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

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    Our Mission: to increase employability for Caribbean youth through digital and data literacy READ MORE

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

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    A new global benchmark for data governance, data capability, data availability, and data use for the public good READ MORE

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

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Home » Welcome to the Caribbean Open Institute (COI)

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

  • 2 Caribbean projects win the 2017 FRIDA Regional Fund for Digital Innovation
    The FRIDA 2017 edition announced three innovative initiatives designed to address different educational and environmental challenges in the LAC region. Winner  in the program's...
  • Data: the new oil for T&T?
    As Trinidad & Tobago seeks to diminish the country’s dependence on hydrocarbons, efforts are being made to emphasize access to data services as a source for economic growth. At a conference...
  • 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
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Open Data Resources

Caribbean Open Data
Initiatives

  • 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
  • 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

  • Application for the Open Data Day 2022 small grants is now open!
    Open Knowledge Foundation is excited to announce the launch of the Open Data Day 2022
  • Public Webinar: Best Practices in Responsibly Harnessing Data in Times of Public Health Crises
    21 April at 9:00 AM
  • Combining Data Skills, Knowledge, and Networks to Save our Planet
    Originally published on: https://frictionlessdata.io/blog/2022/03/09/save-our-planet/
  • Data that empowers: LAC perspectives on data governance
    A few weeks ago we had a conversation in the Statistical Conference of the Americas about
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • Official Statistics Sector Study
    The peculiarities of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), small land masses and low
  • Code-for-the-Caribbean - Guide to Launching Innovation Fellowships
    The popularity of innovation fellowships has never been greater.Around the globe,
  • Fisheries and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Sector Study
    This scoping study was conducted within an overarching research project “Harnessing Open
  • 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
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Regional and International Partners

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