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Blog, News 18/03/2020
COVID-19 pandemic and the ODI
- Covid-19
Like many businesses, at the ODI we are working on our response to the pandemic and of course, the safety and wellbeing of our staff, partners and members is paramount
Blog, News 16/03/2020
Covid-19: Making data and models open is part of the fight against it – governments must act now
- Covid-19
- Data infrastructure
- Health and physical activity
- Policy
- Public service design
- Science and research
- Jeni Tennison
Our CEO Jeni Tennison shares why governments around the world should be openly publishing the data and models that underpin their decision-making around the Covid-19 pandemic
Blog, News 12/03/2020
Budget 2020: Investment in science and technology needs to bring about strong data infrastructure for the UK to thrive
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Jeni Tennison
ODI’s CEO Jeni Tennison shares the ODI”s response to the UK government’s Budget this week, focusing on investment in data infrastructure
Blog, News, Tender opportunities 05/03/2020

Invitation to tender: Economic impact assessment of the ODI’s R&D programme Invitation to tender: Study of the economic impact of the ODI’s R&D programme
Blog, News 02/03/2020
Five projects awarded funding and support to improve safety
- Built environment and housing
- Deborah Yates
With the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, the ODI is pleased to announce the projects selected for a new stimulus fund that help increase access to data and drive innovation in the engineering sector with an emphasis on improving safety
Tender opportunities 17/02/2020
Experienced company to redesign the OpenActive website
- Health and physical activity
- Ryan Goodman
We’re looking for an organisation to help us maximise the impact and reach of the OpenActive engagement activities by improving the design and sign-posting of content on the OpenActive website
Blog, News 09/01/2020
Data enabled public services need funding to scale, but better tools are also part of the answer
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Public service design
- Ben Snaith
- James Maddison
- Leigh Dodds
- Miranda Marcus
Data is playing an increasingly important role in the transformation of public services. Despite difficult financial times, the plethora of data now available is enabling us to rethink how services are developed to tackle specific public needs
Blog, News 18/12/2019
Jeni Tennison on Amazon’s access to the NHS website – how has it come to this?
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Health and physical activity
- Policy
- Jeni Tennison
Has the Department for Health and Social Care acted outside its authority by partnering with Amazon? What does this mean for future contracts between the NHS and big tech?
Blog, News 21/11/2019
Sir Nigel Shadbolt on privacy, the ODI at seven and ethical AI virtue signalling
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
“I believe our work remains just as relevant and important. The burgeoning data ecosystem, the complexities of technology and the challenge of ethics keep us busy; there is plenty of unfinished business.”
Blog, News 13/11/2019
The murky world of political adverts on social media may damage our democracy
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
People have a right to know where political adverts originate, who is paying for them and how they are being targeted
Blog, News 12/11/2019
Success celebrated at ODI Summit with startup programme awards
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Peer networks
- Startups
An entrepreneur, a startup and a data provider received awards today at the ODI Summit from Sir Nigel Shadbolt, the UK’s AI expert and ODI co-founder, to recognise their outstanding success during the Data Pitch programme
Blog, News 12/11/2019
ODI partners with Pinsent Masons to explore next stage of data trusts
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
International law firm, Pinsent Masons, has joined the our Commercial Partnership Programme, a peer group of forward-thinking organisations who share a common vision of a collaborative and open future
Blog, News 12/11/2019
Nearly 9 in 10 people think it’s important that organisations use personal data ethically
- Data ethics and privacy
The ODI calls on companies and governments to build trust by engaging with their customers and citizens about how they use personal data
Blog, News, Tender opportunities 28/10/2019
Apply to our stimulus fund: Using data to improve safety in the engineering sector
- Built environment and housing
- Innovation
- Leigh Dodds
Apply to our new stimulus fund that will support projects that help increase access to data and drive innovation in the engineering sector with an emphasis on improving safety
Blog, News 10/10/2019
Top engineering organisations sign data manifesto to improve safety in the sector
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Health and physical activity
New funding announced for projects increasing access to data and driving innovation in the sector
Blog, News 17/09/2019
Data About Us: ‘the people’ know and care more than they are given credit for
- Data ethics and privacy
- Policy
- Anna Scott
- Renate Samson
We share findings from our project exploring how people feel about data rights
Blog, News 15/07/2019
We urge UK government to overhaul its use of data
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
The UK government is missing the opportunity to transform its use of data, and risks falling behind other countries if it does not invest now, according to civil society groups – including the ODI
News, Tender opportunities 08/07/2019

Invitation to tender [OAP3-a]: technical expertise and support for the OpenActive initiative Help develop .NET tools to support our partners in implementing the OpenActive Open Booking API specification
Tender opportunities 03/07/2019

Invitation to tender [OAP2-01]: Technical expertise and support for the OpenActive initiative (data publication tools) We’re looking for an organisation to refactor and extend OpenActive’s existing data-publication tools to support the enhanced functionality, wider array, and greater number of OpenActive data publishers now joining the initiative
Blog, News, Tender opportunities 03/07/2019

