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Blogs and guides

• Blog 27/09/2019
  

  Launching the collaborative data maintenance guidebook

  • Data publishing and use

  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

  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

  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
• 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

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