Find out about the seven open-data-stewarding organisations selected to receive guidance and other support from the ODI and Microsoft Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Metabrainz ...

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This report aims to map the UK government’s activity on ‘data literacy’, as part of the ODI’s work supporting the development of the UK’s data economy The UK government recognises the importance of ...

Multinational organisations are collaborating in the open to build an openly licensed map of the world: OpenStreetMap. Here’s what we’ve learned so far about what makes this kind of collaboration work ...

Geospatial data is about places. It might be about a specific building, a river or other natural feature, or a broader location like a city or country. This report summarises the desk research carried ...

What does it mean to license data? What licence should you use? How can you indicate the licence that a dataset is available under? This guide answers these questions At its simplest, open data ...

As AI systems become increasingly used in everyday work and life, understanding key aspects of how these systems have been created and how far to trust the outcomes is becoming more and more essential ...

Data trusts are an approach to looking after and making decisions about data in a similar way that trusts have been used to look after and make decisions about other forms of asset in the past, such ...

The data ethics maturity model is a tool for anyone who collects, uses and shares data. It helps assess and benchmark how widely embedded data ethics culture and practices are across your organisation ...

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 ...

‘Data about children’s lives in the pandemic’ looks at the impact of the pandemic on children’s lives, and the wellbeing of parents and teachers, through the lens of new data made available to the ODI ...