Why is data sharing important in the private sector?
The ODI is engaging with private-sector companies to show how sharing data can positively impact the bottom line.
We are already seeing open approaches to data happening in sectors such as physical activity, banking, and pharmaceuticals.
This project seeks to demonstrate the business value of sharing data to a sector, network or individual business, looking at how an organisation might benefit in terms of innovation, network capabilities, and brand positioning.
Our approach
We are using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to help demonstrate the value of sharing data in the private sector.
We are collecting case studies on how businesses share data to great effect; mapping data-sharing ecosystems; and engaging with partners, ODI members, and our wider network to develop a nuanced understanding of data sharing in this context.
Our aim is to demonstrate the value of sharing data in the private sector and encourage more private sector organisations to explore data-sharing possibilities and the potential benefits in making a move towards ‘openness.’
Key outputs
Read our report, summarising our research exploring how businesses are sharing data in ways that directly and indirectly deliver value: ‘Sharing data to create value in the private sector’
We share our top seven reasons why businesses should be sharing data
Find out how businesses can share data – they need to consider ethics, anonymisation and standards to do it right.
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Case study (private sector) 16/04/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data for improving market reach
- Data publishing and use
- Health and physical activity
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 16/04/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data to build trust
- Agriculture and food
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data in supply chain optimisation
- Data publishing and use
- Transport
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data to drive open innovation
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data in regulated environments
- Banking and finance
- Data publishing and use
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data for benchmarking and insights
- Built environment and housing
- Data publishing and use
- Transport
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data to address sector challenges
- Data publishing and use
- Weather, energy and environment
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
Through our tools, training, research and consultancy, we can help you to also discover the benefits of data sharing.
The ODI’s Data Toolkit for Business is a set of collaborative tools that will help businesses unlock the value of data
Get involved
If you are a start-up, SME, or corporation and have benefitted from sharing data, we would like your help in validating our initial assumptions. And we would love to find out more about your experiences in building the internal business case for sharing data. Get in contact.
Case studies
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Case study (private sector) 16/04/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data for improving market reach
- Data publishing and use
- Health and physical activity
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 16/04/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data to build trust
- Agriculture and food
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data in supply chain optimisation
- Data publishing and use
- Transport
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data to drive open innovation
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data in regulated environments
- Banking and finance
- Data publishing and use
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data for benchmarking and insights
- Built environment and housing
- Data publishing and use
- Transport
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
Case study: The value of sharing data to address sector challenges
- Data publishing and use
- Weather, energy and environment
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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Helpful Robots or Pink-Eyed Terminators Our CEO Jeni Tennison delivered this year’s annual lecture at the Information Law and Policy Annual Lecture and Conference 2019
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Blog 26/11/2019
Data flows in international trade: what are the governance options?
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
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Blog 22/11/2019
Businesses need diverse skills to get the most from data
- Skills and literacy
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Simon Bullmore
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Blog, News 21/11/2019
Sir Nigel Shadbolt on privacy, the ODI at seven and ethical AI virtue signalling
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
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Blog 20/11/2019
Collaborative data projects: what we learned by contributing to them How our hands-on research helped us develop our best-practice guide
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Blog, News 13/11/2019
The murky world of political adverts on social media may damage our democracy
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
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Blog, News 12/11/2019
Success celebrated at ODI Summit with startup programme awards
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Peer networks
- Startups
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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
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Blog 12/11/2019
Copy That? Surplus Data in an Age of Repetitive Duplication
- Hannah Redler Hawes
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Blog, News, ODI Analyses 12/11/2019
Nearly 9 in 10 people think it’s important that organisations use personal data ethically
- Data ethics and privacy
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Blog 24/10/2019
Service design: bringing internal communications and visual design together
- Public service design
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Blog 22/10/2019
Policymakers need access to the metadata of trade agreements to facilitate international trade
- Policy
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Blog 22/10/2019
Digital twins: needs, challenges and understanding
- Emerging tech and AI
- Search and discovery
- Cities
- Sonia Duarte
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Blog, Guides 21/10/2019
Using data ethically: tips from four influential organisations
- Data ethics and privacy
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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
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Blog 09/10/2019
Discovering the future of the London Datastore
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Cities
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 09/10/2019
A manifesto for sharing engineering data
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Cities
- Transport
- James Maddison
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Blog 08/10/2019
Two years on from the Digital Republic Bill: reflections on the French data landscape
- Data ethics and privacy
- Peer networks
- Public service design
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 27/09/2019
Launching the collaborative data maintenance guidebook
- Data publishing and use
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Blog 27/09/2019
ODI Summit 2019 accessibility fund This year, we are pleased to be able to offer an accessibility fund for people who would like to come to the summit, but are in some way limited in their ability to do so
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Blog 24/09/2019
Sharing models between ‘digital twins’
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Open standards and open APIs
- Cities
- Fionntán O'Donnell
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Blog 23/09/2019
How can a business gain value from data sharing?
