How we can help

Blogs and guides

• 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
  • Peter Wells
  • 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
  • Peter Wells

  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

  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 administration services
  • 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
• Blog 30/11/2018
  

  How can we scale up local data-enabled projects?

  • Built environment and housing
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation
  • Public administration services
  • Cities

  • Ben Snaith
  • James Maddison
  • Mike Rose

  Help us explore opportunities and barriers to replicating and scaling local data projects
• Blog 02/11/2018
  

  Data Access Archipelago: mapping the myriad ways we share data

  • Data publishing and use
  • Search and discovery

  • Jared Robert Keller

  For data holders looking to increase access to the data, there are many ‘data access models’ out there. This map is part of our effort to guide people and organisations looking to share data. We hope it will help navigate the complex world of data access
• Blog 26/10/2018
  

  Why businesses aren’t sharing more data

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation
  • Search and discovery
  • Startups

  Businesses can share data in many ways – they need to consider ethics, anonymisation and standards to do it right

Events

• Course
  

  Change or Grow Your Business with Better Data – 26 November Tue, 26 Nov 2019, 10:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Innovation
  • Skills and literacy

  Do have a fledgling idea for how your organisation could be working better with data to create new opportunities, but need some support to grow or explore it?
  Book
• Course
  

  Change or Grow Your Business with Better Data – 19 September Thu, 19 Sep 2019, 10:30 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Innovation
  • Skills and literacy

  Do have a fledgling idea for how your organisation could be working better with data to create new opportunities, but need some support to grow or explore it?
  Book
• Course
  

  Change or Grow Your Business with Better Data – 9 July Tue, 09 Jul 2019, 10:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation
  • Skills and literacy

  Do have a fledgling idea for how your organisation could be working better with data to create new opportunities, but need some support to grow or explore it?
  Book

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