The National Data Strategy is part of a conversation about the way data is used in the UK. A new report from defenddigitalme describes why it matters that the words used in that conversation alienate young people. Jen Persson, Founder of defenddigitalme will discuss why common metaphors don’t work, what it means for the success or failure of delivering a sustainable data policy, and what needs to change. “Data is the new avocado” might describe the decaying shelf life of records, but not much mo...
Sep 17, 2021•51 min
In this podcast we hear three inspiring stories from the first cohort of the ODI Microsoft Peer Learning Network, an initiative which aims to give data collaborations working on significant societal challenges the opportunity to share and learn from each other. Host Elea Himmelsbach leads the conversation with Marisa Miodosky from the Caring Indicator System in Buenos Aires, Claire Ramden who’s developing reuse.id in the UK, and Dr Gao Feng who’s leading on the Fintech Innovation Data Collaborat...
Aug 09, 2021•20 min
Experimentalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an ambitious new ODI policy project, which explores how data policy makers and data practitioners can work in more innovative and experimental ways to adapt to, and leverage, the fast-moving societal and economic challenges and opportunities around new data availability and associated digital technologies. The first roundtable took place on Monday 19 July and focuses on new parameters in data policy and practice. It was convened by the Open...
Jul 22, 2021•9 min
Experimentalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an ambitious new ODI policy project, which explores how data policy makers and data practitioners can work in more innovative and experimental ways to adapt to, and leverage, the fast-moving societal and economic challenges and opportunities around new data availability and associated digital technologies. The first roundtable took place on Monday 19 July and focuses on new parameters in data policy and practice. It was convened by the Open...
Jul 22, 2021•6 min
Experimentalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an ambitious new ODI policy project, which explores how data policy makers and data practitioners can work in more innovative and experimental ways to adapt to, and leverage, the fast-moving societal and economic challenges and opportunities around new data availability and associated digital technologies. The first roundtable took place on Monday 19 July and focuses on new parameters in data policy and practice. It was convened by the Open...
Jul 22, 2021•8 min
Experimentalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an ambitious new ODI policy project, which explores how data policy makers and data practitioners can work in more innovative and experimental ways to adapt to, and leverage, the fast-moving societal and economic challenges and opportunities around new data availability and associated digital technologies. The first roundtable took place on Monday 19 July and focuses on new parameters in data policy and practice. It was convened by the Open...
Jul 22, 2021•7 min
Experimentalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an ambitious new ODI policy project, which explores how data policy makers and data practitioners can work in more innovative and experimental ways to adapt to, and leverage, the fast-moving societal and economic challenges and opportunities around new data availability and associated digital technologies. The first roundtable took place on Monday 19 July and focuses on new parameters in data policy and practice. It was convened by the Open...
Jul 22, 2021•8 min
Experimentalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an ambitious new ODI policy project, which explores how data policy makers and data practitioners can work in more innovative and experimental ways to adapt to, and leverage, the fast-moving societal and economic challenges and opportunities around new data availability and associated digital technologies. The first roundtable took place on Monday 19 July and focuses on new parameters in data policy and practice. It was convened by the Open...
Jul 22, 2021•3 min
In the first episode of the second season of the Open Data Institute’s Inside Business podcast - the ODI’s Learning and Business Development Director, Stuart Coleman, is joined by two self confessed data evangelists, both of whom use storytelling to create a ‘culture’ of data in organisations. One even says that business leaders who don’t understand the importance of data literacy might as well “pack their bags and leave their desks”. Stuart Coleman, the ODI’s Learning and Business Development D...
Jul 12, 2021•28 min
How can Fortune 500 companies make better use of the data they already have to build a picture of their audience, before conducting new research or data collection? Sharon Joseph, CEO of CREWASIS and Harvard Business School alumni, will share how to make better use of internal data sources, external data sources and open data using case studies developed in the top healthcare and CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies in the US. She’ll also share how free tools such as social media monitoring t...
