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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 Might blockchain have a role to play in the future of archiving?
- Emerging tech
- Jamie Fawcett
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
- Lucia Chauvet
- 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
- Isabelle Champion
This project will convene government, businesses, think tanks and consumer groups to prototype and disseminate new models of gathering and using data in the sector.
Current project R&D: New service delivery models
- Innovation
- Public administration services
- Transport
This project will grow the understanding of how to implement data-enabled service delivery models in 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: Improving data publishing
- Data publishing and use
- Olivier Thereaux
This work will understand the unmet needs and pain points in current data publishing tools. It will then offer new solutions to those needs through open source prototypes.
Current project OpenActive: Getting the nation active
- Health and physical activity
- Open standards and open APIs
- Melanie Abraham
- Patrice John-Baptiste
- 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 Research and development of data innovation for UK government
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Personal data and privacy
- Public administration services
- Science and research
- Skills and literacy
- Transport
- Helen Desmond
- Melanie Abraham
- Natalia Umeyor
- Ohleen Munyanyi
- Philip Horgan
- Rebecca Ghani
The ODI will use funds from Innovate UK to focus on projects that it believes will progress strategically important areas: building data infrastructure, improving data literacy, stimulating data innovation and building trust in the use of data
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
- 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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