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THE CARIBBEAN OPEN INSTITUTE

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    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

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    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)

HarvestAPI: A Building Block to Better Agriculture Data Interfaces

Cross-posted from original Blog here:  This blog post forms part two of a three-part series in which we will be sharing the key insights and lessons learned from our... read more
  • Reimagining Jamaica’s Agriculture Data Infrastructure
  • Visualising the Structure and Linkages in the Jamaican Economy Using National...
  • Jamaica joins OGP
  • Caribbean Gateway to Open Data
  • A Hidden Gem: August Town Tour Comes to Life!
  • Build it and they will come: An Open Data Fallacy?

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Caribbean Open Data News

  • Promouvoir l’accès des jeunes filles au numérique dès leur plus jeune âge
    Le Conseil national des télécommunications (Conatel) appelle tous les acteurs à s’engager activement afin de promouvoir l’accès des jeunes filles au numérique dès leur plus jeune âge et encourager...
  • Haitian Female Entrepreneur Launches First Digital Accelerator In the Caribbean
    At just 28 years old, Ntim has received much recognition for tech achievements, which include establishing international vendor-to-consumer website Venedy, start-up company platform Global Startup...
  • Girls Create Innovations to Address Social Issues
    Approximately 90 girls and young women from 15 high schools, universities and community colleges across Jamaica competed at the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) Girls in ICT Day...
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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
  • Towards Greater Citizen Engagement and Transparency Through Open Budgeting in...
    Through the support of FRIDA the current project aims to assess the potential for the use
  • 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
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International Open Data
News, Events, Blogs

  • Open Data Day 2017: round table on transparency and corruption in Albania
    This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On
  • Measuring the openness of government data in southern Africa: the experience of a GODI contributor
    The Global Open Data Index (GODI) is one of our core projects at Open Knowledge
  • OK Sweden’s first ever EU Project (CLARITY), Open Knowledge Awards – and other quarter 4 updates
    This blog post is part of our on-going Network series featuring updates from chapters
  • How Open Data Can Fight Waste – Open Data Day 2017, Akure, Nigeria
    This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • Agriculture Digital Services Strategic Initiative (Final Report)
    This “Agriculture Digital Service” strategic initiative has sought to explore how “
  • Exploring the Potential Impacts Of Open Data In The Caribbean Through Participatory Budgeting
    This project will seek to build on the Open Data capabilities and initiatives currently
  • DevCA 2016 Conference Report
    Since its inception in 2011, the Developing the Caribbean Conference & Code Sprint
  • DevCA 2015 Conference Report
    The Developing the Caribbean Conference & Code Sprint is a product of a unique
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