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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 R&D: Open standards for the UK energy sector
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Weather, energy and environment
Applying the principles and tools of the Open Data Standards guidebook to a data standards project for customer data in the UK energy sector.
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 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: Geospatial data and technology
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Deborah Yates
- Leigh Dodds
Exploring how the UK’s geospatial data infrastructure is evolving to help unlock its value
Current project R&D: Global data infrastructure for trade
- Innovation
- Public administration services
- Josh D'Addario
- Peter Wells
- Sonia Duarte
- 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
- Sonia Duarte
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 and AI
- Public administration services
- Skills and literacy
- Peter Wells
- Sonia Duarte
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 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 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
Helping businesses understand emerging data technologies with the aim to to boost innovation, reduce costs and create competitive advantage
Current project R&D: Peer-to-peer accommodation
- Built environment and housing
- Retail and consumer
- Cities
How can data be used to improve the peer-to-peer accommodation sector?
Current project R&D: New service delivery models
- Innovation
- Public administration services
- Transport
- James Maddison
How can data help to improve public services?
Current project R&D: Making it easier to create open standards for data
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Leigh Dodds
Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality 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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