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
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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
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Blog, Explainers 14/09/2019
Why should we care about data ethics?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Policy
- Skills and literacy
- Simon Bullmore
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Blog 05/09/2019
Take part in our data ethics survey
- Data ethics and privacy
- Hannah Foulds
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Blog 27/08/2019
Data Access Map: We want your feedback
- Data publishing and use
- Jared Robert Keller
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Blog 31/07/2019
How Nationwide is using open banking to help the 'financially squeezed'
- Banking and finance
- Hannah Foulds
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Blog 23/07/2019
Do cities have access to the private sector data they need to make effective decisions?
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Cities
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 22/07/2019
What affects the flow of data-enabled international trade?
- Banking and finance
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Policy
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Blog 19/07/2019
How far Open Banking has come: our five takeaways
- Banking and finance
- Josh D'Addario
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Blog 17/07/2019
The ODI’s submission to the UK National Data Strategy
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
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Blog, News 15/07/2019
We urge UK government to overhaul its use of data
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
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Blog 15/07/2019
How can we better model data policy?
- Innovation
- Policy
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Blog 15/07/2019
Innovation: using old ideas to create new ones To build a model to explore and measure the effects of data sharing on innovation, we first had to decide what innovation is and how it’s done
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Blog 15/07/2019
What effect does data portability have in an agent-based model of the data economy? Find out what happens when we increase data portability in our agent-based model
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Blog 15/07/2019
Economics of information Our agent-based model (ABM) used some of the most novel ideas in economics research to examine the links between data sharing and innovation
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Blog 15/07/2019
How we developed a model of data sharing in the economy Find out how we got to grips with developing an agent-based model (ABM) as part of our research project, and what we learned from the process
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Blog 12/07/2019
Smart cities are decades away: but open cities are within reach
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Cities
- Ben Snaith
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Blog 09/07/2019
Modelling the risks of a data trust using Pokemon Go
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Public service design
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Blog 09/07/2019
Insights from successful collaborative maintenance projects
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Sonia Duarte
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Blog 04/07/2019
All hands on deck: we've updated the Data Access Map
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Open standards and open APIs
- Search and discovery
- Jack Hardinges
- Jared Robert Keller
- Vicky Hallam
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Blog, Reports 03/07/2019
What are the links between data infrastructure and trade competitiveness?
- Policy
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Blog 02/07/2019
Creating a national 'digital twin'
- Deborah Yates
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 01/07/2019
Using 'Open Standards for Data' in the energy sector
- Weather, energy and environment
- Ben Snaith
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 26/06/2019
Publishing data with purpose in Serbia
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
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Blog 13/06/2019
For stronger data rights, we must start with a shared language of data We want to build a language around data that people can engage with to help strengthen our rights
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Blog 04/06/2019
Collaboration with data: do tools support what people need?
- Data publishing and use
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Blog 29/05/2019
Sharing data with other organisations: what’s the payoff?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Skills and literacy
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Blog 23/05/2019
How do we encourage the sharing of data to increase safety?
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
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Blog 22/05/2019
Collaborative data maintenance: how can we enable shared curation of high-quality data?
