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Blog 04/12/2017 Four UK teams win funding to redesign public services with open data
- Public administration services
The ODI is working with four teams from different parts of the UK, to support them in redesigning specific public services with open data.
Blog 22/11/2017 Autumn Budget: the ODI welcomes measures to open up land data – citizens, companies and services to benefit
- Data infrastructure
- Jeni Tennison
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
By opening up mapping data – previously only accessible to large companies who could afford it – the UK government will enable small businesses, communities and citizens to use it, bringing wide benefits
Article 08/11/2017 Public procurement: startups improve process
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public administration services
- Startups
- Tom Hunter
Every year, governments spend over $9.5 trillion through contracts with companies to provide everything from pencils and paper to building infrastructure such as bridges, schools, and hospitals. A third of government expenditure is on public contracts.
Article 03/11/2017 Exploring human-data interaction challenges
- Emerging tech
- Public administration services
- Science and research
- Search and discovery
- Laura Koesten
Finding and selecting data can be complicated and inconsistent. ODI PhD student Laura Koesten shares her plans to map problems within data search from a user’s perspective
Guides 03/11/2017 What is 'open data' and why should we care?
- Banking and finance
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech
- Innovation
- Peer networks
- Public administration services
- Search and discovery
- Cities
- Transport
- Weather, energy and environment
- Anna Scott
What is ‘open data’, and how does it fit in? Here are 10 things you need to know…
Blog 01/11/2017 Why data-enabled insight is the key to an active nation
- Health and physical activity
- Startups
- Richard Norris
As nonprofit physical activity body ukactive this week launches the second iteration of its Fit-Tech accelerator ActiveLab, ukactive CEO Steven Ward explains how the benefits of open data can help tackle the global physical inactivity crisis
Reports 01/11/2017 Data entrepreneurship: exploring successful business models with open data
- Innovation
- Startups
- Ryan Goodman
This paper presents lessons on the role of open data in successful business models, based on the ODI’s experience incubating startups and on research carried out as part of the Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE) programme
Blog 26/10/2017 Open Banking: we're looking for opportunities for collaboration
- Banking and finance
Open innovation will help drive efficiencies and competition in financial services through open standards and open data
Topic Overview 26/10/2017 Smart cities overview
- Cities
Smart cities in focus: enabling individuals and communities to improve their lives Demands on cities are increasing everywhere. As a result, they are becoming more sophisticated in how they support the billions of people, biological ecosystems, systems infrastructure, buildings and vehicles that move and grow within them. As technology transforms the way transport, health, education, retail, energy, waste, water and other infrastructure works, the data and devices we use to understand them and communicate with each other will become part of our daily routine (whether actively or passively).
Blog 24/10/2017 Exploring how data can improve PDFs: our work so far
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Olivier Thereaux
Having recently released research on how PDFs can work better with data, ODI Leeds Head of Data Tom Forth and ODI Head of Tech Olivier Thereaux share their working and aims for how the work may develop with input from the community
Blog 23/10/2017 ODI sport sector initiative OpenActive builds momentum
- Health and physical activity
- Richard Norris
OpenActive, the ODI’s sport and physical activity sector initiative, has successfully established the foundations for open data to help people get active.
Blog 19/10/2017 UK parties must show voters their vision for data and technology
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech
UK parties need to use data and technology to improve local governments, economies and services across the country.
Blog 18/10/2017 Using data to build resilient cities in Africa: introducing ODI mini-grant projects
- Humanitarian response
In August, we announced the six projects shortlisted for our mini-grants programme, to implement data-enabled projects in Africa
Blog 17/10/2017 ODI secures £6m to advance data innovation
- Built environment and housing
- Data ethics and privacy
- Emerging tech
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public administration services
- Cities
- Transport
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
News 17/10/2017 ODI secures £6m to advance data innovation
- Emerging tech
- 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
Reports 10/10/2017 Deutsche Bank report: Using data to take an open approach to investment banking
- Banking and finance
- Innovation
- Startups
Investment banking is one of the world’s oldest and most data-rich industries. It provides a large range of financial products and services to businesses, governments and investors, helping them to grow and manage risk. The sector is undergoing significant change, adopting new technologies and regulations, transforming organisational cultures and reducing costs.
