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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

  • Preliminary agenda announced for the Open Technology Research Symposium 2026
    This year’s Symposium is guided by the theme “Shaping the Open Transition”. The program
  • New frontiers for open knowledge – OKFN Newsletter July 2026
    SkyCommons Observatory released, protecting our BrainCommons, a responsible AI chatbot,
  • [Webinar] Traceable AI for Public Data: An Open Model for Latin America
    Join OKFN and the UN Big Data Regional Hub to learn about our ongoing experiments
  • Governing the Brain Commons: Openness as Public Infrastructure
    A recap of the Brain Commons panel on the governance of neurotech and neural data The
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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-
  • Open Government Partnership, Open Data and FOI – A road map towards convergence
    A joint presentation made at the "Regional Conference on Freedom of Information Laws
  • Towards a Caribbean Open Institute: Data, Communications and Impact
    The workshop, “Towards a Caribbean Open Institute: Data, Communications and Impact”, was
  • Developing the Caribbean Brief - 2013
    The Caribbean Open Data Conference is a regional technology conference and code sprint,
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