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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)

JUMPing toward a Digitally Inclusive Society

The Caribbean is abuzz with excitement!  JUMP, an initiative by Cable and Wireless Charitable Foundation (CWCF)  in collaboration with regional governments, private... read more
  • Women-Centred Disaster Resilience in Haiti
  • From Brainstorm to (Almost) Blastoff: Building ClearPath, an Accessible...
  • 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...

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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
  • 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

  • Building AI-Ready Communities: Meet the Global Cohort Transforming Data Practice with Open Data Editor
    ODE in action: A new cohort of pilot organisations will start testing ODE with new
  • ICTP 356: Data in the Caribbean and why our countries need a philosophy of data, with Alexis Santos
    Although data is considered the new oil, across the Caribbean region, it is becoming
  • Open Knowledge joins the OFA Symposium 2025 as content partner to amplify its vision and drive impact
    Originally published by OpenForum Europe The OpenForum Academy (OFA) is pleased to
  • Open Data Editor in Action: Empowering local government staff across municipalities in Nepal
    Open Knowledge Nepal was able to cut error-resolution time from weeks to hours and audit
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • 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
  • Data Capacity Building in the Global South
    Strengthening data capacity across civil society, governments, and the private sector in
  • Executive Summary Report The Caribbean Open Data Conference & Code Sprint - 2012
    Regional Executive Summary and Individual country reports for the The Caribbean Open Data
  • Impact 2.0: New mechanisms for linking research and policy
    This book features case studies and reports on the use of “web 2.0″ and social networking
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Regional and International Partners

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