Blog 06/10/2017 Open data publishing: towards better tools and processes
- Emerging tech
- Search and discovery
- Skills and literacy
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Olivier Thereaux
How the ODI can help organisations publish open data for the better
Blog 05/10/2017 ODI Toolbox application experiments: from Comma Chameleon to Data Curator
- Emerging tech
- Stephen Fortune
ODI Code Fellow Stephen Fortune explains how the ODI Australian Network – an ODI Node – built on ODI Toolbox application Comma Chameleon’s code to enhance the application while working in the spirit of open source software development.
Blog 13/09/2017 Why we need the data ethics canvas
- Data ethics and privacy
- Science and research
The Data Ethics Canvas is for organisations to identify and manage potential data ethics considerations
Blog 29/08/2017 Survey: What's your experience of solving problems with data? A survey looking to uncover the real problems people experience with data, and to help rectify the situation
Blog 25/08/2017 Call for tenders: collaborative data innovation projects between French and UK cities
- Data infrastructure
The ODI will grant three worth £20,000 for proposals that connect and/or encourage collaborative data between French and UK cities.
Blog 23/08/2017 Improving public services with data: fund launched for service delivery redesign
- Built environment and housing
- Public administration services
The ODI explores how using data better could transform public services and help them meet our needs as citizens
Blog 23/08/2017 How is peer-to-peer accommodation regulated around the world
- Built environment and housing
- Pauline L’Hénaff
Regulation for peer-to-peer accommodation is being discussed around the world, but data isn’t being used effectively to inform, design and implement it. We are researching how data could be better used to help regulate the peer-to-peer accommodation sector. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.
Blog 17/08/2017 Invitation to tender: Stimulus fund for service redesign
- Public administration services
Stimulus fund for a number of consortia organisations. Each consortium must include at least one UK public sector organisation.
Blog 11/08/2017 Ukraine Open Data Challenge: finalists revealed
- Innovation
- Richard Stirling
As part of a partnership between the Eurasia foundation and Ukrainian open data incubator 1991, the Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services (TAPAS) organised a challenge event over one weekend to help Ukrainian startups innovate with open data.
Blog 11/08/2017 How could data be used better to help regulate peer-to-peer accommodation?
- Built environment and housing
- Transport
- Pauline L’Hénaff
The ODI is going to develop and prototype new models of gathering and using data for regulation in the peer-to-peer accommodation sector
Blog 11/08/2017 Building open data capacity in Tanzania - the support of two years of training As part of our mission to help businesses and governments around the world get data to people who need it, we have worked with the World Bank over the last two years to provide training and support to the Tanzania Open Data Initiative
Blog 08/08/2017 Invitation to tender: company to research and develop approaches to and tools for the collaborative creation and maintenance of registers as open data To research and develop good practices in and tools to support the development of collaborative registers
Blog 07/08/2017 Using open data for economic impact in Nigeria Last year in Edo State, Nigeria, the Edo AgriHub project (EDAH) began to solve problems in agriculture by improving data collection. Nkechi Okwuone, EDAH project manager, reflects on managing the project and plans for future
Blog, Guides 05/08/2017 The Data Ethics Canvas
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public administration services
- Skills and literacy
The ODI has developed a new approach for organisations to identify and manage data ethics considerations: the Data Ethics Canvas
Blog 04/08/2017 Open Call: Open Data Leaders' Network 9-13 October 2017 The ODLN calls for applicants working with open data in government to take part in an exciting five-day programme in London full of expert-led training, field trips and peer support
Blog 04/08/2017 Invitation to tender: Explore design patterns for open APIs through prototyping and user research
- Data ethics and privacy
- Open standards and open APIs
The objective of this work is to explore design patterns for open APIs that enable people, and the organisations they authorise, to access data about them
Blog 03/08/2017 Calling startups in ASEAN solving problems with data!
