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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

  • Establish the Caribbean School of Data
    Building sustainable open data infrastructures and enabling the effective use of Open
  • Towards a Data-Driven Agriculture Sector in Jamaica
    Over the last two years, the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, the SlashRoots
  • 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

  • The enduring value of open source in a data-driven world
    As data becomes one of the most valuable assets globally, the digital infrastructure that
  • Open Data Editor AI integration: breaking the input-output logic
    In collaboration with Patricio Del Boca This post discusses Open Knowledge
  • Beyond big tech: How and why Caribbean countries should be embracing sovereign AI
    Although Caribbean countries have embraced AI, it appears that little thought has been
  • ICTP 338: Boosting data-driven insights for Caribbean financial markets, with Raquel Seville of Dataffluent
    The Caribbean region ranks lowest in statistical performance compared to other regions,
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • Towards a Caribbean Open Institute: Data, Communications and Impact
    The workshop, “Towards a Caribbean Open Institute: Data, Communications and Impact”, was
  • Data Capacity Building in the Global South
    Strengthening data capacity across civil society, governments, and the private sector in
  • Code-for-the-Caribbean - Guide to Launching Innovation Fellowships
    The popularity of innovation fellowships has never been greater.Around the globe,
  • DevCA 2015 Conference Report
    The Developing the Caribbean Conference & Code Sprint is a product of a unique
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Regional and International Partners

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