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Gavin Starks, Baroness Martha Lane Fox, Martin Tisn, Neelie Kroes,
Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Richard Marsh, Rob Bryan, Roger Hampson,
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
ODI team and associates
Adam Hinchliff, Adam Sven Johnston, Adrian Philpott, Alexander Leon,
Alison Walters, Amanda Smith, Andrea Cox, Anna Scott, Anneza Pitsialis,
Benjamin Cave, Briony Phillips, Carl Rodrigues, Carlina George, Beth Cooper,
Clara Lewis, Daniel Appelquist, David Tarrant, Dawn Duhaney, Elizabeth Carolan,
Ellen Broad, Emeafa Doe, Emilia Kacprzak, Emily Vacher, Emma Galal,
Emma Thwaites, Emma Truswell, Fiona Smith, Gavin Starks, Georgia Phillips,
Hannah Attwood-Foulds, Hannah Redler, Iraia Monteagudo, Jack Hardinges,
Jade Croucher, James Smith, Jamie Fawcett, Jeni Tennison, Joe Packman,
Julie Freeman, Julie McMahon, Kateryna Onyiligwu, Kathryn Corrick,
Keren Bowman, Laura Davis, Laura Koesten, Leigh Dodds, Lewis Kille,
Louise Burke, Mandy Costello, Maria Demetriou, Mel Norman,
Orsorla De Marco, Patrice John-Baptiste, Patrik Wagner, Peter Wells,
Phil Lang, Rachel Leech, Richard Norris, Richard Stirling, Sam Pikesley,
Samantha Haines, Simon Bullmore, Simone Giles, Stefan Janusz, Steffica
Warwick, Stephanie Dunstan, Stuart Harrison, Sumika Sakanishi,
Thomas Tharakan, Tom Heath, Ulrich Atz, William Gerry
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Production by Laura Davis and Phil Lang
Illustrations by Deborah Allwright and Ian Dutnall
Editing by Anna Scott
Training
Workshops
Assets
ENERGY
CITIES
Burkina Faso used open data to achieve its first free and fair
election for nearly 30 years. Arup embraced ODI Startups to
build an innovative open supplier ecosystem. Syngenta opened
its product data and Defra committed to open up 8,000 datasets
by summer 2016.
To address confusion around the language of data, we created
a Data Spectrum and Data Lexicon (pp.10 13), and broadened
our work to span the whole spectrum, from closed to shared to
open, with a focus on treating data as infrastructure (p.14).
Open
Sensors
Open
Utility
Open
Corporates
AGRICULTURE
FINANCE
Highlights of 2015
Our first ODI Showcase
From developing data-driven support for mental health to
bringing citizen science to Parliament, we helped four projects
to achieve positive impacts with open data.
Value
unlocked
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Closed
Shared
Open
Data that is open: data that anyone can access, use and share.
For data to be considered open, it must:
be accessible, which usually means published on the Web
be available in a machine-readable format
have a licence that permits anyone to access, use and share
it commercially and non-commercially
Depending on the choices that we make as individuals or as
a society, different pieces of personal, commercial and
government data may be closed, shared or published openly.
This is shown in our Data Spectrum visualisation.
The Data Spectrum and Data Lexicon have been powerful tools
for debating and articulating how we collect, access and share
data. We will expand our Data Lexicon in 2016.
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People
reached
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Standardised
robust
network
If developed and used effectively, they will help deliver wideranging benefits to firms, customers and regulators alike.
This year we worked with partners across the finance sector to
explore how this can be achieved.
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21st-century banking in a
connected digital economy
Intelligent
personalised
banking
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product
data
Personal
or business
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Data as Culture
Our Data as Culture art programme engages artists to explore
the wide implications of the culture of open data, to challenge
our understanding of what data is and its impact on our lives.
ODI Associate Curator Hannah Redler selected Data
Anthropologies as Data as Cultures 201516 theme, which
places people at the centre of emerging data landscapes. For it we
commissioned our first artists in residence, Thomson & Craighead
and Natasha Caruana.
Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead explore how live networks
such as the Web change the way we understand the world around
us, through installations and online artworks.
Natasha Caruana uses her own experience to explore the
universal themes of love, fantasy and betrayal. Her primary
medium is photography but she also employs performance and
mixed media, drawing heavily on the Internet and social media.
During their residencies, the artists exhibited existing works and
researched open data for the first time. They will draw on this
research to create new works in 2016, supported using public
funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Also this year, ODI Art Associate Julie Freeman and CEO
Gavin Starks co-authored A concise taxonomy for describing
data as an art material with professors from Queen Mary,
University of London.
Julies live, animated artwork We Need Us commissioned by
the ODI with The Space featured at Northern arts centre The Lowry
and at Londons Somerset House flagship exhibition Big Bang
Data. It heads to the ArtScience Museum, Singapore, in 2016.
