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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

  • Organizer Promises “Groundbreaking” Haiti Tech Conference
    The Haiti Tech Summit is a 13-year initiative of the Global Startup Ecosystem (GSE)- which hosts the world’s first and largest online digital accelerator across 7 global regions-...
  • Girls ‘hack’ for empowerment
    On April 27 as we prepare to celebrate the International Telecommunications Union’s ‘Girls in ICT Day’, girls and young women across three Caribbean islands are being...
  • Playing digital catch-up: Finding opportunities for Haiti
    Haiti is behind the rest of the world in the digital revolution. Internet coverage remains limited and expensive. Just four percent of households have access, and fewer than 1% of Haitians have...
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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

  • ICTP 377: Rebuilding a country’s telecoms and ICT infrastructure bigger and better after a disaster, with Craig Nesty and Sylvester Cadette
    In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which devastated Jamaica in October 2025, the current
  • Open Data Editor Recognised as a Digital Public Good
    This recognition affirms ODE’s contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development
  • Open Data and ODE in Bangladesh: Students and Researchers Step into a New World of Openness
    During our ODE workshop, many participants had an eye-opening moment. At first, some didn
  • Open Data Editor in Action: Bridging the Gap Between Field Data and Research Insights in Ghana
    Open Science Community Ghana (OSCG) was able to streamline its work with agricultural
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • DevCA-CMIP Instructions
  • Towards a Caribbean Open Institute: Data, Communications and Impact
    The workshop, “Towards a Caribbean Open Institute: Data, Communications and Impact”, was
  • DevCA2013 - Open Data Conference and Code Sprint
    The Developing the Caribbean Open Data Conference and Code Sprint (DevCa) is a multi-
  • Open Agricultural Data in Jamaica – Caribbean Knowledge Economy
    This project was conceptualized with the basic objectives of: a) Exploring the
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Regional and International Partners

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