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Search and discovery
- Skills and literacy
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Blog, Guides, Tools 14/05/2019
Data and Public Services Business Case Canvas
- Public service design
- Ben Snaith
- James Maddison
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Blog 13/05/2019
How to design to scale: lessons about local innovation
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public service design
- Skills and literacy
- Ben Snaith
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Blog 07/05/2019
Expanding the global fight against misinformation with technology
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 07/05/2019
How to understand and monitor a city data ecosystem to help make better decisions
- Cities
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 30/04/2019
Anonymisation and synthetic data: towards trustworthy data
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Skills and literacy
- Olivier Thereaux
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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
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Blog 25/04/2019
Data and diversity: views on approaches and 'uncomfortable truths'
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Public service design
- Skills and literacy
- Rebecca Ghani
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Blog 24/04/2019
How we used the 'styles of government' tool to explore trade competitiveness
- Policy
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Blog 15/04/2019
Data trusts: what’s the economic function?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Public service design
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Blog 15/04/2019
Greater London Authority and Royal Borough of Greenwich pilot: What happened when we applied a data trust
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Cities
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Blog 15/04/2019
Illegal wildlife trade pilot: What happened when we applied a data trust
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Science and research
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Blog 15/04/2019
Data trusts: legal and governance considerations (report)
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Public service design
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Blog 15/04/2019
Data trusts: what legal landscape do we need? (report)
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Public service design
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Blog 15/04/2019
Food waste pilot: What happened when we applied a data trust
- Agriculture and food
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Public service design
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Blog 15/04/2019
Data trusts: how decisions are made about data sharing (report)
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Public service design
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Blog, News 15/04/2019
Huge appetite for data trusts, according to new ODI research
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
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Blog 15/04/2019
Data trusts: will certification work? (report)
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Public service design
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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
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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
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Blog, News 13/03/2019
Furman Review: Access to data is a new tool against monopoly
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
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Blog 26/02/2019
Convening the Data Trust Exploration Group
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 22/02/2019
Not Neutrality: What does fair really mean for service users?
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Public service design
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Blog 21/02/2019
Open Data Day: Dr Dave is here to cure what ails you
- 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
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Hannah Foulds
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Blog, Guides 21/02/2019
New tool for city leaders and urban planners to ‘get ready for data’
- Public service design
- Cities
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Blog 07/02/2019
A match made in heaven: how ‘digital twins’ can help bring a better built environment
- Data infrastructure
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Blog 07/02/2019
The ODI and data trusts: how our projects will work
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
- Vicky Hallam
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Blog 01/02/2019
Using geospatial data: what you need to know about licences
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Deborah Yates
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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
- Helen Desmond
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Blog 31/01/2019
Designing a data trust for London
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Sonia Duarte
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Blog 24/01/2019
How do organisations perceive the risks of re-identification?
- Data ethics and privacy
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Blog, Videos 11/01/2019
ODI Summit 2018: How can we design for fairness?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Ben Snaith
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Blog, Guides 20/12/2018
GeoJson schema publishing: a prototype
- Data publishing and use
- Geospatial data and mapping
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Blog, News 19/12/2018
The ODI responds to the Digital Competition Expert Panel
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Retail and consumer
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Blog 18/12/2018
Exploring open geospatial data in local government
- Geospatial data and mapping
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Videos 17/12/2018
Video: Building trust in data and tech
- Data ethics and privacy
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Videos 17/12/2018
Video: OpenStreetMap's view of the economic and humanitarian impact of geospatial data
- Geospatial data and mapping
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Blog 17/12/2018
Join a group to openly explore data trusts We are working with the UK government’s Office for AI to pilot the UK’s first data trusts and we plan to set up a working group to see if we can all learn together
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Blog 17/12/2018
How Ukraine became an open data pioneer
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Cities
- James Maddison
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Blog 12/12/2018
Using data to change a sector: what we learned
- Ben Snaith
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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
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Blog 20/11/2018
'Dystopians just wanna have fun': ODI's artist in residence on need for openness and accountability
- Arts, culture and heritage
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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
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Blog, Reports 20/11/2018
The UK’s geospatial data infrastructure: challenges and opportunities (report)
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Policy
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Blog 20/11/2018
What we learned from our survey of how local government is publishing and using geospatial data
- Geospatial data and mapping
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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
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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
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Blog 16/11/2018
Exploring good common principles for a digital identity system
- Data ethics and privacy
- Retail and consumer
- Ben Snaith
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Blog 13/11/2018
Even ‘dry’ data can mobilise citizens, says service design expert
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Cities
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Blog 12/11/2018
Open research tools for R&D: how we commissioned and use them
- Science and research
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Blog 09/11/2018
Anonymisation: the data controller's best friend, or cause for headaches?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Skills and literacy
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 06/11/2018
Civil engineer and careers coach Georgia Thompson on the business benefits of diversity
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Skills and literacy
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Blog 02/11/2018
Data Access Archipelago: mapping the myriad ways we share data
- Data publishing and use
- Search and discovery
- Jared Robert Keller
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Blog 26/10/2018
Why businesses aren’t sharing more data
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Search and discovery
- Startups
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Blog 19/10/2018
Defining a 'data trust'
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 18/10/2018
Challenges in using blockchains to build trust in digital archiving
- Emerging tech and AI
- Jared Robert Keller
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Blog 17/10/2018
What we learned about personal data with the BBC
- Public service design
- Search and discovery
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Blog 12/10/2018
Behind the Curtain: art and the morality of gathering public information
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
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Blog 12/10/2018
Behavioural psychologist Patrick Fagan: ‘I turn minds into money’
- Data ethics and privacy
- Emerging tech and AI
- Retail and consumer
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Blog 12/10/2018
ODI R&D lead reflects on progress half-way through the programme
- Innovation
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Blog 11/10/2018
The ODI responds to the Mayor of London’s consultation on the London Sport Strategy
- Health and physical activity
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Blog 08/10/2018
Develop a business case for data-enabled public services
- Innovation
- Public service design
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Blog 05/10/2018
Agile ethics pioneer Alix Dunn on why ‘moving fast and breaking things’ must not extend to ethics
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Startups
- Alix Dunn
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Blog 04/10/2018
How hard is it to publish good-quality open data?