Jul 09, 2021•53 min
Affective computing refers to the use of computers to analyse data about human behaviour, such as facial expressions, gestures, and language, for its emotional information. But can a machine really learn about and infer emotions from digitised behaviour, typically captured as text, images, audio and video? How does it compare with human performance? How well do we understand how emotions are expressed and why? In this talk, we will look at the theories and the algorithms, and the benefits and co...
Jul 02, 2021•56 min
Whilst we are the cusp of the pandemic, has anyone considered what will happen in the future when a new threat hits our shores? The government currently relies on letters and SMS messages through fragmented GP practices to mass communicate with us about our health. Other countries utilise a national ID card to centralise records. When we get our jabs, very little is computerised and we often wonder how our data is being managed, and how we’ll be communicated to. This talk asks: how do we balance...
Jun 25, 2021•52 min
This podcast, introduced by Jared Keller of the ODI, explores two questions: why is it important for organisations to empower people to play a more active role in deciding what happens to their data? And second, which system of decision making is best - individual, collective or delegated? Three guests, Julian Tait from Open Data Manchester, Anouk Ruhaak from Mozilla Foundation and Emmett Townsend from Inrupt talk about their own organisations and the challenges and benefits of each approach, be...
Jun 25, 2021•30 min
‘Why let a few tech executives and engineers control the algorithms that shape our lives? In an effort to democratize this technology, we have created an automated decision making program that learns from you. After a brief assessment, you can be a part of the system. You can be Fairly Intelligent™️.’ Artist A.M. Darke discusses the process of developing Fairly Intelligent™️, a speculative fiction about the world’s worst algorithm posing as the world’s best algorithm. **Please note, this talk st...
Jun 18, 2021•57 min
Effective use of data relies on good ethical foundations. While national data institutions have the power to issue papers, guidance, and create sound tools for evaluating ethical needs and setting standards, only the Government has the power to make legislation and issue binding policy requirements. This talk explores the Government’s practice in one specific area – making legislation relevant to data and digitalisation – though a forensic review of relevant statutes and regulations made in 2020...
Jun 11, 2021•52 min
howthey.watch/you exposes the tracking technology built into our everyday experience of internet browsing. Artist Nick Briz discusses his online work, which explores this technology and asks important questions about its uses beyond fingerprinting and, ultimately, tracking. By exposing the misuses of this technology Briz encourages viewers to take an active role in protecting their online privacy. This piece was commissioned by ODI Data as Culture for the Rules of Engagement online exhibition an...
May 28, 2021•46 min
This talk will shed a light on the open data development in China, focussing on key milestones where open data was studied, adopted and re-defined in China. Dr. Feng Gao, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Open Data China will talk us through what works and what does not about open data in China, and will illustrate the significant differences in open data development between China and western countries. He will also discuss how the ‘re-defined’ open data fits into China’s digital economy agend...
May 14, 2021•31 min
Data is the life blood of the healthcare system. It has the enormous potential to address societal and economic health challenges like early the early detection, screening and monitoring of non-communicable diseases, like Parkinson’s. To maximise the potential of AI in the treatment of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), there’s an urgent need to transform the healthcare system by opening access to data collected during healthcare interventions. iKure is a primary healthcare provider with focus on...
May 07, 2021•25 min
People are increasingly buying online – accelerated by the growth of Covid-19. This year IMRG Capgemini Online Retail Results for January 2021 revealed that UK online sales grew 74% year-on-year in January 2021. But what does this mean for our local areas, and how can couriers, businesses, councils, local families and activists work together to ensure local deliveries are safe, clean and healthy? In this talk, Martin Howitt from The Data Place will explain how they are collecting environmental d...
May 07, 2021•24 min
In this fourth episode of the ODI Inside Business podcast, the ODI’s Learning and Business Development Director, Stuart Coleman, is joined by high-profile expert, Robin Sutara, newly appointed Chief Data Officer at Microsoft UK, for a lively discussion on why culture change should power organisations’ data strategy plans. We explore what cultural and mindset shifts are needed to facilitate the implementation and execution of a viable data strategy. We also discuss how Microsoft has shifted their...
