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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)

Envisioning a Caribbean Data Revolution

The Caribbean is often described as "data poor" due to: Limited access to high quality, locally relevant, openly accessible data. Cultural and institutional... 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • Open Data and Interactive Community Mapping: Empowering Local Community Tourism
    As the global tourism landscape evolves, there is an emerging market for an alternative
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International Open Data
News, Events, Blogs

  • #OpenGovRetrospective – What we’ve done inspires what comes next
    Latest update: July 26, 2023 The next Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global
  • Debriefing the Open Definition workshop at RightsCon
    Three weeks ago at RightsCon Costa Rica, the Open Knowledge team ran an informal
  • Privacy computing: what it is and why it is becoming increasingly important in our data-driven world
    Privacy computing is an emerging area that extends the current concepts of data privacy
  • Open Data and Open Government: Why they are essential in bridging the transparency and accountability gap
    Although there have been longstanding efforts by Caribbean countries to digitally
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • Open Agricultural Data in Jamaica – Caribbean Knowledge Economy
    This project was conceptualized with the basic objectives of: a) Exploring the
  • Fisheries and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Sector Study
    This scoping study was conducted within an overarching research project “Harnessing Open
  • Code-for-the-Caribbean - Interim Report
    Interim Report on the Code-for-the Caribbean Fellowship engagement with RADA
  • Code-for-the-Caribbean - Guide to Launching Innovation Fellowships
    The popularity of innovation fellowships has never been greater.Around the globe,
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Regional and International Partners

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