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Skills and literacy
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Blog 28/09/2018
ODI responds to Open Data Barometer Leaders Edition: ‘from promise to progress’
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Peer networks
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 28/09/2018
Creators of tools for open data? Steal this
- Data publishing and use
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 24/09/2018
The ODI responds to green paper: Modernising consumer markets
- Retail and consumer
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 23/09/2018
An open future: how the National Institute for Health Research is opening up data
- Health and physical activity
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Blog 20/09/2018
The ODI responds to call for evidence on mobility systems and related legislation
- Transport
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 18/09/2018
The ODI responds to the consultation on the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
- Data ethics and privacy
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 14/09/2018
Open data is on trend this London Fashion Week
- Retail and consumer
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Blog 11/09/2018
How can we predict the impact of data policy?
- Data publishing and use
- Policy
- Public service design
- Search and discovery
- Rebecca Ghani
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Blog 05/09/2018
As British Gas hikes prices, how can data standards transform the energy sector?
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Weather, energy and environment
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Blog 31/08/2018
China’s digital silk road: data infrastructure for international trade?
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Policy
- Cities
- Josh D'Addario
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Blog 17/08/2018
Data-driven healthcare website expands into new European markets
- Startups
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Blog 14/08/2018
How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are contributing to an openly licensed map of the world
- Data publishing and use
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Humanitarian response
- Deborah Yates
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Blog 10/08/2018
The problem with social numbers driving self-worth
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data ethics and privacy
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Blog, Explainers 09/08/2018
Data's value: how and why should we measure it?
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Ben Snaith
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Blog 09/08/2018
Can data infrastructure help fix travel woes in the north of England?
- Policy
- Transport
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Blog 03/08/2018
State of the Map 2018: what we learned about open geospatial data
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Deborah Yates
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Blog 03/08/2018
The ODI responds to House of Lords call for evidence into internet regulation
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
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Blog 02/08/2018
Beyond ownership: we need better control and rights over data
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 01/08/2018
Sharing data for good in the peer-to-peer accommodation sector
- Built environment and housing
- Public service design
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Blog 25/07/2018
Framing for our thinking about trust
- Data ethics and privacy
- Science and research
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Blog 18/07/2018
Using open data tools to improve public services
- Public service design
- James Maddison
- Pauline L’Hénaff
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Blog 16/07/2018
Project powered by home sales open data wins two awards
- Built environment and housing
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public service design
- Cities
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Blog 13/07/2018
Jeni Tennison launches the ODI Strategy
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog, Explainers 10/07/2018
What is a data trust?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Search and discovery
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 09/07/2018
Challenges announced for Data Pitch second open call Applications are now live for the second open call for Data Pitch, giving European data startups another chance to join this groundbreaking accelerator programme which provides the opportunity to work alongside major corporates
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Blog 05/07/2018
Who do we trust with personal data? Attitudes towards sharing personal data vary across Europe, an ODI-commissioned survey has found
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Blog 03/07/2018
The Data City in Leeds and Lille: measuring data innovation
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Innovation
- Cities
- Startups
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Blog 02/07/2018
IoT and sensor-based systems in Manchester and Rennes
- Built environment and housing
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
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Blog 01/07/2018
How we're exploring the definition of a data trust
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 29/06/2018
Mind the Gaps: quality-of-life and wellbeing data in the UK and France
- Built environment and housing
- Cities
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Blog 28/06/2018
Open banking in the UK and France
- Banking and finance
- Innovation
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 27/06/2018
Connecting data innovators across UK and France
- Banking and finance
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Transport
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Blog 21/06/2018
Find out how we are using ecosystem mapping to understand geospatial data ecosystems
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 13/06/2018
Ordnance Survey and other data stewards must innovate to keep up with the private sector
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Public service design
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 06/06/2018
New rankings show UK’s most innovative tech clusters
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Innovation
- Cities
- Startups
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Blog, News 06/06/2018
Open call for an embedded artist
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Hannah Redler Hawes
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Blog, Podcast 24/05/2018
ODI Podcast: using open data to redesign public services
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Public service design
- Cities
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Blog 11/05/2018
How can we support the publication and use of more open geospatial data?
