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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, Case study 24/03/2021
Case study: Sharing data to improve the safety of lives at sea
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Weather, energy and environment
- James Maddison
- Mahad Alassow
The Open Marine Data project is supporting emergency responders to improve access to the data that they collect, to enable innovators to create new tools and approaches and to support emergency responders to make better decisions
Blog, Case study 23/03/2021
How do data institutions emerge? Six short case studies
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Alex Vryzakis
- Jack Hardinges
We provide short case studies on six data institutions, how they were formed and what they do, to inspire those thinking of creating data institutions in the future
Blog, News 22/03/2021
The ODI responds to the UK Statistics Authority Inclusive Data Consultation
- Data publishing and use
- Policy
- Public service design
- Alan Walker
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Emily Sinclair
The Open Data Institute (ODI) response to the UK Statistics Authority Inclusive Data Consultation
Blog, News 18/03/2021
Microsoft and ODI Education Open Data Challenge: meet the judges
- Data publishing and use
- Policy
- Public service design
- Skills and literacy
- Jeni Tennison
Meet the judging panel for the Microsoft and ODI Education Open Data Challenge
Blog, News 12/03/2021
The ODI responds to Green Paper: Transforming public procurement consultation
- Policy
- Alan Walker
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Emily Sinclair
The Open Data Institute (ODI) response to the government green paper ‘Transforming public procurement’
Blog 12/03/2021
Inclusive data: perspectives from a roundtable discussion
- Data ethics and privacy
- Policy
- Alan Walker
- Annalisa Eichholzer
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Emily Sinclair
- Jeni Tennison
Read more about the roundtable we convened on inclusive data, in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Centre for Public Data
Blog, News 10/03/2021
The Open Data Institute and Sopra Steria join forces to embed data ethics in business practices
- Data ethics and privacy
- Skills and literacy
The ODI partners with Sopra Steria to put data ethics on the agenda
Blog 09/03/2021
How trust is a key to the value of data
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Olivier Thereaux
Trust matters to a healthy data ecosystem, but how much does it matter? We worked with Frontier Economics to find out
Blog 04/03/2021
Longlist announced for Microsoft Education Open Data Challenge
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Skills and literacy
- Alex Vryzakis
- Tara Lee
We introduce the entries for the Education Open Data Challenge award, launched at the ODI Summit
Blog 19/02/2021
Data institutions in low- and middle-income countries
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Jack Hardinges
- Mahad Alassow
- Mark Boyd
Introducing our work with the World Bank exploring data institutions across low- and middle-income countries