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We bring together commercial and non-commercial organisations and governments around specific sectors to address today’s global challenges.

Driven by needs, and focused on timely challenges, we help people identify and address how the web of data will impact their businesses and their sectors. Together, we will build a strong data infrastructure.

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Current projects

Current project
Building open, trustworthy data ecosystems to solve common challenges
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Humanitarian response
- Innovation
- Science and research
- Search and discovery
- Weather, energy and environment
- Diana Szasz
- Ellen Goodman
- Tara Lee
This programme of work focuses on building open, trustworthy data ecosystems to advance broader social, environmental and economic goals such as those set out in the UN’s 2030 Development Agenda
Current project
Discover which European countries are ready for the secondary use of health data
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Jeni Tennison
- Mahad Alassow
- Mark Boyd
Explore our new tool and report – commissioned by Roche – created to compare the policy readiness of countries across Europe for the secondary use of health data, and identify good practice across the region
Current project
'Data: a new direction’ – the UK government’s new data protection regime
- Data ethics and privacy
- Deborah Yates
- Diana Szasz
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Gavin Freeguard
- Jeni Tennison
- Julie King
- Lisa Allen
- Mahad Alassow
- Olivier Thereaux
Find out how we’re engaging with the UK government’s new data protection regime
Current project
National Data Strategy: Help us map who is responsible for data in government
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Science and research
- Skills and literacy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Gavin Freeguard
- Jeni Tennison
- Lisa Allen
We continue to explore the UK National Data Strategy through 2021
Current project
Project: Experimentalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Policy
- Adjoa Anyimadu
- David Warrell
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Jeni Tennison
- Olivier Thereaux
We’re exploring how data policy and data practice can best adapt to the changing rate of change
Current project
Using data to drive better outcomes in healthcare
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Health and physical activity
- Open standards and open APIs
- Policy
- Annalisa Eichholzer
- Elea Himmelsbach
- Flor Serale
- James Maddison
- Mahad Alassow
We are working with Roche to design a ‘Data governance playbook for data-driven healthcare projects’ – a resource for Roche, and its customers and partners – to use and share globally
Current project
Enabling data access to transform agriculture in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
- Agriculture and food
- Deborah Yates
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Josh D'Addario
- Lucy Knight
- Violeta Mezeklieva
How a new toolkit, developed by the ODI for sharing data in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, promises to transform agriculture and secure food supplies for growing communities.
Current project
MediaFutures: an innovation hub to support media's innovative and responsible use of data
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Ellen Goodman
- Orsola De Marco
- Tara Lee
MediaFutures is a virtual, European innovation hub that aims to bring together artists and startups to tackle challenges in the media sector through responsible and innovative uses of data
Current project

ODI Analyses We carry out and commission analysis to help others understand the topics and issues of the day
Current project
The UK National Data Strategy 2020
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Science and research
- Skills and literacy
- Alan Walker
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Jeni Tennison
In response to the UK’s National Data Strategy we are thinking about the way data is managed, used, and governed in the UK – and how that can be developed for the good of every corner of society and economy
Current project
Using data in the public sector
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public service design
- Science and research
- James Maddison
We are helping cities and local governments make better use of data – to create more public services that have data embedded in their design and to enable better decision making.
Current project
Exploring new ways of collecting and stewarding health and care data
- Dr Jared Robert Keller
- Jeni Tennison
We explored whether new data stewardship structures can facilitate the sharing of data between public and private organisations to support the evaluation of the impact of new technologies on our health and healthcare
Current project
Microsoft and the ODI – helping bridge the data divide
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Jack Hardinges
- Tara Lee
The ODI has partnered with Microsoft to launch its Open Data Campaign which aims to ‘help address the looming ‘data divide’ and help organisations of all sizes to realise the benefits of data and the new technologies it powers
Current project
Covid-19: Building an open and trustworthy data ecosystem
- Covid-19
- Data infrastructure
- Charlotte Mitchell
- Jeni Tennison
- Olivier Thereaux
A summary of the ODI project, funded by Luminate, to provide guidance and support to make the data, models and software being used to address the coronavirus pandemic as open as possible, while building and maintaining trust and working towards a future where data works for everyone
Current project
Wellcome and the ODI: data science challenge
- Health and physical activity
- Diana Szasz
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
Find out how we are helping to enable health tech with a series of data science challenge prizes
Current project
Data institutions
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Policy
- Jack Hardinges
At the ODI we’re exploring ways of increasing access to data while retaining trust. We’ve established a new programme to advance our work on data institutions, which we see as having an important role to play in this
Current project
INSIGHT: exploring access to eye health data
- Data ethics and privacy
- Health and physical activity
- Policy
- Public service design
- Jack Hardinges
- Tara Lee
The ODI is working with the INSIGHT Health Data Research Hub to involve the public, patients and other stakeholders in data stewardship
Current project
Enabling data access to support innovation in agriculture
- Agriculture and food
- Deborah Yates
- Josh D'Addario
Funded by the Gates Foundation, and working in collaboration with CABI, this project aims to create tools, guidelines and learning programmes that will support and enhance the use of agricultural data ecosystems
Current project, Startup programme
OpenActive: Getting the nation active
- Health and physical activity
- Open standards and open APIs
- Timothy Hill
The Open Data Institute and Sport England are working together to improve and open up information about physical activity and sporting opportunities across England