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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

  • Organizer Promises “Groundbreaking” Haiti Tech Conference
    The Haiti Tech Summit is a 13-year initiative of the Global Startup Ecosystem (GSE)- which hosts the world’s first and largest online digital accelerator across 7 global regions-...
  • Girls ‘hack’ for empowerment
    On April 27 as we prepare to celebrate the International Telecommunications Union’s ‘Girls in ICT Day’, girls and young women across three Caribbean islands are being...
  • Playing digital catch-up: Finding opportunities for Haiti
    Haiti is behind the rest of the world in the digital revolution. Internet coverage remains limited and expensive. Just four percent of households have access, and fewer than 1% of Haitians have...
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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
  • Open Data and Interactive Community Mapping: Empowering Local Community Tourism
    As the global tourism landscape evolves, there is an emerging market for an alternative
  • 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
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International Open Data
News, Events, Blogs

  • Announcing the winners of the Open Data Day 2022 small grants
    Open Knowledge Foundation is excited to announce the list of organisations who have been
  • EITI Datathon: Innovative solutions for a data-driven energy transition – Send your proposals before July 31st
    Open Knowledge Foundation is thrilled to announce the launch of a global open call
  • Frictionless Planet and Lacuna Fund discuss gaps in climate datasets for machine learning
    On 24 June we hosted a conversation with the Lacuna Fund about datasets for climate
  • Snapshot: Updated price of 1 GB of mobile data across the Caribbean in 2022
    The results of a global study on the price of 1 GB of mobile data were recently published
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • DevCA2013 - Open Data Conference and Code Sprint
    The Developing the Caribbean Open Data Conference and Code Sprint (DevCa) is a multi-
  • Tourism Sector Study
    The Caribbean tourism sector can benefit from Open Data initiatives to bring value to the
  • Data Visualization in Review
    Report from an IDRC study that assesses the potential of data visualization to assist in
  • 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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