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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

  • Haitian Female Entrepreneur Launches First Digital Accelerator In the Caribbean
    At just 28 years old, Ntim has received much recognition for tech achievements, which include establishing international vendor-to-consumer website Venedy, start-up company platform Global...
  • Girls Create Innovations to Address Social Issues
    Approximately 90 girls and young women from 15 high schools, universities and community colleges across Jamaica competed at the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) Girls in ICT ...
  • Steady but Slow – Open Data’s Progress in the Caribbean
    According to the 2016  Global Open Data Index, progress in the Caribbean has been mixed,, based on an assessment of by ten countries—Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas,...
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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

  • Celebrating the Launch of the ‘Quality and Consistent Data with Open Data Editor’ Course – Join Our Webinar!
    OKFN is hosting a special online webinar where we’ll showcase the course, demonstrate ODE
  • How Open Data Editor helps us embrace FAIR data principles
    The senior advisor of the City of Zagreb reports on his experience piloting ODE: "It has
  • Why I am dedicating time to the CSTD Working Group on Data Governance and the 2025-2026 UN Working Group on Safeguards for Digital Public Infrastructure
    Photo: Lucas Pretti/OKFN As Chief Executive Officer of the Open Knowledge
  • Decoding the UN CSTD Working Group on Data Governance online series
    Join us in this online event to have an overview of the Multi-Stakeholder Working Group
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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-
  • Fisheries and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Sector Study
    This scoping study was conducted within an overarching research project “Harnessing Open
  • Open Government Data: A Catalyst for Jamaica’s Growth and Innovation Agenda
    This paper estimates the potential impact of Open Government Data on the Jamaican economy
  • Code-for-the-Caribbean - Design Research Initial Findings
    Presentation to RADA-CftC Fellowship Steering Committee to share design research early
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