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• 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
• 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 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

  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

  • 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

Events

• 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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