How we can help

Blogs and guides

• Archived tender opportunities, News 21/07/2020
  

  Invitation to tender: Economic modelling of trust in data ecosystems [RDPM-046]

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Policy

  • Olivier Thereaux

  The objective of this work is to assess the economic impact of trust in the flows of data
• Blog 07/05/2020
  

  Covid-19 update – building an open and trustworthy data ecosystem (7 May 2020)

  • Covid-19
  • Data publishing and use
  • Health and physical activity

  • Olivier Thereaux

  Read our update on the ODI project to support building an open and trustworthy data ecosystem for Covid-19
• Reports 28/04/2020
  

  Designing sustainable data institutions [report]

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data publishing and use
  • Peer networks
  • Policy

  • Ben Snaith
  • Diana Szasz
  • Jared Robert Keller
  • Jeni Tennison
  • Sonia Duarte

  When data institutions steward data on behalf of others, they need to be able to offer long-time stewardship. Our new report explores how to make them more sustainable.
• Reports 28/04/2020
  

  Designing trustworthy data institutions [report]

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data publishing and use
  • Policy

  • Jack Hardinges
  • Jared Robert Keller
  • Jeni Tennison
  • Olivier Thereaux
  • Sonia Duarte

  To effectively meet its public, educational or charitable aims, a data institution need to be trustworthy and trusted
• Blog 27/04/2020
  

  Join us as we embark on the fourth year of our R&D programme

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Innovation
  • Policy
  • Cities

  • Vicky Hallam

  As we enter the fourth year of our research and development programme, we are starting projects on sustainable data access, building trust through certification and creating data infrastructure for common challenges, and invite you to join our team
• Case study (private sector) 16/04/2020
  

  Case study: The value of sharing data for improving market reach

  • Data publishing and use
  • Health and physical activity

  • James Maddison
  • Josh D'Addario

  How a UK leisure operator shares data about its available products and how to purchase them to reach new customers
• Case study (private sector) 16/04/2020
  

  Case study: The value of sharing data to build trust

  • Agriculture and food
  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data publishing and use

  • James Maddison
  • Josh D'Addario

  How a global agriculture business publishes open data to help evidence its commitments to being a more trustworthy organisation
• Blog 30/03/2020
  

  International data strategy, the Australian way

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Open standards and open APIs
  • Policy

  How should countries develop data-sharing relationships with each other? And how can national policymakers govern data flows across borders?
• Blog 17/03/2020
  

  Data trusts in 2020

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Policy

  • Jack Hardinges

  Programme Lead for Data Institutions, Jack Hardinges, discusses the ODI’s ongoing work to test data trusts as an approach to stewarding data, and some of the recent developments in the field
• Reports 11/03/2020
  

  Sharing data to create value in the private sector [report]

  • Data publishing and use

  • Josh D'Addario

  Read our research which finds that businesses can benefit from sharing business-held data, as well as making use of third-party data
• Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
  

  Case study: The value of sharing data in supply chain optimisation

  • Data publishing and use
  • Transport

  • James Maddison
  • Josh D'Addario

  How Airbus shares engineering data on its aeroplane concepts with supply-chain partners to improve the efficiency and accuracy of its product design
• Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
  

  Case study: The value of sharing data to drive open innovation

  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation

  • James Maddison
  • Josh D'Addario

  In this case study, we look at how an EU-funded open innovation programme, Data Pitch, has allowed a large organisation to share data with a startup to help address key challenges
• Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
  

  Case study: The value of sharing data in regulated environments

  • Banking and finance
  • Data publishing and use

  • James Maddison
  • Josh D'Addario

  How a multinational investment bank and financial services company shares data both for regulatory purposes and more widely for its business
• Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
  

  Case study: The value of sharing data for benchmarking and insights

  • Built environment and housing
  • Data publishing and use
  • Transport

  • James Maddison
  • Josh D'Addario

  How a private sector organisation is sharing data to provide shipping companies with safety recommendations
• Case study (private sector) 03/03/2020
  

  Case study: The value of sharing data to address sector challenges

  • Data publishing and use
  • Weather, energy and environment

  • James Maddison
  • Josh D'Addario

  How two private sector organisations are sharing data to better forecast the generation of electricity from solar energy sources
• Case study, Guides, Tools 21/02/2020
  

  Data 2020

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Innovation
  • Policy
  • Public service design
  • Skills and literacy

  • Jeni Tennison

  Here is a landscape review of hot topics in the world of data in 2020 – from digital competition, AI and trade to data rights, ethics and literacy
• Data 2020, Guides 21/02/2020
  

  Data 2020: Collaboration to solve societal problems

  • Data publishing and use
  • Policy

  • Richard Stirling

  Some problems can only be tackled through collective action. But who manages that shared data? Who ensures it’s shared and used in the right way? New data institutions could be an answer.
• Blog 21/02/2020
  