Mar 24, 2021•21 min
Does more data make for better politics? Are new sources of data, on everything from expenses to voting to Wikipedia changes, altering how we think about politics? What can the monitoring of parliament tell us about what impact, good or bad, this is having on democracy? We can now monitor the activities of our representatives in ways we couldn’t imagine a few decades ago, seeing at the push of a button how they vote, what they say and what they spend. Our new project looks at whether new platfor...
Mar 12, 2021•48 min
On 3 March 2021 the Open Data Institute (ODI) convened the ‘Inclusive data roundtable’ in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Centre for Public Data, bringing together representatives from government, academia, funders, civil society and community organisations. The aim of the roundtable was to catalyse discussion and creative thinking as we prepare the ODI’s response to the ONS Inclusive Data Taskforce consultation, so the meeting was structured around a series of provocations. ...
Mar 12, 2021•3 min
On 3 March 2021 the Open Data Institute (ODI) convened the ‘Inclusive data roundtable’ in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Centre for Public Data, bringing together representatives from government, academia, funders, civil society and community organisations. The aim of the roundtable was to catalyse discussion and creative thinking as we prepare the ODI’s response to the ONS Inclusive Data Taskforce consultation, so the meeting was structured around a series of provocations. ...
Mar 12, 2021•8 min
On 3 March 2021 the Open Data Institute (ODI) convened the ‘Inclusive data roundtable’ in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Centre for Public Data, bringing together representatives from government, academia, funders, civil society and community organisations. The aim of the roundtable was to catalyse discussion and creative thinking as we prepare the ODI’s response to the ONS Inclusive Data Taskforce consultation, so the meeting was structured around a series of provocations. ...
Mar 12, 2021•6 min
On 3 March 2021 the Open Data Institute (ODI) convened the ‘Inclusive data roundtable’ in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Centre for Public Data, bringing together representatives from government, academia, funders, civil society and community organisations. The aim of the roundtable was to catalyse discussion and creative thinking as we prepare the ODI’s response to the ONS Inclusive Data Taskforce consultation, so the meeting was structured around a series of provocations. ...
Mar 12, 2021•9 min
On 3 March 2021 the Open Data Institute (ODI) convened the ‘Inclusive data roundtable’ in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Centre for Public Data, bringing together representatives from government, academia, funders, civil society and community organisations. The aim of the roundtable was to catalyse discussion and creative thinking as we prepare the ODI’s response to the ONS Inclusive Data Taskforce consultation, so the meeting was structured around a series of provocations. ...
Mar 12, 2021•7 min
Data about people’s health is no longer confined to medical records and clinical trials. It is gathered by wearable technologies and smartphone apps; it is inferred from shopping habits and online behaviour; it is used by insurers and advertisers for purposes besides healthcare or medical research. This is the datafication of health, and it has significant consequences for people and society. My colleagues and I at the Ada Lovelace Institute have been working to better understand the dataficatio...
Feb 26, 2021•43 min
In this third episode of the ODI Inside Business podcast, the ODI’s Learning and Business Development Director, Stuart Coleman, is joined by four high-profile business leaders for a lively discussion on data strategy, and why it matters for businesses now more than ever. We explore what data strategy means to different types of organisations and how it should take into consideration the wider data ecosystem, outside business boundaries. We also discuss some of the challenges and barriers that or...
Feb 24, 2021•45 min
When a 999 emergency call is made to the Coastguard in the UK, the relatively seamless, well-oiled nature of the process would lead most people to assume that only one organisation is behind the heroic rescue effort. In reality, a variety of organisations come together to perform a rescue operation and the data generated by this are equally as broad and diverse. Similarly, the fact that many organisations work harmoniously in this way would lead us to assume that all data generated from marine i...
Feb 12, 2021•37 min
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be one of the principal factors in how we now organize our daily existence. The pandemic has – rightly – become the focus of much of the planet and in the scramble to manage local outbreaks and protect national economies, new ways of collating information ‘to protect the public’ have been rolled out on masse. The pandemic, and our response to it, has brought to the fore many questions in relation to how and who collects, uses maps and understands data. However,...
Feb 06, 2021•41 min
