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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 Data innovation for the UK: research and development
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public administration services
- Science and research
- Anna Scott
- Jeni Tennison
- Miranda Marcus
- Peter Wells
Our R&D projects cut across themes of data sharing and trust; supporting innovation; and upgrading data infrastructure
Current project R&D: How do we apply R&D insights to a sector?
- Innovation
- Skills and literacy
- Transport
- Philip Horgan
Many of the R&D projects that we carried out in year 1 have created methodologies that could be applied across sectors, such as drawing ecosystem maps to understand actors, roles and data exchanges. In this project we will combine, test and refine these methodologies against 2-3 sectors including transport
Current project R&D: Predicting cause and effect of data strategies
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Public administration services
- Philip Horgan
We’re exploring the use of data-related behaviour models through prototype agent-based models, to investigate possible effects of policy and investments on levels of innovation and productivity
Current project R&D: Unlocking the potential of open geospatial data and technology in the UK
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Deborah Yates
- Leigh Dodds
We’re exploring how geospatial data infrastructure is evolving and develop prototypes and guidance to ensure that the value of that infrastructure is being fully unlocked
Current project R&D: Global data infrastructure for trade
- Innovation
- Public administration services
- Josh D'Addario
- Peter Wells
- Waverley Coquet
Researching how to help the UK build stronger trade links for data-enabled businesses, focusing on Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and Germany.
Current project R&D: Broaden access to personal data while protecting privacy and creating a fair market
- Data ethics and privacy
- Skills and literacy
- Olivier Thereaux
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 data access for new technologies
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech
- Public administration services
- Skills and literacy
- Peter Wells
Lots of organisations hold data – how do we get it flowing between them in ways that people trust? This project aims to understand the models and help others to understand them too in order to pick the right one from them
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 Might blockchain have a role to play in the future of archiving?
- Emerging tech
Blockchains and other distributed ledger technologies have generated significant interest in recent years. This interest, as with many emerging technologies, seems to conform to the Gartner Hype Cycle. In the face of this hype, the ODI has tried to provide some reasoned input about the many promises of these new technologies.
Current project R&D: Enhancing data collaboration between the UK and France
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Peer networks
- Cities
- Transport
- Olivier Thereaux
- Tom Hunter
This work explores how twinning programmes are helping French and British cities to solve problems in their communities with data.
Current project R&D: Helping businesses understand emerging data technology
- Jared Robert Keller
- Olivier Thereaux
This has four strands, each helping businesses understand a different, emerging data technology in order to increase innovation, reduce costs and create competitive advantages.
Current project R&D: Peer-to-peer accommodation
- Built environment and housing
- Retail and consumer
- Cities
This project is working in partnership with the public services, businesses, think tanks and consumer groups to prototype and disseminate new models of gathering and using data in the peer-to-peer accommodation sector.
Current project R&D: New service delivery models
- Innovation
- Public administration services
- Transport
- James Maddison
This project aims to improve understanding around how to implement data-enabled service delivery models in central and local government, and how to publish more open data as part of these approaches.
Current project R&D: Making it easier to create open standards for data
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Leigh Dodds
Open standards can help change markets. This project aims to make it quicker and easier for organisations to create open standards for data.
Current project R&D: Open data publishing
- Data publishing and use
- Olivier Thereaux
Data publishers use tools to publish data. Key considerations around data publishing are quality, speed, automation and cost. Find out how we are auditing current tools, reviewing user needs and offering solutions through open source prototypes.
Current project OpenActive: Getting the nation active
- Health and physical activity
- Open standards and open APIs
- Claire Holland
- Melanie Abraham
- Richard Norris
- Valentina Podda
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
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
- Alessia Camera
- Melanie Abraham
- Orsola De Marco
- Ryan Goodman
- Valentina Podda
Data Pitch is a new 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
- Emilia Kacprzak
- Laura Koesten
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 administration services
- 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

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