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Open standards and open APIs
- Search and discovery
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Blog 11/05/2018
Most data is about multiple people – what does that mean for data portability?
- Jack Hardinges
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 10/05/2018
How can tools support the use of open data to improve public services?
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Cities
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Blog 03/05/2018
ODI releases new research on registers: making lists we can trust
- Data publishing and use
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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
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Blog 01/05/2018
Startups help revolutionise access to sports and activity information
- Data publishing and use
- Health and physical activity
- Open standards and open APIs
- Cities
- Startups
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Blog, Case study 30/04/2018
New service delivery models: four councils using open data for service redesign
- Public service design
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Blog 25/04/2018
The ODI announces 2018 innovation programme projects
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Innovation
- Peer networks
- Public service design
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Blog 25/04/2018
Updating the Data Ethics Canvas
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Skills and literacy
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 19/04/2018
Facebook scandal: let’s turn our attention from how data is collected to how it gets used
- Data ethics and privacy
- Innovation
- Science and research
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 19/04/2018
Blockchain’s potential role in the future of archiving
- Jared Robert Keller
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Blog, Case study 12/04/2018
Open standards: case studies These case studies describe the history, development process, governance and key actors involved in the development of an open standard for data
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Blog 11/04/2018
Data portability: the role governments should play
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 09/04/2018
A year spent understanding the role of data in the peer-to-peer accommodation sector
- Built environment and housing
- Cities
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Blog, Guides 06/04/2018
Explainer: What is personal data and how can I control how it's shared?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Alex Vryzakis
- Jack Hardinges
- Jeni Tennison
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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
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Blog 29/03/2018
Jeni Tennison: ‘Getting paid for personal data won’t make things better’
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 29/03/2018
Building the future: opportunities for new services and stronger digital rights in telecoms and utilities
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 24/03/2018
No one owns data: we need to strengthen our rights
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 23/03/2018
Creating ecosystem maps for open data
- Data infrastructure
- Peer networks
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Blog 22/03/2018
What does the Cambridge Analytica scandal mean for access to data?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 08/03/2018
Exploring interventions to support the peer-to-peer accommodation sector
- Built environment and housing
- Public service design
- Science and research
- Cities
- Jack Hardinges
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Blog 02/03/2018
Open Data Day: seven weird and wonderful open datasets
- Data publishing and use
- Alex Vryzakis
- Hannah Foulds
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Blog 15/02/2018
Will GDPR and data portability support innovation?
- Banking and finance
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Health and physical activity
- Innovation
- Retail and consumer
- Jack Hardinges
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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
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Blog 12/02/2018
ODI's 5th Year: annual report
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 18/01/2018
Documenting the development of open standards for data
- Open standards and open APIs
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Blog 15/01/2018
What do SMEs and startups need to succeed in open data innovation?
- Startups
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Blog 12/01/2018
Opportunities for UK/France transport data: ODI workshop on 15 February
- Transport
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Blog 12/01/2018
Open banking: counting the steps towards a strong data infrastructure for the UK
- Banking and finance
- Data infrastructure
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Blog 27/12/2017
Open data training in Africa: lessons from the leaders network
- Peer networks
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Blog 20/12/2017
Using artificial intelligence and open data for innovation and accountability
- Emerging tech and AI
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 15/12/2017
Building resilient cities in Africa: lessons learned from ODI’s mini-grant projects Following the conclusion of the mini-grant programme, hear from three projects bringing citizens and governments together to improve Africa’s cities, with £6,000 and support from the ODI
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Blog, News 14/12/2017
ODI welcomes UK National Infrastructure Commission recognition that data is infrastructure
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Transport
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Blog 14/12/2017
Assessing data literacy needs in government
- Peer networks
- Skills and literacy
- Emily Vacher
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Blog 06/12/2017
The ODI launches three collaborative data innovation projects between the UK and France
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Peer networks
- Public service design
- Science and research
- Cities
- Transport
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Blog 06/12/2017
Research: what are the impacts of peer-to-peer accommodation platforms?
