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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

  • 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 Data Community Call November 2025
    At our last call we discussed the Zenodo Integration of the Data Package and an Action
  • Open Data Editor in Action: Interrogating Data for Investigative Journalism in Mexico
    ODE helped Data Crítica to quickly identify reliable variables for their data journalism
  • Announcement of strategic funding to enhance multilingual, sector-specific AI literacy and develop trustworthy AI for open data
    At the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), we are excited and grateful to announce an
  • [VIDEO] Meet Open Knowledge’s Digital Public Goods
    OKFN is the proud creator and one of the maintainers of two officially recognised digital
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Open Data Research
& Documents

  • Open Agricultural Data in Jamaica – Caribbean Knowledge Economy
    This project was conceptualized with the basic objectives of: a) Exploring the
  • Towards a Caribbean Open Institute: Data, Communications and Impact
    The workshop, “Towards a Caribbean Open Institute: Data, Communications and Impact”, was
  • Code-for-the-Caribbean - Guide to Launching Innovation Fellowships
    The popularity of innovation fellowships has never been greater.Around the globe,
  • 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
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