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ODI Services
ODI Services deliver our work with developing countries, our
support for startups in the UK and across Europe, and our
consulting and advisory work with governments and companies
around the world. 2015 offered many highlights.
Our Open Data Challenge Series engaged teams to generate
sustainable solutions to social challenges using open data.
For every 1 invested in it, 510 would be added back to the UK
economy over three years, according to PwC. Building on this, our
team helped judge Shanghais Open Data Applications challenge,
based on the same model.
We built an Open Data Maturity Model, and invited governments
and companies to assess their own open data maturity, track
their progress and set goals using the Open Data Pathway tool.
We helped Syngenta publish data openly, supporting them to
find new value in the data they held, forge new partnerships
with researchers, improve their business model and be more
transparent.
The Government of Malaysia joined us in a training partnership,
supporting its goal to become a centre for data analytics expertise
and data startups in South-East Asia.
We promoted the economic and social value of open data
to global audiences at events including the APEC forum, the
G20 forum, the International Open Data Conference, the Open
Government Partnership and the Commonwealth Business Forum.
The global appetite for learning about data and its potential is
enormous. Through ODI Services, we will continue to help people
and organisations worldwide to discover what data can do for
them in 2016.
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Global
network
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ODI Learning
The ODI Learning programme offers comprehensive data training.
We help anyone to understand data and explore how it can
be used through fun, accessible and interactive learning.
This year we grew the number of people we had trained to over
3,500, bringing ODI training to new places including Chile, Egypt
and Macedonia. We also assessed more trainers than in any
other year, raising our total to 48 ODI Registered Trainers
helping to ensure our global learning activities have a local voice.
We also introduced a Learning Associates badge to recognise
data experts in academia and business who deliver challenging
and informative lectures and seminars.
Facilitating anytime learning
We set ourselves an ambitious goal: to create learning for anyone
anywhere, anytime and to deliver skills people need in ways
they want. We developed new online courses and compiled
a data skills framework to guide the learning journey through
clear, simple steps.
Starting a global conversation
From creating online learning for the European Data Portal
to helping companies like Syngenta boost staff data skills and
shape a data strategy, we are committed to building the future
of data learning.
It is truly the best training I have ever received.
Antonio, Inter-American Development Bank
2015 courses:
Open Data in a Day | Open Data in Practice | Data Science | Smart Cities
Business Innovation | Finding Stories | Train the Trainer
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ODI Startups
The ODI Startup programmes support and promote open data
startups to help them to stimulate innovation, spur competition
and drive economic growth.
This year we welcomed many new startups to the ODI network,
within our challenge series and incubation programmes.
We reached 50+ incubated companies in total, who have
collectively employed 200+ people. Over the course of the year,
they generated 8m in sales and investments.
Our Open Data Challenge Series awarded startups cash prizes
for sustainable solutions to social challenges using open data.
ODI Startup Open Utility was awarded Startup of the year at
European Utility week, Demand Logic and 3D Repo won the
Cognicity Challenge, and OpenCorporates won an ODI Award.
The day we joined the ODI Startup programme there was also
an ODI Node gathering in the ODI office. We realised our trips
from Edinburgh would link us into a global hub for open data.
Callum Murray, Amiqus
The ODIs support helps us to build our reputation in the market.
The feedback and mentors it provides help us to drive our project
forward. Clemens Wass, openlaws
We launched the Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE),
with a consortium of six partners. Selected companies receive
up to 100K equity-free funding, training and expert advice from
business mentors throughout a six-month programme.
We also announced a strategic partnership with Malaysia, and
hosted two Malaysian startup delegations. We will expand our
startup programmes and integrate them with ODI themes in 2016.
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Evidence
Our evidence programme demonstrates just how widely open
data impacts our economy, society and environment.
In June we published Open data means business, which
identified 270 open data companies across the UK. We learned
that these companies were varied in size, age and sector,
with a combined annual turnover of over 92bn and more than
500k employees between them. The report highlighted that open
data was key to creating their products and services, including
geospatial, transport and environmental datasets.
Alongside our DaPaaS project partners, we highlighted the
impact that new open data publishing tools could have in tackling
real-world challenges facing society, from improving our
cities resilience to extreme weather events to reducing urban
air pollution.
We helped launch the Open Data Monitor platform on Open
Data Day 2015. The platform paints a rich picture of the state of
open data publishing across EU countries, providing monitoring,
analytics and visualisation tools.
As well as holding our first ODI Showcase, helping projects to
achieve positive impacts with open data (pp.44 46), we also told
the story of the Environment Agency on its journey to becoming
open by default: its transition, its challenges and how its open
data is used in diverse tools, applications and business.
In 2016 we will highlight larger companies and organisations
that use and publish open data, explore the economic value
of data infrastructure across the data spectrum and demonstrate
the impact of data across sectors.
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ODI Labs
ODI Labs mission is to evolve the state of the art in open
data by creating tools, techniques and standards for the
benefit of everyone.
