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WHO WE ARE

The Caribbean Open Institute (COI) is a regional coalition of individuals and organizations that promotes open development approaches to inclusion, participation and innovation within the Caribbean, using open data as a catalyst. Our focus is on: Advocacy, awareness, and engagement with public sector stakeholders on Open Government and Open Data; Evidence of the potential impacts of Open Data initiatives through demand-side research initiatives in various thematic sectors; Capacity building in data literacy, competence and application as an essential component of Caribbean development

Our Stories (Blogs)

JUMPing toward a Digitally Inclusive Society

The Caribbean is abuzz with excitement!  JUMP, an initiative by Cable and Wireless Charitable Foundation (CWCF)  in collaboration with regional governments, private... read more
  • Women-Centred Disaster Resilience in Haiti
  • From Brainstorm to (Almost) Blastoff: Building ClearPath, an Accessible...
  • Digital Citizen Participation in Jamaica with Tell Your MP
  • HarvestAPI: A Building Block to Better Agriculture Data Interfaces
  • Reimagining Jamaica’s Agriculture Data Infrastructure
  • Visualising the Structure and Linkages in the Jamaican Economy Using National...

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Caribbean Open Data News

  • Digital Literacy and How it Affects the Digital Divide in the Caribbean
    Internet access and use is growing across the Caribbean. However, digital literacy versus digital illiteracy is now where the digital divide exists.
  • Haiti Open Data - a small revolution in the country
    The "Haiti Open Data" internet platform is a unique and powerful bilingual tool, which took several months of work done with IDB support and in partnership with a dozen local and...
  • Tech Efforts Help with Response to Recent Hurricanes [see section]
    In the wake of a series of devastating hurricanes that have swept through Texas, Florida and the Caribbean, tech efforts involving government continue to be valuable assets for the affected regions,...
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Open Data Resources

Caribbean Open Data
Initiatives

  • Towards a Data-Driven Agriculture Sector in Jamaica
    Over the last two years, the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, the SlashRoots
  • Establish the Caribbean School of Data
    Building sustainable open data infrastructures and enabling the effective use of Open
  • Open Data and Interactive Community Mapping: Empowering Local Community Tourism
    As the global tourism landscape evolves, there is an emerging market for an alternative
  • Visualizing the structure and inkages in the Jamaican economy using National...
    The sectors of the economy are all linked together as portions of the output in one
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International Open Data
News, Events, Blogs

  • Why I am dedicating time to the CSTD Working Group on Data Governance and the 2025-2026 UN Working Group on Safeguards for Digital Public Infrastructure
    Photo: Lucas Pretti/OKFN As Chief Executive Officer of the Open Knowledge
  • Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’
    Join the Open Knowledge Network in a roundtable to discuss the meaning of openness today
  • ICTP 353: Who is watching our data, AI hype or opportunity, and building smart islands
    In our May 2025 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community,
  • Building AI-Ready Communities: Meet the Global Cohort Transforming Data Practice with Open Data Editor
    ODE in action: A new cohort of pilot organisations will start testing ODE with new
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • Tourism Sector Study
    The Caribbean tourism sector can benefit from Open Data initiatives to bring value to the
  • Developing the Caribbean Brief - 2013
    The Caribbean Open Data Conference is a regional technology conference and code sprint,
  • DevCA-CMIP Instructions
  • A Review of Freedom of Information, Data Protection and Open Data in the Caribbean
    This report was done for the Public Sector Information online: towards a Global policy
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