Keynote – Dr Emiliano Treré, Reader, Cardiff University; Co-Director, Data Justice Lab
Keynote – Dr Emiliano Treré, Reader, Cardiff University; Co-Director, Data Justice Lab by The Open Data Institute
Mar 10, 2022•8 min
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Introduction – Dr Mahlet (“Milly”) Zimeta, Head of Public Policy, ODI
Introduction – Dr Mahlet (“Milly”) Zimeta, Head of Public Policy, ODI by The Open Data Institute
Mar 10, 2022•3 min
Data to Measure UK Wellbeing
How better data ecosystems can help the UK understand national wellbeing. As part of the ODI's Data Ecosystems & Innovation programme, we have been looking at data to measure the recovery in the UK. We often see headlines in the news about how GDP is down, or inflation is up, or CO2 emissions are rising. But how are these numbers created? Where does the data come from? What are the ecosystems, or the flows of data, that make these measurements possible? More importantly, how can we improve t...
Mar 08, 2022•31 min
ODI Fridays: How can we make better use of open data in the built environment?
Slides are viewable here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v-5z6HwGy8bq3j6EV4ZnsUt35HzEPAoZvGLOgWX3pfs/edit?usp=sharing In this talk, Claire Fram (Director and Product Manager, Diagonal) and Gala Camacho (Director and Data Scientist, Diagonal) discuss the challenges of making use of fragmented (open) data in the built environment. City planners, architects, developers and engineers are faced with a plethora of data that exist in orthogonal layers, limiting their ability to interrogate how ...
Mar 04, 2022•43 min
ODI Fridays: Open research – making harmful habits history
How can open research help overcome the issues currently affecting the research community? In this talk, Ashley Farley (Program Officer of Knowledge and Research Services and the lead of the Open Access team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) discusses the issues currently plaguing the research community – such as perverse incentives, publish or perish perceptions, and information overload – and how open research practices can provide a salve. The solution focuses on building from commu...
Jan 28, 2022•49 min
ODI Fridays: Driving sustainable innovation with geospatial data
In this talk, Adam Mew (Developer Marketing Lead, Ordnance Survey) and Carly Morris (Head of Geovation, Ordnance Survey) share how the OS Map & Hack enabled geospatial data to be used to drive sustainable innovation across multiple industries and disciplines. OS Map & Hack was a virtual hackathon dedicated to transportation and sustainability, bringing together teams across government, private enterprise, start-up, and academia communities. The outputs included new and enhanced solutions...
Jan 14, 2022•39 min
ODI Fridays: Finding new ways to share digital art
In this talk, Mateus Domingos will be discussing the Careful Networks project with three of the participating artists: Larisa Blazic, Ailie Rutherford and Shinji Toya. Careful Networks is a project initiated by Phoenix in partnership with BOM, Furtherfield, The Photographers’ Gallery, QUAD and Vivid Projects. The temporary P2P network is home to a series of newly commissioned artworks. Each work was initially hosted by another artist. The network exists through a collaborative act of care and st...
Dec 18, 2021•54 min
12 Data Days of Christmas
Hosted by Gavin Freeguard (ODI Special Adviser and data singer-songwriter), special guests from across the ODI discuss some contested data terms – all set to a festive ditty
Dec 17, 2021•27 min
ODI Fridays: How the BBC builds public service recommenders with data
The BBC is one of the world’s leading broadcasters, producing a large amount of content including video, audio and text, spanning topics such as news, sport, education, and entertainment. In order to fulfil its public service remit, the BBC must serve all its audiences, providing each audience member with the most relevant and engaging content for them. Up to now, manual curation has been the main approach used by the organisation to achieve that. However, that comes with some challenges: it is ...
