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THE CARIBBEAN OPEN INSTITUTE

  • OPEN DATA

    providing a powerful catalyst for tackling some of the Caribbean's biggest challenges READ MORE

  • OPEN geoDATA

    Empowering Communities' expression, innovation,and entrepreneurship through Interactive Community mapping READ MORE

  • OPEN DATA

    Enhancing Governance, Policy and Decision-Making about the Caribbean's Protected Areas READ MORE

  • Open Agriculture Data

    Using Agriculture Digital Services as a platform for entrepreneurship, innovation and "wicked" problem-solving READ MORE
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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)

A Hidden Gem: August Town Tour Comes to Life!

After having a productive meeting with the Ministry of Tourism and its affiliate companies, four (4) representatives from the Tourism Product Development Company visited August... read more
  • Build it and they will come: An Open Data Fallacy?
  • Enabling Sustainable Partnerships through Open Data and Interactive Community...
  • Empowering Local Communities with Open Data and Interactive Community Mapping
  • Open Data and the Caribbean Gateway: Contributing to Sustainable Management of...
  • Caribbean Youth #Hackzika!
  • Open Data for Business in Jamaica: Initial Findings and Recommendations

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Caribbean Open Data News

  • 5 reasons why Caribbean businesses are not as data-centric as they should be
    Data analytics, business intelligence, market intelligence, are are buzzwords that have not truly taken root in Caribbean organisations. Here are...
  • Tourism Sector in DomRep disadvantaged by lack of digital innovation
    The Tourism sector in DomRep is at a competitive disadvantage due to the lack of digital innovation, warns research study by the Dominican Political...
  • Oxfam leads launch of citizen watchdog website in DomRep
    Santo Domingo.- A group of local and international organizations on Thursday launched the vigilantes.do website, defined as a tool for citizens to...
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Open Data Resources

Caribbean Open Data
Initiatives

  • Open Data and the Caribbean Gateway: Towards Improved Governance and Decision-...
    This initiative seeks to leverage and augment the ongoing Caribbean Protected Areas
  • Establish the Caribbean School of Data
    Building sustainable open data infrastructures and enabling the effective use of Open
  • Towards a Data-Driven Agriculture Sector in Jamaica
    Over the last two years, the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, the SlashRoots
  • 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 Open Source Software Matters for Government and Civic Tech – and How to Support It
    Today we’re publishing a new research paper looking at whether free/open source
  • Announcing the Legislative Openness Data Explorer
    The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is premised on the notion that sharing success
  • Opinion piece – Why Open Knowledge International should join ICANN
    This is an opinion piece by an Open Knowledge network member. You can also publish your
  • Open Knowledge Brazil summer 2016 update
    This blog post is part of our summer chapters updates and was written by the team of OK
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • Code-for-the-Caribbean - Guide to Launching Innovation Fellowships
    The popularity of innovation fellowships has never been greater.Around the globe,
  • Impact 2.0: New mechanisms for linking research and policy
    This book features case studies and reports on the use of “web 2.0″ and social networking
  • Open Government Data: A Catalyst for Jamaica’s Growth and Innovation Agenda
    This paper estimates the potential impact of Open Government Data on the Jamaican economy
  • Open Agricultural Data in Jamaica – Caribbean Knowledge Economy
    This project was conceptualized with the basic objectives of: a) Exploring the
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Regional and International Partners

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