By building a small-scale prototype, we explore the challenges and opportunities facing the NDL initiative.

Earlier this year, the Labour manifesto laid out a vision for technological innovation going hand in hand with economic growth and societal change, building the UK into a science and technology ...

Data is the foundation of AI. Poor quality data drives up costs and can lead to hidden problems for AI, especially in complex fields like healthcare. Meanwhile, biased data negatively affects the ...

A project to build an open data infrastructure for volunteering in the UK has reached a significant milestone today, with the Open Data Institute (ODI), Do IT, and Team Kinetic publishing the outcomes ...

In this report, we place responsible data amongst other concepts which describe how data should be used. From our research we then develop an interpretation of responsible data stewardship to use in ...

Open standards and shared frameworks are essential for reducing the cost of AI adoption and helping organisations use AI responsibly. We are convening a diverse range of enterprise stakeholders (from ...

The Open Data Institute (ODI) is partnering with SAP to deliver and govern IDEA, a programme of research, community building, and peer learning designed to help enterprises of all sizes make their ...

In our response to the UK Government's call for input on the forthcoming AI Action Plan, the Open Data Institute (ODI) focuses on establishing an AI-ready National Data Library. While other ...

There is a growing movement towards openness in the UK water industry and progress is already being made both within individual companies and at a sector level. This comes proactively from many of the ...

You can’t go 10 minutes without hearing about data these days. “Data blogs.” “Big data.” “Data protection.” “Data.” “Daahta.” And let’s face it – whether it’s about ‘men in black’ reading our emails ...

Join Corinne Russell, Data Ethics Lead, Police Scotland for a session looking at how Police Scotland have embedded data ethics in their use of technology. Police Scotland has been recognised as ...

Programme Lead for Data Institutions, Jack Hardinges, discusses the ODI’s ongoing work to test data trusts as an approach to stewarding data, and some of the recent developments in the field To ...