The UK Government's newly published Modern Industrial Strategy is a significant recognition of the central role of data in the country's economic future. Data is explicitly treated as a strategic ...

News The murky world of political adverts on social media may damage our democracy People have a right to know where political adverts originate, who is paying for them and how they are being targeted ...

Report Outcome of the INSPIRE regulations 2009 review [report] This report assesses the extent to which INSPIRE has achieved its objectives and makes recommendations for INSPIRE’s future in the UK ...

At its simplest, open data requires just two things: data and openness. There are lots of aspects to openness, but at its most fundamental, the key is how the data is licensed. Data that doesn't ...

Read the Google Docs version of the report Read the PDF version of the report This report aims to map the UK government’s activity on ‘data literacy’, as part of the ODI’s work supporting the ...

Read the report Read the report ‘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 ...

Report Building a better future with data and AI: a white paper This white paper outlines our vision for artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK, emphasising the need for robust data infrastructure, ...

This paper explores how open data can be used in public service delivery and its potential for collaboration, joint problem-solving and open innovation. It highlights where open data has been released ...

At the ODI, we want a world where people can meaningfully participate in the data economy. We want them to help shape how data is used to create positive outcomes for society, the environment and the ...

A data trust provides independent, fiduciary stewardship of data 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 ...

Data ethics maturity model: helping you assess your level of maturity in ethical data use The data ethics maturity model is a tool for anyone who collects, uses and shares data. It helps assess and ...

Could ‘data trusts’ help to increase data sharing while retaining trust from both people and organisations? We’ve been researching and piloting the impacts of ‘data trusts’ in the real world ...