  Building trust in how you handle data: a hierarchy

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data publishing and use
  • Policy

  • Jeni Tennison

  The ODI’s CEO Jeni Tennison shares four layers to building trust in how you handle data, from basic compliance to making positive efforts to share its benefits
• Blog, Explainers 10/02/2020
  

  How we use the Data Access Map to tell stories and explain concepts

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use

  • Jared Robert Keller

  When it comes to sharing or increasing access to data, there is a wide range of different approaches out there and finding the most suitable approach can be tricky. We’ve created the Data Access Map to help people and organisations explore the various options and navigate this difficult terrain
• Blog, Guides 10/02/2020
  

  What do we mean by data institutions?

  • Data publishing and use
  • Policy

  • Jack Hardinges
  • Jeni Tennison

  What defines a data institution, and what constitutes one? Our CEO Jeni Tennison answers this question, and shares how we’ve been exploring this type of access model
• Blog 30/01/2020
  

  Seven reasons why businesses should be sharing data

  • Data publishing and use

  • Josh D'Addario

  We share our top seven reasons why businesses should be sharing data
• Blog 28/01/2020
  

  Communicating data stories through art and storytelling

  • Arts, culture and heritage
  • Data publishing and use

  Can data entertain as well as inform, and excite as well as educate? How might people interact with data when it is represented in art, games, and storytelling rather than spreadsheets? Our Senior Technology Developer, Rachel Wilson introduces our latest project exploring these questions
• Blog 28/01/2020
  

  Digital competition law: the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Innovation

  Do big technology companies holding large amounts of data provide invaluable services that make our lives better, or are they stifling innovation and showing that ‘big is bad’? Charlotte Mitchell, ODI’s Delivery Manager, shares what she learned from ‘Unlocking Digital Competition’ panel at the ODI’s 2019 Summit back in November
• Case study, Case study [Luminate] 18/12/2019
  

  OpenActive: addressing inactivity in the UK (case study)

  • Data publishing and use
  • Health and physical activity

  Supported by Sport England, OpenActive addresses the problem of inactivity in the UK by helping people get active using open data
• Blog, News 18/12/2019
  

  Jeni Tennison on Amazon’s access to the NHS website – how has it come to this?

  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Health and physical activity
  • Policy

  • Jeni Tennison

  Has the Department for Health and Social Care acted outside its authority by partnering with Amazon? What does this mean for future contracts between the NHS and big tech?
• Case study, Case study [Luminate] 17/12/2019
  

  Data Trust Exploration Group (case study)

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Peer networks

  • Jack Hardinges

  Read about how we ran a Data Trust Exploration Group to help guide our work around data trust pilots
• Blog 11/12/2019
  

  Experts discuss how to harness data to gain business value at the ODI Summit 2019

  • Banking and finance
  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation
  • Retail and consumer
  • Cities
  • Transport

  • Sonia Duarte

  At the ODI Summit 2019, a panel of experts discussed how businesses can harness data to gain value. ODI’s Delivery Manager Walter Brown and User Researcher Sonia Duarte share what they learned
• Blog, News 12/11/2019
  

  Success celebrated at ODI Summit with startup programme awards

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation
  • Peer networks
  • Startups

  An entrepreneur, a startup and a data provider received awards today at the ODI Summit from Sir Nigel Shadbolt, the UK’s AI expert and ODI co-founder, to recognise their outstanding success during the Data Pitch programme
• 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 09/10/2019
  

  Discovering the future of the London Datastore

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Cities

  • Olivier Thereaux

  The London Datastore is evolving, and ODI is helping drive the discovery phase of this next stage – exploring options and making recommendations for its future shape and scope

Events

• Talk
  

  Friday lunchtime lecture: Rob's comedy bots Fri, 06 Oct 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data publishing and use

  Rob Manuel will show you how it works and make you want to make your own horrible bots since, as Rob says, frankly it’s more fun than doing anything you’re meant to be spending your time doing
• Talk
  

  Friday lunchtime lecture: Is open data and journalism a match doomed to fail? Fri, 08 Sep 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data publishing and use

  In 2015, Jonathan Stoneman wrote a working paper “Does Open Data Need Journalism?” to show how things were slowly changing
• Talk
  

  Friday lunchtime lecture: Bringing ghost data back from the dead Fri, 20 Jan 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Science and research

  Michael Weatherburn will share his insights into the scale of this issue, and discuss how we can recover important data to fill gaps in knowledge
• Talk
  

  Friday lunchtime lecture: Creating an open register – what it takes and why Fri, 02 Dec 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Open standards and open APIs
  • Skills and literacy

  Paul Downey from the Government Digital Service will share his vision for what open registers can help achieve
• 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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