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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)

Call for National Researchers in the Caribbean

The Caribbean Open Institute (COI) is currently seeking independent, country-level researchers for the following 8 countries: Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia,... read more
  • Global Data Barometer (GDB) in the Caribbean
  • Digital Citizen Participation in Jamaica with Tell Your MP
  • 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

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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

  • 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

  • ICTP 140: How a transportation data business is successfully navigating the pandemic, with Khalil Bryan
    In this episode we check back in with one of the tech businesses we featured in 2018:
  • Meet the organisations receiving Open Data Day 2021 mini-grants
    The Open Knowledge Foundation is happy to announce the list of organisations from all
  • Joint Statement on Data Protection and Privacy in the COVID-19 Response
    A Joint Statement on Data Protection and Privacy in the COVID-19 response was issued
  • How we are improving the quality and interoperability of Frictionless Data
    As we announced in January, the Open Knowledge Foundation has been awarded funds from the
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • Data Visualization in Review
    Report from an IDRC study that assesses the potential of data visualization to assist in
  • Towards a Caribbean Open Institute: Data, Communications and Impact
    The workshop, “Towards a Caribbean Open Institute: Data, Communications and Impact”, was
  • A Review of Freedom of Information, Data Protection and Open Data in the Caribbean
    This report was done for the Public Sector Information online: towards a Global policy
  • 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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