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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

Current projects

Current project
Protected Characteristics in Practice
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Renate Samson
Exploring how protected characteristics of people using digital public services are collected and published by UK government
Current project
Mapping the wide world of data sharing
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jared Robert Keller
Finding the right way to make your data accessible is tricky. We’ve created a Data Access Map to help explore, map and describe the options to help others navigate this difficult terrain
Current project
R&D: The value of data sharing in the private sector
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Startups
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
- Miranda Marcus
- Orsola De Marco
We are exploring business cases that demonstrate the value of data sharing in the private sector
Current project
Local government using open geospatial data to make a difference
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Policy
- Public service design
- James Maddison
View our videos showing how four UK councils supported local open-geospatial-data projects
Current project
R&D: Open cities
- Built environment and housing
- Policy
- Public service design
- Cities
- Transport
- Ben Snaith
- Renate Samson
We want to talk about ‘open’ cities, rather than ‘smart’ cities. This project aims to evaluate the success of open approaches in cities and demonstrate the value of openness to those currently focusing on smart
Current project
R&D: Digital twins
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Cities
- Deborah Yates
- Fionntán O'Donnell
- Jared Robert Keller
- Miranda Marcus
- Olivier Thereaux
- Sonia Duarte
- Vicky Hallam
Exploring ‘digital twins’: identifying the pain points and good practices to understand what makes them successful
Current project
R&D: Collaborative data maintenance
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Startups
- Leigh Dodds
- Miranda Marcus
- Sonia Duarte
- Vicky Hallam
We aim to identify and document design patterns that support the creation of tools to collaboratively maintain data assets
Current project
R&D: Can data trusts increase or help data sharing?
- Agriculture and food
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Search and discovery
- Cities
- Weather, energy and environment
- Miranda Marcus
- Vicky Hallam
Could ‘data trusts’ help to increase data sharing while retaining trust from both people and organisations? We’ve been researching and piloting the impacts of ‘data trusts’ in the real world
Current project
Creating a shared understanding of rights over data
- Data ethics and privacy
- Policy
- Anna Scott
- Renate Samson
We are exploring what citizens think of data ownership and rights with Luminate and the Royal Society for Arts so we can explain it better
Current project
Sharing engineering data for the public good
- Built environment and housing
- Cities
- James Maddison
- Leigh Dodds
Funded by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, this project aims to develop a movement within the engineering sector that will lead to the sharing and use of data for the public good, with a particular focus on improving safety
Current project
Enabling data access to support innovation in agriculture
- Agriculture and food
- Deborah Yates
- Josh D'Addario
- Leigh Dodds
- Pauline L’Hénaff
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
ARCHANGEL: digital archives and distributed ledger technologies
- Emerging tech and AI
Guaranteeing the integrity of digital archives using distributed ledger technologies
Current project
Data innovation for the UK: research and development
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public service design
- Science and research
- Anna Scott
- Jeni Tennison
- Miranda Marcus
- Walter Brown
Our R&D projects cut across themes of data sharing and trust; supporting innovation; and upgrading data infrastructure
Current project
R&D: Data infrastructure for trade competitiveness
- Innovation
- Policy
- Public service design
- Ben Snaith
- Diana Szasz
- Lawrence Kay
- Miranda Marcus
We’re looking at how data infrastructure affects the competitiveness in international markets of data-enabled goods and services produced by Australia, Canada, the UK, and other countries
Current project
R&D: Managing the risk of re-identification
- Data ethics and privacy
- Skills and literacy
- Fionntán O'Donnell
- Miranda Marcus
- Olivier Thereaux
- Sonia Duarte
- Vicky Hallam
This research and development project aims to help organisations reduce the risks of re-identification when sharing or opening data, by giving them tools and knowledge to recognise and mitigate those risks
Current project
R&D: Increasing access to data while retaining trust
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Public service design
- Skills and literacy
- Miranda Marcus
- Renate Samson
- Sonia Duarte
- Vicky Hallam
This project explores the options for making data available – with the aim to help organisations decide which option best complements their particular business model
Current project
Improving decision making, innovation and transparency in agriculture and nutrition (GODAN Action)
- Agriculture and food
- Pauline L’Hénaff
We’re part of the GODAN Action project that enables data users and producers to engage effectively with open data and maximise its potential for impact in the agriculture and nutrition sectors
Current project
Blockchain's potential role in the future of archiving
- Emerging tech and AI
The ODI aims to provide reasoned input about the many promises of these new technologies
Current project, Startup programme
OpenActive: Getting the nation active
- Health and physical activity
- Open standards and open APIs
- Richard Norris
The Open Data Institute and Sport England are working together to improve and open up information about physical activity and sporting opportunities across England
Current project
Building open data capacity in Tanzania
- Skills and literacy
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Emily Vacher
Over the course of the project, we trained 222 people and reached a further 127 with policy advice and engagement, including policy seminars and communications masterclasses
Current project
Data Pitch: a Europe-wide data accelerator
- Innovation
- Startups
- Orsola De Marco
- Ryan Goodman
Data Pitch is a European-funded project bringing together established businesses and startups to meet today’s challenges with data.
Current project
Research: Answering questions using web data
- Search and discovery
The WDAqua project (Answering Questions using Web Data) is a collaborative research project across different European countries, researching how to turn web data into successful services.
Current project
Open banking: setting a standard and enabling innovation
- Banking and finance
- Open standards and open APIs
- David Beardmore
If implemented effectively, open banking will unlock innovation that will transform and improve the customer banking experience
Current project
Ukraine: Open data for transparency and accountability
- Peer networks
- Public service design
- Skills and literacy
- Startups
- James Maddison
As part of the Open Data Institute’s (ODI) international work we are working with the Government of Ukraine

Past projects