How we can help

Blogs and guides

• 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
  • Peter Wells

  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 administration services
  • 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

  • Anna Scott
  • Fiona Smith
  • Jeni Tennison
  • Peter Wells

  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

  • Marina Peneva
  • 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

  • Fiona Smith
  • Pauline L’Hénaff

  How we help ensure good data management in Gates Foundation agriculture grants
• Blog 11/09/2018
  

  How can we predict the impact of data policy?

  • Data publishing and use
  • Public administration services
  • Search and discovery

  • Philip Horgan
  • Rebecca Ghani

  Predictive modelling could reveal the butterfly effects of data policies on the data economy
• 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 09/08/2018
  

  Data's value: how and why should we measure it?

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Innovation

  • Anna Scott
  • Ben Snaith
  • Peter Wells

  A lack of consensus is holding back innovation, governance and regulation

Events

• Talk
  

  ODI Fridays: We need to talk about data (and how to avoid feeling like an imposter) Fri, 01 Feb 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Innovation
  • Public administration services
  • Skills and literacy

  Simon Buillmore will discuss his own experience of imposter syndrome, and will share how data literacy can help by giving you a starting point that relates more to your own context and needs.
• Course, Meetup
  

  Change or Grow Your Business with Better Data Wed, 16 Jan 2019, 09:30 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Geospatial data and mapping

  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? Then this short workshop is for you.
• Talk
  

  ODI Fridays: How the Cabinet Office is highlighting racial disparity Fri, 09 Nov 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data publishing and use
  • Public administration services

  Zamila Bunglawala will be presenting the world’s first website to detail all Government data by ethnicity, published and unpublished, highlighting disparities between ethnic groups

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