Case studies

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Our case studies describe some of our research and commercial projects, exploring the use of open and shared data across sectors and topic areas

ODI projects: case studies

Find out how we have explored the use of open and shared data across a variety of research and commercial projects, from agriculture and health research, to data ethics and ecosystem mapping.

Blog, Case study 24/08/2022
Helping the physical activity sector use open data to get more people active
- Data publishing and use
- Health and physical activity
- Innovation
We worked with Sport England to develop OpenActive – a community-led data access initiative to get more people active using open data
Blog, Case study 05/07/2022
Supporting open and trustworthy health data ecosystems in Europe with Roche
- Health and physical activity
- Policy
- Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
- Mark Boyd
How the Open Data Institute worked with Roche to map the policy landscape for secondary use of health data across Europe
Case study 10/05/2022
The Social Data Foundation – facilitating safe access to health and social care data
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data publishing and use
- Health and physical activity
- Ben Snaith
- Josh D'Addario
We look at the Social Data Foundation – a partnership to research and design mechanisms to improve trustworthy data governance for health and social care
Case study 04/05/2022
The WAter Incident Database (WAID) – saving lives with collaborative water data
- Data publishing and use
- Ben Snaith
- Josh D'Addario
The WAter Incident Database (WAID) is a service developed by the National Water Safety Forum (NWSF) to bring together water-related incident data from a wide range of sources within the UK
Blog, Case study 28/04/2022
DCC Data for Good: Achieving net zero through smart meter data access
- Data publishing and use
- Weather, energy and environment
- Josh D'Addario
We’ve worked with the Data Communications Company (DCC) to support Data for Good – a data access initiative to improve smart meter data access to benefit people and the planet
Case study 06/04/2022
BBC Datalab: Developing new services, maintaining values
- Data ethics and privacy
- Skills and literacy
We’ve worked with the BBC to increase data literacy within the organisation and to ensure that the principles of data ethics are embedded in the design and implementation of new recommender products and services
Case study 06/04/2022
Data Ethics Professionals: Raising design team awareness of data ethics at IBM
- Data ethics and privacy
- Skills and literacy
We talk to Andrea Barbarin (Senior Design Researcher and Practice Lead at IBM) about how she was able to embed data ethics into IBM’s design teams after taking the ODI’s Data Ethics Facillitators and Professionals course
Case study 06/04/2022
Data Ethics Professionals: The value of data ethics in developing AI strategies
- Data ethics and privacy
- Skills and literacy
- Andrew Burgess
We talk to Andrew Burgess (CEO of Greenhouse Intelligence, AI strategist and management consultant) about how he was able to apply a new data ethics lens to his work after taking the Open Data Institute (ODI)’s Data Ethics Professionals course
Blog, Case study 01/11/2021
Helping Barclays build trust through data ethics
- Data ethics and privacy
We’ve worked with Barclays UK to help them to consider and document decisions made about data in an ethical way
Blog, Case study 01/11/2021
Project Odysseus – using existing infrastructure to tackle new problems
- Covid-19
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Policy
- Cities
- Transport
- Ben Snaith
- Josh D'Addario
We look at The Alan Turing Institute’s Project Odysseus, which transitioned from improving air quality to capturing ‘busyness’ in London to help inform Covid-19 response