- Built environment and housing
- Innovation
- Retail and consumer
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Blog 05/12/2017
What will the UK’s Geospatial Commission look like?
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
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Blog, ODI Analyses, Reports 04/12/2017
The EU General Data Protection Regulation: opportunities for grocery retail
- Data ethics and privacy
- Retail and consumer
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Blog 04/12/2017
Four UK teams win funding to redesign public services with open data
- Public service design
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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
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Blog, Explainers, Guides 03/11/2017
What is 'open data' and why should we care?- Banking and finance
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Peer networks
- Public service design
- Search and discovery
- Cities
- Transport
- Weather, energy and environment
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Blog 01/11/2017
Why data-enabled insight is the key to an active nation
- Health and physical activity
- Startups
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Blog 26/10/2017
Open Banking: we're looking for opportunities for collaboration
- Banking and finance
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Blog 24/10/2017
Exploring how data can improve PDFs: our work so far
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 23/10/2017
ODI sport sector initiative OpenActive builds momentum
- Health and physical activity
- Timothy Hill
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Blog 19/10/2017
UK parties must show voters their vision for data and technology
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
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Blog 18/10/2017
Using data to build resilient cities in Africa: introducing ODI mini-grant projects
- Humanitarian response
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Blog 17/10/2017
Improving the resilience of cities using open data
- Data infrastructure
- Cities
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Blog 17/10/2017
ODI secures £6m to advance data innovation
- Built environment and housing
- Data ethics and privacy
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public service design
- Cities
- Transport
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Blog 06/10/2017
Open data publishing: towards better tools and processes
- Emerging tech and AI
- Search and discovery
- Skills and literacy
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Olivier Thereaux
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Blog 05/10/2017
ODI Toolbox application experiments: from Comma Chameleon to Data Curator
- Emerging tech and AI
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Blog 13/09/2017
Why we need the data ethics canvas
- Data ethics and privacy
- Science and research
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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
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Blog 23/08/2017
Improving public services with data: fund launched for service delivery redesign
- Built environment and housing
- Public service design
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Blog 23/08/2017
How is peer-to-peer accommodation regulated around the world
- Built environment and housing
- Pauline L’Hénaff
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Blog 11/08/2017
Ukraine Open Data Challenge: finalists revealed
- Innovation
- Richard Stirling
- Steffica Warwick
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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
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Blog 11/08/2017
Building open data capacity in Tanzania - the support of two years of training
- Mahadia Tunga
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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
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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
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Blog 03/08/2017
Calling startups in ASEAN solving problems with data!
- Startups
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Blog 31/07/2017
Where are the UK's most active tech innovation cities
- Emerging tech and AI
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Blog 25/07/2017
The ODI hosts finalists of the Open Contracting Innovation Challenge
- Innovation
- Public service design
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Blog 21/07/2017
ODI/OD4D Mini-Grants
- Agriculture and food
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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
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Blog 11/07/2017
Help us to understand how people understand and describe data
- Science and research
- Search and discovery
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Blog 07/07/2017
Meet ODI Code Fellow Stephen Fortune
- James Smith (Dr)
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Blog 27/06/2017
Open call: Organisation to conduct survey on personal data in the UK retail sector
- Data ethics and privacy
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Blog 23/06/2017
The value of open data for the private sector
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Retail and consumer
- Skills and literacy
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Blog 22/06/2017
The New Observatory: A creative collaboration between FACT and the ODI
- Hannah Foulds
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Blog 22/06/2017
Observatories of ourselves
- Hannah Foulds
- Hannah Redler Hawes
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Blog 21/06/2017
The ODI 5 years on: a time to celebrate and reflect
- Jeni Tennison
- Mahadia Tunga
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
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Blog 14/06/2017
Six Open Contracting Innovation Challenge finalists win $5k ahead of $30k Grand Prize
- Innovation
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Blog 08/06/2017
Testing the Data Ethics Canvas: what we've learned
- Data ethics and privacy
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Blog 07/06/2017
ODI mini-grant programme: open call for open data innovators in Africa
- Agriculture and food
- Humanitarian response
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Blog 05/06/2017
'Late to the game' but committed: Malaysia's open data 'change agent' on challenging cultural norms and plans for the future MAMPU drive for open data is in keeping with the country’s ICT plan for 2016-2020, which calls for a boom in data-driven initiatives.
