The ODI was founded in 2012 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, placing us at the heart of the data economy. Our primary mission is to foster transparency, accountability, and innovation through data.

This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data. It supports a variety of users, including policy leads, domain experts and technologists.

Apr 6, 2018 · About us. The ODI is a non-profit company committed to promoting and advancing trust in data, including open data, shared data and closed - or private - data.

Dec 5, 2024 · This report is part of the research project ‘From co-generated data to generative AI’ and sets out the work completed between June 2023 and May 2024.

Nov 5, 2024 · In November 2023, the Open Data Institute launched its data-centric AI programme in response to an unprecedented wave of research, development, and policy-making about artificial intelligence in the wake of the launch of ChatGPT in 2022. As outlined in our white paper on data-centric AI, we stand at an important moment in AI innovation and deployment – one that will be fundamentally shaped ...

Data assurance is essential to enable trusted and trustworthy data practices – find out more about the ODI's approach to data assurance in this white paper

Oct 15, 2024 · About us. The ODI is a non-profit company committed to promoting and advancing trust in data, including open data, shared data and closed - or private - data.

Nov 18, 2024 · The second reading of the Data (Use and Access) Bill is scheduled for 19 November, and there's an opportunity to shape how smart data schemes (found in Part 1 of the Bill) and data governance rules could transform our digital economy. Building on our initial response to the Bill, here's what we think needs attention as Parliament examines the legislation.

This definition is not a completely new one. It builds on existing work and definitions used by others, such as Lilian Edwards’ research on the potential role of data trusts and Sean McDonald and Keith Porcaro’s descriptions of ‘civic data trusts’.. We also propose some characteristics for a good data trust, which we describe later in this blogpost.

Your learning journey. Our online learning courses are an opportunity to develop data skills with the support of the ODI’s expert trainers. Through interactive webinars and online learning platforms you will engage with your learning group, share ideas, gain help when needed and access a wide range of interactive learning resources.