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Blog, News 12/11/2019
ODI partners with Pinsent Masons to explore next stage of data trusts
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
International law firm, Pinsent Masons, has joined the our Commercial Partnership Programme, a peer group of forward-thinking organisations who share a common vision of a collaborative and open future
Blog 27/09/2019
Launching the collaborative data maintenance guidebook
- Data publishing and use
- Leigh Dodds
To help people design and run projects that involve collaborative data maintenance – like OpenStreetMap and Wikidata – we’ve created the Collaborative Data Guidebook, an online resource including examples, practical solutions to common problems, and useful resources.
Blog 24/09/2019
Sharing models between ‘digital twins’
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Open standards and open APIs
- Cities
- Fionntán O'Donnell
How can effective model documentation help digital twins connect?
Blog 23/09/2019
How can a business gain value from data sharing?
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
- Miranda Marcus
We explore how to illustrate the business benefits of sharing data
Blog 27/08/2019
Data Access Map: We want your feedback
- Data publishing and use
- Jared Robert Keller
We want your ideas and feedback on our new Data Access Map
Blog 23/07/2019
Do cities have access to the private sector data they need to make effective decisions?
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Cities
- Jack Hardinges
To help understand and tackle the different challenges they face — from congestion in urban environments to climate change – increasingly, cities are seeking access to data collected by private sector organisations. But do they have the levels of access they need?
Blog 22/07/2019
What affects the flow of data-enabled international trade?
- Banking and finance
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Policy
More trust could boost trade in data-enabled services
Blog, News 15/07/2019
We urge UK government to overhaul its use of data
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
The UK government is missing the opportunity to transform its use of data, and risks falling behind other countries if it does not invest now, according to civil society groups – including the ODI
Blog 12/07/2019
Smart cities are decades away: but open cities are within reach
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Cities
- Ben Snaith
- Renate Samson
Cities are being sold a vision of ‘smart’, but the reality is that truly interconnected, data-driven, technology-enhanced cities are likely to still be decades away. We are, therefore, at a crucial stage: an opportunity to change course to a more open future
Blog 09/07/2019
Modelling the risks of a data trust using Pokemon Go
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Public service design
We used Pokemon Go to explore the risks of building new institutions like data trusts
Blog 09/07/2019
Insights from successful collaborative maintenance projects
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Sonia Duarte
Designing a successful collaborative data maintenance project
Blog 04/07/2019
All hands on deck: we've updated the Data Access Map
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Open standards and open APIs
- Search and discovery
- Anna Scott
- Jack Hardinges
- Jared Robert Keller
- Vicky Hallam
After feedback, we’ve commissioned a graphic illustration of our DAM map
Guides, Tools 03/07/2019
The Data Ethics Canvas
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Skills and literacy
Use the Data Ethics Canvas to help you identify and manage ethical issues in your data project
Blog 26/06/2019
Publishing data with purpose in Serbia
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
How can Serbia maximise the impact from its open data initiatives?
Blog 04/06/2019
Collaboration with data: do tools support what people need?
- Data publishing and use
This study investigates the challenges that people face when working together on data tasks, and explores how current information systems and tools support them in their work
Blog 29/05/2019
Sharing data with other organisations: what’s the payoff?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Skills and literacy
Exploring the need for data stewards and professionalising data collaboration
Blog 23/05/2019
How do we encourage the sharing of data to increase safety?
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Leigh Dodds
This month, as part of our project with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, we convened people from across the engineering sector to develop a shared vision and approach to publishing and using engineering data for the public good
Blog 22/05/2019
Collaborative data maintenance: how can we enable shared curation of high-quality data?
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Search and discovery
- Skills and literacy
Exploring community-powered data projects
Blog 30/04/2019
Anonymisation and synthetic data: towards trustworthy data
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Skills and literacy
- Olivier Thereaux
When publishing anonymised personal data, what is the risk of re-identification, how is utility affected, and what is the trade-off between the two?
Blog, News 30/04/2019
Could data be the key to solving England's inactivity problem?
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Health and physical activity
Today Sport England and Mims Davies, Minister for Sport and Civil Society, have called on the sport and physical activity sector to embrace the digital revolution, announcing a commitment of £1.5 million of National Lottery funding to the ODI to help providers innovate using open data
Blog 15/04/2019
Greater London Authority and Royal Borough of Greenwich pilot: What happened when we applied a data trust
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Cities
What happened when we applied the method of data trusts to city data about Greater London Authority and Royal Borough of Greenwich
Blog, News 21/03/2019
Trust in data is 'new currency' for the Co-op
- Agriculture and food
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Retail and consumer
- Skills and literacy
The Co-op share how they’re progressing against their mission to be ‘trusted with data’
Blog, News 13/03/2019
Furman Review: Access to data is a new tool against monopoly
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
The ODI responds to the Digital Competition Expert Panel’s new report
Blog 26/02/2019
Convening the Data Trust Exploration Group
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
As part of our work on data trusts with the UK Government’s Office for AI, the ODI has assembled a group of 16 members from a range of organisations to contribute to the research
Blog 07/02/2019
The ODI and data trusts: how our projects will work
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
- Vicky Hallam
Alex Blandford explains how we’re going about our projects to explore how ‘data trusts’ could help to solve challenges by enabling increased access to data while retaining trust
Blog, News 31/01/2019
UK’s first data trusts to tackle illegal wildlife trade and food waste
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Cities
- Anna Scott
- Helen Desmond
We’re exploring how data trusts could solve challenges by enabling increased access to data while retaining trust
Blog 31/01/2019
Designing a data trust for London
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Sonia Duarte
How data, sensors and a ‘data trust’ can help improve data services in Greenwich
Blog, Videos 11/01/2019
ODI Summit 2018: How can we design for fairness?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Ben Snaith
How can data benefit everyone? Researcher Ben Snaith reflects on discussions from the ‘Designing for fairness’ panel at the ODI Summit 2018
Blog, Guides 20/12/2018
GeoJson schema publishing: a prototype
- Data publishing and use
- Geospatial data and mapping
Using today’s tools for working with geospatial data, it is not possible to define data schemas for the properties section of a GeoJson file. We have been sketching how this could work in a publishing tool and would like feedback
Blog 17/12/2018
How Ukraine became an open data pioneer
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Cities
- James Maddison
Open data in Ukraine has progressed significantly in recent years, and it serves as an important case study of national and local government investing in and benefitting from open data

Events

Talk
Friday lunchtime lecture: Creative and critical  use of complex networks Fri, 11 Nov 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
Burak Arıkan will present the Graph Commons platform

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