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Blog 05/06/2017
Open Data Pathway: introducing country-level statistics Over 290 organisations are using the Open Data Pathway and over 100 assessments have been completed. The statistics provide a great source of data to assess the state and progress of open data practices globally
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Blog 02/06/2017
The UK is failing to debate the role technology plays in our future
- Emerging tech and AI
- Public service design
- Transport
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Blog 25/05/2017
Open Data Barometer: now more than ever, we must strengthen open data initiatives across the world
- Data infrastructure
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Blog 10/05/2017
Open letter to parties: publish candidate data and be open about use of personal data
- Data ethics and privacy
- Public service design
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 05/05/2017
Open Contracting Innovation Challenge hosts its first international meetup in Kiev The ODI’s Innovation Consultant recounts the first international meetup of the challenge held in Ukraine
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Blog 03/05/2017
UK general election: how data can and should inform our decisions
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
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Blog 26/04/2017
African Open Data Leaders Network: an open call for outstanding government leaders
- Peer networks
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Blog 18/04/2017
Open call: Open Contracting Innovation Challenge
- Public service design
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Blog 13/04/2017
‘Bring Open Data to Your School’: connecting teens with open data in Argentina
- Data infrastructure
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Blog 12/04/2017
Briefing paper: UK government must support data sharing and open data in transport
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Transport
- Louise Burke
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Blog 10/04/2017
Data Pitch: a new Europe-wide data accelerator launches today
- Innovation
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Blog 04/04/2017
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, ODI Co-Founder, awarded prestigious Turing Award Sir Tim Berners-Lee, ODI Co-founder, and Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Oxford, has today been awarded the 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award by The Association for Computing Machinery.
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Blog 27/03/2017
Open call: Open Data Champions Programme – 22-24 May 2017 Do you work in open data in the public sector in Europe? If so, explore our latest programme
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Blog 23/03/2017
Call for proposals: LMAO 😹 Data as Culture is the art programme for the Open Data Institute. Exhibitions take place in the working environment, alongside ODI staff and visitors
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Blog 15/03/2017
The ODI’s international startup network comes to South-East Asia
- Startups
- Richard Stirling
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Blog 03/03/2017
When an international partnership works: growing open data startups in Mexico
- Data infrastructure
- Humanitarian response
- Startups
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Blog 01/03/2017
Open Data Day: how to build a strong data economy
- Data infrastructure
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 28/02/2017
Guest post: African countries level playing field with oil and gold corporations
- Humanitarian response
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Blog 16/02/2017
How can open data portals become sustainable?
- Search and discovery
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Blog 15/02/2017
Open Inheritance Art project reveals 36,000 rarely seen private heritage artworks you can visit
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Hannah Foulds
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Blog 10/02/2017
Tribute to Hans Rosling
- James Smith (Dr)
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Blog 07/02/2017
Guest post: How can gathering data help curb social exclusion? ODI Associates Mar Santamaria Varas and Pablo Martinez Diez from 300.000 Km/s, discuss how analogue-to-digital tools can improve large-scale data collection processes in cities, helping to combat homelessness and social exclusion
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Blog, Guides, Tools 27/01/2017
Policy design patterns that help you use data to create impact
- Innovation
- Policy
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Blog 13/01/2017
Strengthening our legal data infrastructure
- Data infrastructure
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Blog 11/01/2017
Wasting less and giving more: charities and funders unite with better data
- Humanitarian response
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Blog 05/01/2017
The future of transport? Shared services built on data
- Built environment and housing
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Transport
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Blog 08/12/2016
Improving the resilience of cities using open data
- Cities
- Weather, energy and environment
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Blog 23/11/2016
Autumn Statement: UK must recognise the need to strengthen data infrastructure
- Data infrastructure
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Blog 22/11/2016
Legislation.gov.uk: improving the UK digital statute book through collaborative maintenance
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Search and discovery
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Blog 09/11/2016
Data is critical national infrastructure – let’s make it open and secure
- Data infrastructure
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Blog 31/10/2016
The ODI and Sport England getting the UK more active
- Health and physical activity
- Startups
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Blog 21/10/2016
Guest post: what would the open data utopia actually look like?
- Built environment and housing
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
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Blog, Case study 09/09/2016
Case study: Open innovation at Transport for London Transport for London must find ways to improve their efficiency in spite of budget constraints and ageing physical infrastructure. To tackle this, TfL have been working with the ODI on capturing just some of the massive amounts of data produced by its Tube trains.
