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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 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
Blog 29/11/2022
Rewiring society: The ODI in conversation with Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang
- Data ethics and privacy
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Matt Davies
We launched our final report of the Experimentalism project at ODI Summit 2022: Data Decade as part of a conversation between Digital Minister of Taiwan Audrey Tang and the ODI’s Head of Public Policy, Dr Mahlet ‘Milly’ Zimeta Today we’re publishing the full recording of their discussion, along with an annotated transcript
Blog 28/11/2022
10 prominent data visualisations from the last 10 years
- Hannah Foulds
10 prominent data visualisations from the last 10 years: Guest blog by Radhita Jain and Hannah Foulds at ODI member, Applied Works
Blog 22/11/2022
Collaborative bibliography: Power and diplomacy in data ecosystems
- Ben Snaith
- Calum Inverarity
- Sasha Moriniere
Find out about our curated, living repository of books, reports, podcasts and research papers compiling research from around the world interested in how data and digital technologies shape new geopolitical dynamics worldwide
Blog, Podcast 18/11/2022
Data Decade: State of the data nation
- David Dinnage
- Emma Thwaites
- Navdip Dhariwal
- Rebecca Ghani
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
As part of the Data Decade, we are exploring how data surrounds and shapes our world through 10 stories from different data perspectives. The eighth, State of the Data Nation, asks ODI co-founders Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt about developments in tech and AI in the past 10 years. Find out more about the Data Decade
Blog 15/11/2022
ODI Fellow research – Anonymous data: Emerging risks in the data economy
- Data ethics and privacy
- Emerging tech and AI
- Policy
- Science and research
- Georgia Meyer
- Dr Jared Robert Keller
- Lucas Stiglich
This blogpost is written by ODI Fellow Georgia Meyer Anonymised personal data shifts risks from privacy to purposes and demands that more attention is paid to the emerging ways of thinking about participation in the data economy
Blog 09/11/2022
ODI Summit 2022: roundup
- Emma Thwaites
- Louise Burke
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Read a roundup of the ODI Summit 2022, Data Decade, which celebrated 10 years of the ODI and looked back over the decade to see how data has changed the world, and the transformational possibilities for the coming decade of data
Blog, Reports 08/11/2022

Fuel poverty and data infrastructure: report and fuel poverty risk index New data analysis by the ODI reveals the sections of society most affected by fuel poverty – read the report to find out more
Blog, ODI Analyses 08/11/2022
Who is most at risk of fuel poverty?
- Emma Thwaites
New report from the ODI reveals a surprising picture of fuel poverty in England today, with renters, the young, large households, lone parents and those with young children disproportionately impacted
Blog 04/11/2022
Why we need net zero data strategies
- Josh D'Addario
- Sherrelle Parke
- Volker Buscher