- Startups
Are you a startup or social enterprise solving real-life problems with data? Apply to join the ASEAN programme
Blog 03/08/2017 Invitation to Tender: Companies to develop open source tools for open data publishing To develop new tools or significant incremental improvements to existing tools that are used to publish open data
Blog 31/07/2017 Where are the UK's most active tech innovation cities
- Emerging tech
- Anna Scott
An interesting analysis on where British innovation is flourishing and across which sectors
Blog 25/07/2017 The ODI hosts finalists of the Open Contracting Innovation Challenge
- Innovation
- Public administration services
- Tom Hunter
Key learnings from the incubation phase of the Open Contracting Innovation Challenge
Blog 21/07/2017 ODI/OD4D Mini-Grants
- Agriculture and food
Shortlist announced for the Open Data for Developing Network initiative
Blog 21/07/2017 Invitation to tender: Companies to help make it easier for people to understand UK technology clusters
- Emerging tech
- Public administration services
Identifying unavailable data that could be made open to help improve decisions made using data about UK technology clusters
Blog 19/07/2017 Applications now open for new Europe-wide data accelerator Data accelerator opportunity for startups looking to solve business problems and innovate their products/services
Blog 18/07/2017 Invitation to tender: companies experienced with developing open standards for data to document their tools and processes
- Open standards and open APIs
Providing guidance to organisations that need to develop open standards for data
Blog 11/07/2017 Help us to understand how people understand and describe data
- Science and research
- Search and discovery
- Laura Koesten
Have you been involved in a project about data? If so, get in touch
Blog 07/07/2017 Meet ODI Code Fellow Stephen Fortune
- James Smith (Dr)
- Stephen Fortune
Stephen tells us a bit about his journey from ODI Labs intern to code fellow, how embracing the ‘developer’s mindset’ and collaborative maintenance helps him look after the ODI Toolbox
Blog 27/06/2017 Open call: Organisation to conduct survey on personal data in the UK retail sector
- Data ethics and privacy
Are you or your organisation interested in helping the retail sector understand shoppers’ expectations?
Blog 23/06/2017 The value of open data for the private sector
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Retail and consumer
- Skills and literacy
- David Beardmore
How the private sector need to continue embracing open data for a fair and sustainable data economy
Blog 22/06/2017 The New Observatory: A creative collaboration between FACT and the ODI
- Hannah Foulds
- Dr Julie Freeman
The exhibition brings together an array of artists exploring new and alternative modes of measuring, predicting and sensing the world
Blog 22/06/2017 Observatories of ourselves
- Anna Scott
- Hannah Foulds
- Hannah Redler Hawes
The exhibition co-produced with Fact, Liverpool makes one think what the roles of analysis, understanding and imagination have in a world of constant observation
Blog 21/06/2017 The ODI 5 years on: a time to celebrate and reflect
- Jeni Tennison
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
The ODI’s first five years, through the eyes of CEO, Jeni Tennison
Blog 14/06/2017 Six Open Contracting Innovation Challenge finalists win $5k ahead of $30k Grand Prize
- Innovation
- Tom Hunter
OCIC was launched to stimulate and gather ideas that strengthen the integrity and effectiveness of public procurement
Blog 08/06/2017 Testing the Data Ethics Canvas: what we've learned
- Data ethics and privacy
- Ellen Broad
The canvas exists to help organisations consider data ethics as they develop data projects and services
Blog 07/06/2017 ODI mini-grant programme: open call for open data innovators in Africa
- Agriculture and food
- Humanitarian response
Opportunity available to lead a project to solve problems with data in Africa

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