- Cities
- Ben Snaith
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Emily Sinclair
- Flor Serale
- James Maddison
A summary note of the international roundtable discussion which we convened with city stakeholders to seed a peer community of senior city officials and city policymakers from around the world
Blog 31/03/2021
New report: ‘Data on teachers’ lives during the pandemic’
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
This report looks at how the pandemic has affected teachers and pupils across the country during various lockdown periods
Blog, Guides, Tools 30/03/2021
Introducing the ODI Sustainable Data Access Workbook
- Ben Snaith
- Charlotte Mitchell
- Diana Szasz
- Joe Massey
- Sonia Duarte
The Sustainable Data Access Workbook is an ODI tool designed to support organisations that steward data to make better decisions about their revenue models
Blog, Guides, Tools 30/03/2021
Introducing the ODI Trustworthy Data Stewardship Guidebook
- Charlotte Mitchell
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Elea Himmelsbach
- Fionntán O'Donnell
- Jared Robert Keller
- Jonathan Wilson
- Olivier Thereaux
- Sonia Duarte
We introduce our Trustworthy Data Stewardship Guidebook in beta form and ask for your input
Blog, Guides, Tools 30/03/2021
Introducing the ODI Data Landscape Playbook
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Elea Himmelsbach
- Emily Sinclair
- Flor Serale
- James Maddison
- Joe Massey
- Josh D'Addario
- Olivier Thereaux
The Open Data Institute (ODI) launches the beta version of its Data Landscape Playbook and calls for input
Blog, Case study 26/03/2021
R&D data access stimulus fund – data sharing to lower environmental impact, improve public services and save lives
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Weather, energy and environment
- Elea Himmelsbach
We reflect on our learnings from the R&D data access stimulus fund, and present case studies on the seven recipients of the fund