This guide describes the key features or processes of an identifier scheme – the tool, its governance (including how identifiers are assigned) and use This guide describes the key features or ...

Join Data Ethics Professional Jesslyn Dymond, as she explore the role of data ethics for organisations in the age of AI. In today’s AI landscape, trust isn’t optional: it’s the factor that determines ...

The data ethics maturity model is a tool for anyone who collects, uses and shares data. It helps assess and benchmark how widely embedded data ethics culture and practices are across your organisation ...

This report aims to map the UK government’s activity on ‘data literacy’, as part of the ODI’s work supporting the development of the UK’s data economy The UK government recognises the importance of ...

Geospatial data is about places. It might be about a specific building, a river or other natural feature, or a broader location like a city or country. This report summarises the desk research carried ...

Synthetic data has been gaining traction in recent years as a means by which to increase the availability of data that, while deemed valuable, may be sensitive in nature and/or in limited supply. It ...

Could ‘data trusts’ help to increase data sharing while retaining trust from both people and organisations? We’ve been researching and piloting the impacts of ‘data trusts’ in the real world Could ...

Read our submission to the UK National Data Library: Technical White Paper Challenge, initiated by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council. In January 2025, the UK Government and Matt ...

With the support of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, our continued work in this area will help bring about new, and improve existing, ways for data to be stewarded responsibly for positive social, ...

This paper explores how open data can be used in public service delivery and its potential for collaboration, joint problem-solving and open innovation. It highlights where open data has been released ...

Programme Lead for Data Institutions, Jack Hardinges, discusses the ODI’s ongoing work to test data trusts as an approach to stewarding data, and some of the recent developments in the field To ...

In this report, we place responsible data amongst other concepts which describe how data should be used. From our research we then develop an interpretation of responsible data stewardship to use in ...