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Blogs and guides

• Archived tender opportunities, Blog, News 18/11/2020
  

  Call for proposals: Funding to develop open source tools for data institutions

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use

  • Olivier Thereaux

  We are requesting project proposals aiming to improve the quality and interoperability of open source tools relevant to data access and data sharing initiatives, with funding of up to £15,000 available
• Blog 09/11/2020
  

  Activating sector change: what we’ve learnt from OpenActive

  • Data publishing and use
  • Health and physical activity

  • Ellen Goodman
  • Orsola De Marco

  We reflect on the lessons we have learnt through OpenActive, a data access initiative driving innovation in the sport and physical activity sector
• Blog, Podcast 05/11/2020
  

  The ODI interviewed on Reasons to be Cheerful podcast

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

  • Jack Hardinges

  Our very own Jack Hardinges, Head of Data Institutions, was on Ed Millband’s and Geoff Lloyd’s podcast, Reasons to be Cheerful, this week to discuss ideas about how to help steward data for the common good
• Blog 29/10/2020
  

  Towards collaboration between data institutions and philanthropy

  • Data publishing and use
  • Skills and literacy

  • Jack Hardinges
  • Vilas Dhar

  Data institutions have an important role to play in helping us tackle the challenges and issues of our time. In this article, we explore the relationship between data institutions and philanthropic capital
• Blog 27/10/2020
  

  The UK National Data Strategy 2020: equity, fairness and rights

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation
  • Policy

  • Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
  • Josh D'Addario

  Access to data and information promotes fair competition and informed markets, and empowers people as consumers, creators and citizens. How could this principle be realised in a national data strategy?
• Blog, News 26/10/2020
  

  Winners – ODI Writers' Fund for Black History Month 2020

  • Arts, culture and heritage
  • Data publishing and use
  • Science and research

  We’re delighted to share three pieces of writing by winners of our Black History Month Writers’ Fund, chosen by Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Rob Berkeley, Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta and Sir Nigel Shadbolt
• Blog 26/10/2020
  

  The dividing line: how we represent race in data

  • Arts, culture and heritage
  • Data publishing and use
  • Science and research

  This essay was written by Eleanor Shearer as part of our ODI Writers’ Fund for Black History Month 2020. Eleanor explores the difficult relationship between data and race, and puts forward three important questions researchers should be asking themselves when collecting data around race
• Blog 26/10/2020
  

  Tackling climate change challenges through data access – Microsoft and the ODI

  • Agriculture and food
  • Built environment and housing
  • Covid-19
  • Data publishing and use
  • Transport

  • Diana Szasz

  As part of our global partnership with Microsoft, we have been conducting research into climate change to identify priority areas for increased access to data through data collaborations
• ODI Inside Business series 19/10/2020
  

  ODI Inside Business – a checklist for leaders

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data publishing and use
  • ODI Inside Business

  • Simon Bullmore
  • Stuart Coleman

  This checklist is a starting point for anyone who wants to provide leadership in their business when it comes to data
• Blog 13/10/2020
  

  Matchmakers of the data world: how 'data intermediaries' can bring decision makers and data together to help combat Covid-19

  • Data publishing and use

  • Fionntán O'Donnell
  • Rebecca Ghani

  Access to data is essential to support effective and swift decisions around Covid-19, making the role of the data intermediaries more important than ever
• Blog, News 12/10/2020
  

  The ODI partners with RegulAItion to collaborate on breakthrough platform

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Skills and literacy

  Data platform company RegulAItion has partnered with the Open Data Institute (ODI) to collaborate on its breakthrough data access and collaboration platform, which aims to ‘enable automated, scalable, repeatable and responsible data access and collaboration for regulated industries’.
• Reports 30/09/2020
  

  Demonstrating and assessing trustworthiness when sharing data

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data publishing and use
  • Science and research
  • Skills and literacy

  • Elea Himmelsbach
  • Fionntán O'Donnell
  • Jared Robert Keller
  • Olivier Thereaux
  • Sonia Duarte

  How can people and organisations trust others when sharing data? This report finds that while third-party certifications and audits are useful, alternative approaches can also be effective
• Blog, Reports 28/09/2020
  

  Open communications: an open trustworthy data ecosystem for the telecommunications sector [report]

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation
  • Open standards and open APIs
  • Retail and consumer

  • Josh D'Addario

  Find out about the potential of data portability in telecommunications: our report examines the potential benefits and risks of sharing more data about use of communications services
• Blog, News 15/09/2020
  

  ODI Writers' Fund for Black History Month 2020

  • Arts, culture and heritage
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Policy

  • Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
  • Sir Nigel Shadbolt

  Do you have a data story to tell for Black History Month? We’re looking for Black writers who can use data to tell a story or tell a story about data. We know these stories exist and want to give space to them.
• Blog 11/09/2020
  

  Using logic models to design data access initiatives

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use

  • Emily Sinclair
  • Josh D'Addario

  Logic models are a well-defined means to help people plan impactful projects and can help in the design of data access initiatives.
• Blog 09/09/2020
  

  Building resilience for your business in turbulent times

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use

  • Josh D'Addario

  Leigh Dodds, Director of Delivery at the ODI explains how sharing data can significantly increase the resilience and adaptability of a business, and highlights useful tools and resources
• Blog 03/09/2020
  

  From secret exercise classes to preventing accidents at sea – 7 organisations proving the value of data sharing

  • Covid-19
  • Data publishing and use
  • Health and physical activity
  • Innovation
  • Open standards and open APIs
  • Transport

  • Carrie Brindle

  We take a look at organisations that are proving the value of data sharing and increased data access
• Blog 21/08/2020
  

  What do we mean by data access initiatives?

  • Covid-19
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Policy

  How can ‘data access initiatives’ help us tackle social, economic and environmental challenges?
• Blog 24/07/2020
  

  Why Covid-19 means data sharing is more important than ever

  • Covid-19
  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation

  The changes prompted by Covid-19 have had a widespread impact on businesses, demonstrating the need for organisations to be resilient in order to withstand the crisis. Stuart Coleman, ODI’s Business Development Director, explains more
• 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

Events

• Talk
  Friday lunchtime lecture: Better organisation identifiers through a decentralised list of lists Fri, 01 Dec 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Open standards and open APIs
  • Search and discovery

  Tim Davies will explore the creation and use of org-id.guide, a collaboratively created register of organisation identifier lists
• 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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