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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

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    Building Digital Capacity in Haiti to increase young women's access to online jobs READ MORE

  • OPEN geoDATA

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

Digital Citizen Participation in Jamaica with Tell Your MP

Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) have been gaining traction among governments worldwide as a means of facilitating local social and economic development projects. While they... read more
  • 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...
  • Jamaica joins OGP
  • Caribbean Gateway to Open Data
  • A Hidden Gem: August Town Tour Comes to Life!

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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

  • 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
  • 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
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International Open Data
News, Events, Blogs

  • Apply now to become a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow
    The Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellows Program, supported by the Sloan
  • Examining public procurement data in Costa Rica: Open Data Day 2020 report
    On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the
  • Exploring budget data in Cameroon: Open Data Day 2020 report
    On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the
  • Promoting open data to journalists and artists in the DRC: Open Data Day 2020 report
    On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the
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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,
  • Open Agricultural Data in Jamaica – Caribbean Knowledge Economy
    This project was conceptualized with the basic objectives of: a) Exploring the
  • DevCA 2016 Conference Report
    Since its inception in 2011, the Developing the Caribbean Conference & Code Sprint
  • 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
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