Invitation to tender [OAP-b]: Technical expertise and support for the OpenActive initiative We’re looking for an organisation to help us improve existing software and develop new software as an integrated infrastructural tool suite
Blog, News 30/04/2019
Could data be the key to solving England's inactivity problem?
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Health and physical activity
- Richard Norris
Today Sport England and Mims Davies, Minister for Sport and Civil Society, have called on the sport and physical activity sector to embrace the digital revolution, announcing a commitment of £1.5 million of National Lottery funding to the ODI to help providers innovate using open data
Blog, News 15/04/2019
Huge appetite for data trusts, according to new ODI research
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
The ODI is today launching the findings of our data trust research programme and at high-profile event at the Royal Society of Arts, attended by Head of the UK Government Office for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Sana Khareghani and Theo Blackwell, London’s Chief Digital Officer
Blog, News 11/04/2019
From digital twins to open cities: find out about our new innovation projects
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Built environment and housing
- Data ethics and privacy
- Emerging tech and AI
- Health and physical activity
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Retail and consumer
- Science and research
- Search and discovery
- Startups
- Transport
- Weather, energy and environment
- Miranda Marcus
New innovation projects will explore how to use data to support city data ecosystems, collaboratively maintained datasets and competitiveness through data
Blog, News 21/03/2019
Trust in data is 'new currency' for the Co-op
- Agriculture and food
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Retail and consumer
- Skills and literacy
The Co-op share how they’re progressing against their mission to be ‘trusted with data’
Blog, News 13/03/2019
Furman Review: Access to data is a new tool against monopoly
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
The ODI responds to the Digital Competition Expert Panel’s new report
Blog, News, Tender opportunities 05/03/2019
Invitation to tender: Study of the economic and social returns of 'Open standards for data'
- Data publishing and use
- Open standards and open APIs
- Miranda Marcus
Invitation to tender: Study of the economic and social returns of ‘Open standards for data’
Blog, News, Tender opportunities 05/03/2019
Invitation to tender: Study of the process and outcomes from the ODI's innovation programme
- Innovation
- Miranda Marcus
Study of the economic and social returns from the ODI’s innovation programme, phase 2
Blog, News 31/01/2019
UK’s first data trusts to tackle illegal wildlife trade and food waste
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Cities
- Anna Scott
- Helen Desmond
We’re exploring how data trusts could solve challenges by enabling increased access to data while retaining trust
Blog, News 19/12/2018
The ODI responds to the Digital Competition Expert Panel
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Retail and consumer
We respond to HM Treasury’s call for evidence on its Digital Competition Expert Panel, focusing on social benefits and the need for more data to fuel better services
Blog, News 20/11/2018
Lloyd’s Register Foundation and the ODI launch data initiative to make our railways, roads and power stations safer
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
Using shared and open data to improve safety in our built infrastructure and across society
Blog, News 20/11/2018

We call on the government to work with Google, Apple and Uber to publish more map data and support the UK’s emerging technologies How geospatial data can support the UK’s emerging technologies
Blog, News 20/11/2018
Geospatial data is infrastructure: our response to the UK's National Geospatial Strategy
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Jack Hardinges
Our response to the Geospatial Commission’s call for evidence focuses on the need to recognise that geospatial data is infrastructure
Blog, News 20/11/2018
UK’s first ‘data trust’ pilots to be led by the ODI in partnership with central and local government
- Data ethics and privacy
- Emerging tech and AI
We will lead two pilot projects with the Office for AI, examining how a “data trust” could increase access to data while retaining trust
Blog, News 06/06/2018
Open call for an embedded artist
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Hannah Redler Hawes
We are inviting an artist to explore the concept of data trust and sharing
Blog, News 01/05/2018
Mumsnet Founder Justine Roberts, and fintech expert Anna Mazzone join the ODI as Non-Executive Directors
- Anna Mazzone
- Justine Roberts
The ODI is excited to welcome two new non Executive Directors to its board: Justine Roberts, CEO of Mumsnet, and Anna Mazzone, a Fintech and risk management specialist and current Managing Director at Aravo Solutions Inc.
News 05/04/2018
The ODI secures $2.5m from Omidyar Network to help deliver its mission to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem
- Data infrastructure
- Peer networks
- Helen Desmond
The Open Data Institute (ODI) has secured $2.5 million in funding from the Governance and Citizen Engagement Initiative at Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm established by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
Blog, News 12/02/2018
ODI survey reveals British consumer attitudes to sharing personal data
- Data ethics and privacy
- Health and physical activity
- Retail and consumer
The Open Data Institute has released findings from new consumer research, conducted online by YouGov, revealing current attitudes of British adults online towards sharing personal data. The full dataset can be viewed here under an open licence
Blog, News 14/12/2017
ODI welcomes UK National Infrastructure Commission recognition that data is infrastructure
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Transport
- Leigh Dodds
ODI welcomes UK National Infrastructure Commission recognition of data as a new form of infrastructure and that open data is necessary for innovation.
News 17/10/2017
ODI secures £6m to advance data innovation
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
The ODI will use the funds to focus on projects that it believes will progress strategically important areas: building data infrastructure, improving data literacy, stimulating data innovation and building trust in the use of data
Blog, News 15/07/2015
Citymapper executive to governments: 'Open more data so we can improve your cities'
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Anna Scott
The size and number of businesses built on open data is growing every year. Citymapper is one of the best-known open data success stories