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Blog 02/09/2016
25 years of the web: open data, open innovation 25 years of the web: open data, open innovation
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Blog 18/08/2016
How do we 'own' data?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
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Blog 10/08/2016
We need to learn how to search the web of data
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Search and discovery
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Blog, Reports 07/08/2016
Who owns our data infrastructure?
- Data infrastructure
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Blog 24/06/2016
Data knows no boundaries
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Blog, Reports 20/04/2016
Research: The economic value of open versus paid data
- Innovation
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Blog 19/04/2016
Guest post: Putting forgotten communities back on the map with open data
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
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Blog 19/01/2016
Comment: Blockchain technology is useful, but not for everything
- Emerging tech and AI
- James Smith (Dr)
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 08/01/2016
What would legislation for data infrastructure and open data look like?
- Data infrastructure
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Blog, Case study 23/12/2015
A year in open data: How the ODI helped to deliver a successful democratic transition in Burkina Faso We reflect on the use of open data in building trust in an election process that faced many obstacles, and on the ODI’s role in supporting this process.
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Blog, Case study 22/12/2015
A year in open data: Breathe Heathrow informs policy making Access to data can bring objectivity and insight to highly polarised debates. By involving communities in collecting and publishing data, OpenSensors.io and the ODI demonstrated how both citizens and policy makers can become better informed about issues of local and national importance.
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Blog, Case study 16/12/2015
Travel smarter with open data app Fasteroute Research from open data startup Fasteroute and the Open Data Institute (ODI) reveals the UK cities most affected by morning delays and how commuters can avoid them
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Blog 11/12/2015
What is the impact of blockchains on privacy?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Emerging tech and AI
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog, Case study 28/10/2015
Investment in Open Data Challenge Series could see 5 to 10-fold return to UK economy over 3 years A new report released today (28th October) by the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Nesta provides evidence for the first time of how open data could strengthen the UK economy.
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Blog 21/10/2015
Data infrastructure technology: are blockchains the answer?
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- James Smith (Dr)
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Blog 13/10/2015
Natural History Museum: 'We hope people will discover new species with our open data'
- Arts, culture and heritage
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Blog, Guides 27/09/2015
Open Data Maturity Model
- Data publishing and use
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Blog, Case study 08/09/2015
ODI summer showcase: Working with Mental Health We chat with Martin Vowles, Director of M/A, about his ideas behind winning summer showcase project Working with Mental Health, and what he has in store.
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Blog 26/08/2015
Aim to be boring: lessons for data infrastructure
- Data infrastructure
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Blog, Guides 06/08/2015
Five stages of data grief
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog, News 15/07/2015
Citymapper executive to governments: 'Open more data so we can improve your cities'
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
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Blog 25/06/2015
How can open data help improve healthcare?
- Health and physical activity
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Blog 19/06/2015
Beyond the smart city: why our needs extend beyond where we live
- Agriculture and food
- Cities
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Blog 13/03/2015
Burkina Faso's data revolution: government transition to open data
- Humanitarian response
- Peer networks
- Cities
- Liz Carolan
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Blog, Guides 27/02/2015
How To Use R To Access Data On The Web
- Data publishing and use
- Search and discovery
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Blog, Guides 18/12/2014
What is a CSV? A case study of CSVs on data.gov.uk
- Data publishing and use
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog, Case study 30/10/2014
Guest post: Linked data and the future of the web Identifiers are at the heart of how data becomes linked, but not many people know how to use them. The ODI and Thomson Reuters have written a guide to identifier schemes.
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Blog, Case study 30/10/2014
Guest post: Linked data and the future of the web Today’s world would have been almost unimaginable then, and the phenomenal growth of the web has been intrinsically linked with many of the technology advances of the past 25 years. It will be no surprise if that continues for the next 25.
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Blog 27/02/2014
Fig Data 11 Tips How Handle Big Data R And 1 Bad Pun
- Emerging tech and AI
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Blog 11/01/2014
2014: The year of CSV
- Data publishing and use
- Jeni Tennison
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Blog 18/04/2013
A cornerstone for open data: the Postcode Address File
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
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Blog 18/04/2013
PAF decision "flies in the face" of government commitments
- Emma Thwaites
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Blog, Case study 12/06/2012
Prescription Savings Worth Millions Identified by ODI incubated company
- Emma Thwaites