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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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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

  • 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
  • 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

  • Frictionless Summit: Review the recording and learn about the next steps for Frictionless Data
    On 28 March 2025, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) hosted a new iteration of The Tech
  • ICTP 353: Who is watching our data, AI hype or opportunity, and building smart islands
    In our May 2025 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community,
  • How Open Data Editor empowers our weapon watch network
    The coordinator of The Observatoire des armements reports on his experience piloting ODE
  • Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’
    Join the Open Knowledge Network in a roundtable to discuss the meaning of openness today
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • Developing the Caribbean Brief - 2013
    The Caribbean Open Data Conference is a regional technology conference and code sprint,
  • 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,
  • Fisheries and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Sector Study
    This scoping study was conducted within an overarching research project “Harnessing Open
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