Dec 10, 2021•52 min
Provocation 3 – Becky Wright, Executive Director, Unions 21
Provocation 3 – Becky Wright, Executive Director, Unions 21 by The Open Data Institute
Dec 09, 2021•8 min
Provocation 2 – Prof Maria Savona, Professor of Economics of Innovation, SPRU University of Sussex
Provocation 2 – Prof Maria Savona, Professor of Economics of Innovation, SPRU University of Sussex by The Open Data Institute
Dec 09, 2021•7 min
Provocation 1 – Dr Kate Devlin, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural AI, King’s College London
Provocation 1 – Dr Kate Devlin, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural AI, King’s College London by The Open Data Institute
Dec 09, 2021•6 min
Keynote – Prof Jenna Burrell, Director of Research, Data & Society
Keynote – Prof Jenna Burrell, Director of Research, Data & Society by The Open Data Institute
Dec 09, 2021•9 min
Introduction – Dr Mahlet (“Milly”) Zimeta, Head of Public Policy, ODI
Introduction – Dr Mahlet (“Milly”) Zimeta, Head of Public Policy, ODI by The Open Data Institute
Dec 09, 2021•3 min
Provocation 3 – Prof Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder/Chief Research and Development Officer, The GovLab
Provocation 3 – Prof Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder/Chief Research and Development Officer, The GovLab by The Open Data Institute
Dec 02, 2021•9 min
Provocation 2 – Jarmo Suomisto, Project Manager, Helsinki 3D+
Provocation 2 – Jarmo Suomisto, Project Manager, Helsinki 3D+ by The Open Data Institute
Dec 02, 2021•6 min
Provocation 1 – Rudi Borrmann, Lead, Open Government Partnership Local
Provocation 1 – Rudi Borrmann, Lead, Open Government Partnership Local by The Open Data Institute
Dec 02, 2021•10 min
Keynote – Aaron Maniam, Ministry of Communications & Information, Singapore
Keynote – Aaron Maniam, Ministry of Communications & Information, Singapore by The Open Data Institute
Dec 02, 2021•12 min
Introduction – Dr Mahlet (“Milly”) Zimeta, Head of Public Policy, ODI
Introduction – Dr Mahlet (“Milly”) Zimeta, Head of Public Policy, ODI by The Open Data Institute
Dec 02, 2021•3 min
ODI Fridays: Data, art and living systems
This is a recording of the ODI Fridays event on Zoom In this talk, ODI Artist in Residence Rohini Devasher and artist/ODI Art Associate Julie Freeman discuss using technology and data to strengthen our connection to the natural world and our understanding of climate change challenges. (This talk was originally presented at the V&A Digital Design Weekend) About the speakers Rohini Devasher’s current research brings together her interest in early scientific observational instruments and contem...
Nov 26, 2021•50 min
ODI Fridays: Data and dealing with the building safety crisis
After the Grenfell tragedy the government hoped it would be able to address safety issues in other buildings within a year. Now more than four and a half years on, the cladding crisis has turned into a building safety crisis which now impacts hundreds of thousands of homes across the country. Martin Boyd and Sebastian O’Kelly from the charity Leasehold Knowledge Partnership will discuss: ‘Years of systemic failings in building standards are now exposed. People are unable to afford to remediate t...
Nov 12, 2021•52 min
ODI Fridays: Data ethics in practice, where are we now?
In this talk, Dr John Burton – Data Consultant at the Open Data Institute (ODI) – will discuss some of the background of the data ethics work at the ODI and describe what organisations are considering to make their data ethics practices more mature. He will show the work of the ODI on the data maturity model, and share some of the early feedback from our user research in this space. Finally, he will discuss where the organisation is going in the short term and how that may develop the ODI’s offe...
Nov 05, 2021•34 min
ODI Fridays: Leveraging data to demonstrate impact
Increasingly, the better able you are to tell your performance story the better able you are to get the resources you need for your project. Francis Loughheed, Senior Policy Advisor at Canadian Forest Service, will present a methodology that brings data to results-based management to tell compelling performance stories. Based on 15 years experience working in performance measurement across the Government of Canada, this presentation will be of special interest for government and public sector ag...
Oct 22, 2021•40 min
ODI Fridays: Data cooperatives – the answer to data sharing that benefits all?
In 2020 -21, Open Data Manchester set out to discover whether a data cooperative model could be developed that would enable organisations and communities collect, pool, process and share data for the benefits of their members. This talk will discusses some of the findings of that work and the work of the Data Cooperative Working Group that formed from it. This work was supported by the ODI’s Data Stimulus Fund, and Open Data Manchester worked with Carbon Coop and others. About the speaker Julian...
Oct 01, 2021•45 min
Provocation 6 – Jeremy Stimson – New societal expectations and the changing scope of ESG
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 second roundtable took place on Monday 20 September and focuses on experimentation in data policy and practice around environmental,...
Sep 23, 2021•8 min
Provocation 5 – Leon Saunders Calvert – New analytical methods for ESG
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 second roundtable took place on Monday 20 September and focuses on experimentation in data policy and practice around environmental,...
Sep 23, 2021•8 min
Provocation 4 – Dr Luis Fabiano de Assis – New data sources for ESG
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 second roundtable took place on Monday 20 September and focuses on experimentation in data policy and practice around environmental,...
Sep 23, 2021•7 min
Provocation 3 – Alice Eckstein – Addressing data gaps in anti-slavery policy
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 second roundtable took place on Monday 20 September and focuses on experimentation in data policy and practice around environmental,...
Sep 23, 2021•6 min
Provocation 2 – Dr Jeni Tennison – Experimentalism and ESG
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 second roundtable took place on Monday 20 September and focuses on experimentation in data policy and practice around environmental,...
Sep 23, 2021•7 min
Provocation 1 – Dr Milly Zimeta – Octavia’s new suns
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 second roundtable took place on Monday 20 September and focuses on experimentation in data policy and practice around environmental,...
Sep 23, 2021•3 min
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