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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)

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

  • Open Data Barometer - The Caribbean Snapshot
    This regional snapshot covers the five Caribbean countries assessed in the fourth edition of the Barometer: Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago, Saint Lucia and Haiti
  • 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
  • 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

  • Impact Series: Improving Data Collection Capacity in Non-Technical Organizations
             Nana Baah Gyan was an embedded fellow who worked with Advocates for
  • Social Platform for Open Data – enabling interactions at Accountability Hack 2017
    Since 2015 Open Knowledge International has been part of the consortium of ROUTETOPA (
  • Every data point has a human story
    Good data leads to good policy, which means better lives for people around the world.
  • MyData 2017, Hack your heritage and other updates from Open Knowledge Finland.
    This blog post is part of our summer series featuring chapter updates from across the
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • Executive Summary Report The Caribbean Open Data Conference & Code Sprint - 2012
    Regional Executive Summary and Individual country reports for the The Caribbean Open Data
  • Open Data and Interactive Community Mapping: Empowering Local Community Tourism (Final Report)
    This final report outlines an open data and interactive community mapping strategic
  • 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
  • Fisheries and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Sector Study
    This scoping study was conducted within an overarching research project “Harnessing Open
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Regional and International Partners

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