Reports

Latest Reports

• Reports 06/08/2019
  

  ARCHANGEL: guaranteeing the integrity of digital archives

  • Emerging tech and AI

  • Olivier Thereaux

  Addressing the challenges around trust, integrity and authenticity of archived records
• Blog, Reports 03/07/2019
  

  What are the links between data infrastructure and trade competitiveness? How can policymakers help boost the exports of data-enabled domestic companies?
• Blog, Reports 20/11/2018
  

  The UK’s geospatial data infrastructure: challenges and opportunities (report)

  • Geospatial data and mapping

  We explore the different types of geospatial data and its economic value; technical and policy trends; and components of the UK’s geospatial data infrastructure
• Reports 26/10/2018
  

  What organisations need in order to share more data: our research

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation

  We speak to businesses about their challenges in data sharing and how they can be supported
• Case study, Reports 04/07/2018
  

  Transport data in the UK and France (report)

  • Transport

  Transport data case studies and ideas for cross-country collaboration in the UK and France.
• Reports 13/06/2018
  

  Personal data in transport: exploring a framework for the future (report)

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Transport

  • Jared Robert Keller
  • Olivier Thereaux

  How journey data helps people, organisations and transport systems make better decisions and find new ways to operate
• Guides, Reports 09/05/2018
  

  How can smart contracts be useful for businesses? (report)

  • Emerging tech and AI

  • James Maddison
  • Jared Robert Keller

  Smart contracts and distributed ledgers might be useful for enabling efficient, trusted interactions, but it depends on context and design
• Guides, Reports 03/05/2018
  

  Registers and collaboration: making lists we can trust (report)

  • Data publishing and use

  • Leigh Dodds

  This report is about registers or lists, and ways of publishing and maintaining them
• Reports 20/04/2018
  

  The role of data in AI business models (report)

  • Emerging tech and AI

  • Jared Robert Keller

  We’ve created a matrix of AI business models to help you to understand the array of models currently used by businesses developing AI systems, and lay out the most commonly expressed reasons for the current trend of restricting access to data
• Reports 09/04/2018
  

  Understanding the impacts of peer-to-peer accommodation, the role of data and data observatories (report)

  • Built environment and housing
  • Data infrastructure
  • Cities

  • Jack Hardinges

  We’ve undertaken a project to understand how data can improve the peer-to-peer accommodation market to support businesses, consumers and communities. As part of this work, we have conducted interviews and desk research to better understand the stakeholders interested in the impact of peer-to-peer accommodation and the impacts they focus on, the role of data in understanding impact and the potential use of a data observatory.
• Reports 09/04/2018
  

  Prototyping with open sports data (report)

  • Built environment and housing
  • Health and physical activity
  • Cities

  • Olivier Thereaux

  Three prototypes exploring the potential of local, open data to support communities and enhance the experience of peer-to-peer accommodation platforms
• Reports 09/04/2018
  

  Data portability and peer-to-peer accommodation: four scenarios for the future (report)

  • Data ethics and privacy

  We’ve been exploring multiple scenarios of imagined futures to help us understand how we move towards a world where people, organisations and communities use data to make better decisions, and are protected against any of its harmful impacts.
• Blog, Reports 05/04/2018
  

  European data economies trade project: background research and mapping The report is a high-level analysis of the data economies of Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium
• Guides, Reports 23/03/2018
  

  Mapping data ecosystems

  • Data infrastructure
  • Peer networks

  • Josh D'Addario

  In this guide, we introduce a tool for documenting and mapping data ecosystems
• Reports 08/03/2018
  

  Exploring interventions to support the peer-to-peer accommodation sector and the role of data (report)

  • Built environment and housing
  • Cities

  • Jack Hardinges

  Many people use peer-to-peer accommodation services to decide where to stay, whether to let a room or how to build a business. To make those decisions, people need data.
• Reports 02/03/2018
  

  Using open data for public services (report)

  • Public service design

  • Helen Desmond
  • Jack Hardinges
  • Peter Wells

  This paper explores how open data can be used in public service delivery and its potential for collaboration, joint problem-solving and open innovation. It highlights where open data has been released by public sector institutions and its effects on delivering public services
• Blog, Reports 04/12/2017
  

  The EU General Data Protection Regulation: opportunities for grocery retail

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Retail and consumer

  Our report explores how the retail sector can work together to turn GDPR from a compliance obligation into an opportunity to build services that meet shoppers needs.
• 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
• 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.
• Reports 20/04/2017
  The state of weather data infrastructure – white paper

  • Weather, energy and environment

  • Leigh Dodds

  This report explores the current state of weather data infrastructure. By looking at the different aspects of the data infrastructure used to collect, access and share weather and climate information, we can better understand challenges
• Reports 31/01/2017
  What works in open data challenges The report explores the case for implementation, explains the key attributes of a challenge prize and provides seven recommendations for prize delivery to help others design, deliver and evaluate open data challenge prizes effectively
• Blog, Reports 07/08/2016
  

  Who owns our data infrastructure?

  • Data infrastructure

  In this paper we explore the question “who owns our data infrastructure – globally, nationally and locally?” We look at what data ownership looks like and what we can expect from those that manage data that is fundamental to a functioning society
• Reports 10/06/2016
  Applying blockchain technology in global data infrastructure

  • Data infrastructure
  • Emerging tech and AI

  An overview of blockchain technology and issues that come with it, for a non-technical audience
• Blog, Reports 20/04/2016
  Research: The economic value of open versus paid data

  • Innovation

  New economic research commissioned by the ODI shows that across all core public sector data assets open data will provide 0.5% of GDP more economic value every year than data that users have to pay for
• Reports 20/04/2016
  Supporting public sector open data leadership Key lessons on supporting public sector open data leadership
• Reports 20/04/2016
  Assessment tools for open data initiatives The report looks at how assessment tools can be used to provide useful insights into the progress, opportunities, risks and challenges of implementing an open data initiative
• Case study, Reports 08/03/2016
  

  Open enterprise: How three big businesses create value with open innovation

  • Agriculture and food
  • Built environment and housing
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Startups

  As businesses get bigger, staying innovative and agile is challenging. This report explores three industry-leading enterprises that have embraced an open approach – open source, open standards, open data, open innovation – to help retain their competitive edge.
• Reports 01/03/2016
  Peer networks for open data leaders

  • Humanitarian response
  • Innovation
  • Peer networks

  This report explores peer networks, their key features and what makes them most effective
• Reports 16/02/2016
  Open data in government: how to bring about change Ensuring your open data initiative is sustainable is essential to start to realise the impact of open data
• Reports 31/05/2015
  Open data means business

  • Innovation

  • Sir Nigel Shadbolt

  UK innovation across sectors and regions
• Reports 27/05/2015
  Improving agriculture and nutrition with open data

  • Agriculture and food

  How open data in different contexts can enable more effective decision making, create innovation and promote transparency
• Reports 28/04/2015
  How to prioritise open data to drive global development With limited resources, how do we decide what data to release?
• Reports 31/03/2015
  Open Data Maturity Model A way to assess how well an organisation publishes and consumes open data, and identifies actions for improvement
• Reports 08/12/2014
  Open data roadmap for the UK 2015 Open data is an essential part of modern policy-making. Here’s why