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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
- 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
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
Reports 26/10/2018
What organisations need in order to share more data: our research
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
We speak to businesses about their challenges in data sharing and how they can be supported
Blog 19/10/2018
Defining a 'data trust'
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
We’ve been investigating ‘data trusts’ as an approach to stewarding data, to retain trust in how it’s collected, maintained and shared
Blog 12/10/2018
Behind the Curtain: art and the morality of gathering public information
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
ODI Embedded Artist in Residence Alistair Gentry considers trust, sharing and AI in data-rich online worlds
Blog 04/10/2018
How hard is it to publish good-quality open data?
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Skills and literacy
How hard is it to publish good-quality open data? Two publishers share their honest experiences
Blog 28/09/2018
ODI responds to Open Data Barometer Leaders Edition: ‘from promise to progress’
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Peer networks
- Jeni Tennison
We note the need to invest in data infrastructure, ‘faltering’ leaders and the second wave of open data champions
Blog 28/09/2018
Creators of tools for open data? Steal this
- Data publishing and use
- Olivier Thereaux
We’ve done some research into data publishers’ needs – we invite you to steal our ideas and collaborate with us
Article 17/09/2018
Creating FAIR and open agricultural data ecosystems
- Agriculture and food
- Data publishing and use
- Pauline L’Hénaff
How we help ensure good data management in Gates Foundation agriculture grants
Blog 14/08/2018
How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are contributing to an openly licensed map of the world
- Data publishing and use
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Humanitarian response
- Deborah Yates
- Leigh Dodds
Multinational organisations are collaborating in the open on OpenStreetMap
Blog, Explainers 09/08/2018
Data's value: how and why should we measure it?
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Ben Snaith
A lack of consensus is holding back innovation, governance and regulation
Blog 03/08/2018
The ODI responds to House of Lords call for evidence into internet regulation
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
Our response to the House of Lords Select Committee on the regulation of the internet, focussing on data and openness
Blog 02/08/2018
Beyond ownership: we need better control and rights over data
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Jeni Tennison
Jeni Tennison’s short discussion paper on intellectual property and data ownership for the new UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
Blog, Explainers 10/07/2018
What is a data trust?
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Search and discovery
- Jack Hardinges
What is a data trust? What’s the definition and how is one applied?
Blog 03/07/2018
The Data City in Leeds and Lille: measuring data innovation
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Innovation
- Cities
- Startups
In this blog, we talk to project lead Tom Forth from The Data City to about find out more about The Data City in Lille and Leeds project – a project that takes innovation-measuring methodologies that have been successfully applied in the UK
Blog 01/07/2018
How we're exploring the definition of a data trust
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
How ‘data trust’ is used, and how it can be used to increase data access while protecting trust
Blog 10/05/2018
How can tools support the use of open data to improve public services?
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Cities

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