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Data ethics and privacy
- Anna Scott
- Ben Snaith
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Jack Hardinges
- Olivier Thereaux
- Richard Plumbly-Clegg
To ensure people can use data to make better decisions, we must make data as open as possible while protecting people’s privacy, commercial confidentiality and national security

Latest

Blog 23/01/2023
Supporting effective open data publishing for social good
- James Maddison
- Sherrelle Parke
While the need for and value of open data is now widely recognised, the practice of effectively delivering open data is variable. Skills gaps, leadership undersight and lack of strategic prioritisation tend to limit the effectiveness of open data for public good, but the right kinds of tools and resources can address this.
Blog 16/01/2023
Data centres, cloud infrastructures and the tangibility of internet power
- Ben Snaith
Find out more about our research on international data ecosystems, physical infrastructure and dynamics of power
Blog, News 03/01/2023
ITV Data Governance to partner with Open Data Institute
- Ben Timney
The ODI has launched a new partnership with ITV Data Governance to train around 500 ITV staff over the next three years
Blog, Podcast 19/12/2022
Data Decade: Data and climate change
- David Dinnage
- Emma Thwaites
- Gavin Starks
As part of the Data Decade, we are exploring how data surrounds and shapes our world through 10 stories from different data perspectives. The 10th, Data and climate change, examines what data helps us understand about the climate crisis, while seeing how data infrastructure and data sharing can help us to tackle it in the next decade and beyond Find out more about the Data Decade
Blog, News 19/12/2022
The Open Data Institute announces a new partnership with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
- Data publishing and use
- Jack Hardinges
We will be working in partnership with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) to establish new programmes of work in support of our vision of a world where data works for everyone
Blog, Podcast 16/12/2022
Data Decade: Data and public policy
- Policy
- David Dinnage
- Emma Thwaites
- Matt Davies
As part of the Data Decade, we are exploring how data surrounds and shapes our world through 10 stories from different data perspectives. The ninth, Data and public policy, explores the relationship between data and policy, and how policymaking may need to adapt to keep up with a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Find out more about the Data Decade
Blog 16/12/2022
Impact by design: Our approach to OpenActive
- Health and physical activity
- Adam Freeman-Pask
- Carrie Brindle
- Chris Bancroft
- Howard Askew
- Julie King
- Kanika Joshi
- Kim Michael Sørensen
- Tim Corby
We outline how OpenActive is embedding Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) into the initiative to strengthen and expand its social impact This is a summary of OpenActive’s approach to MEL – for more detail, read OpenActive’s blogpost: Improving impact: Our approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning
Blog 05/12/2022
Industry Data for Society Partnership challenge: Using openly available data to improve local environments
- Josh D'Addario
- Tara Lee
The Industry Data for Society Partnership and the Open Data Institute are launching the Data for Local Environments Challenge (awards up to $100,000) to highlight the role publicly available data can play in better understanding how local governments can improve local environments, such as reaching their net zero goals
Blog 01/12/2022
Guest post: Still feel like going for a swim? Overcoming barriers to participation
- Health and physical activity
- Policy
- Carrie Brindle
- Tania Nadarajah
Paralympian Tania Nadarajah writes on her experience accessing sports and local physical activities as a wheelchair user, and how data-driven initiatives like OpenActive and Parasport can help remove barriers to participation
Blog 29/11/2022
Federated analytics for public good: Contact-tracing apps in Covid-19 containment
- Emerging tech and AI
- Calum Inverarity
- Konrad Kollnig
Find out about federated analytics, how it relates to federated learning, and how the approach was used in Covid-19 contact tracing