This year we have continued to build tools that set standards for,
and help people publish, better quality open data:
Reaching over 150,000 Open Data Certificates
Helping organisations assess how well they publish data, with
an Open Data Maturity Model and online tool, in partnership
with the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Implementing the new W3C CSV on the Web recommendations
in CSVLint, our validator for CSV files
We have engaged in research projects:
Helping to allow easy, repeatable data transformation and
hosting by delivering DataGraft as part of the DaPaaS project
Identifying 173 European open data catalogues and working
out how to measure them as part of the OpenDataMonitor
research project
Shaping best practice around open data with the SharePSI
network 45 partners from 26 countries across Europe
And we have worked on concrete examples:
Proving that the UK can build an open data address file with
Open Addresses
Working to visualise live data from sensors on trains on the
Victoria line with London Underground
Open Data
Certificates
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ODI Showcase
The ODI Showcase commissioned four projects that
demonstrated a real difference to peoples lives using
open data. We supported each with up to 7,000, open data
expertise and access to our global network, between August
and September 2015.
Breathe Heathrow: democratising access to air quality
data to meet local needs
Breathe Heathrow shows how open data has the power to inform
decisions about the development of our transport infrastructure.
ODI Startup OpenSensors.io deployed a series of air quality
and noise sensors in residents gardens over a wide area around
Heathrow. By engaging the public in this way, their project
democratises the collection and publication of data that anyone
can access, use and share, bringing facts to a polarised debate
over current and projected environmental impact.
The project was raised at a parliamentary Environmental
Audit Committee hearing in relation to the lack of data on NOx
omissions collected by Heathrow Airport.
Plexus: data-driven support for mental health
Inspired by insights learnt from working with mental health charity
Mind, digital design studio M/A built Plexus, an online hub and
web app that pulls together open data from a range of sources.
These include data on healthcare services from Minds OpenHub
platform and NHS Choices, data on employee rights from
GOV.UK and Citizens Advice, and data on job opportunities and
advice from National Careers Service.
Plexus was designed to help people with mental health conditions
to access support, find routes back into employment and manage
their conditions at work.
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ODI Showcase
Saving commuters time
On average, a Londoner spends 18 months of their life travelling
to and from work. For commuters all across the country, travelling
to work often involves multiple stages, meaning a delay at any
stage could potentially be amplified as the journey progresses.
The Fasteroute team has built a Web app combining current
and historic train travel times, including arrivals and departures
at all stations on a route. With these, users can save time by
planning journeys by rail to use services that are more reliable,
and avoid risky connections that could be missed due to trains
that are often delayed.
Finding cleaner bathing water
To make the most of our rivers, lakes and seas, we need to know
about marine pollution and how safe the water is to swim in.
The move to publish open data on bathing water has been
very successful: many datasets have been published, updated
daily during the bathing season and used by a large range of
people from citizens and scientists to campaigners and local
authorities. Data specialists Epimorphics have investigated the
multitude of use cases of the Environment Agencys bathing
water quality data.
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Weve been
inspired not only
to use and benefit
from open data,
but to promote its
value to others.
Fasteroute, ODI Showcase
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ODI Awards
The ODI Awards celebrate innovation and excellence in open
data across the world. The 2015 winners were announced by
Sirs Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt on 9 July, in a ceremony
held at Bloombergs London office.
Open Data Business Award winner: OpenCorporates
OpenCorporates offers context to complex company activity
with the worlds largest open database of company information.
Open Data Innovation Award winner: Medicines for
Malaria Venture
MMV facilitates open-source development of antimalarial
medicine, releasing new drugs and compounds to aid the
research of medical professionals in developing countries.
Open Data Social Impact Award winner: BudgIT
BudgIT raises awareness on spending and budgets in Nigeria
through a portal featuring a breakdown of government spending.
Open Data Individual Champion Award winner:
Mo McRoberts
BBC Chief Technical Architect Mo McRoberts has developed
an open data platform for the BBC, including best-practices
and policies for open data across the broadcast industry.
Open Data Publisher Award winner: Greater London Authority
GLA has pioneered the release of local and regional government
open data in London, publishing 600 datasets with Open Data
Certificates and working with TfL to open up transport data.
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#LifeAtTheODI
The ODI family grew widely this year. Brilliant and diverse new
startups, nodes, members and teammates joined us on our
mission to connect, equip and inspire people around the
world to innovate with data.
As a team we have challenged ourselves to take on detailed
sector themes, host bigger and better events and bring our
services to thousands of people in countries far and wide.
We have lived our values expert, enabling and fearless
internally, taking time to tell each other what we are working on,
whether in our team-wide stand-up meetings each morning
or quarterly strategy days.
As individuals, many of us from across the team have challenged
ourselves to be coached and assessed as ODI Registered
Trainers, take on new roles, represent the ODI at events or learn
something new at our Friday lunchtime lectures.
What underpins our work is a shared passion for achieving our
mission, respect for one another along the way and, ultimately,
friendship.
Team offsites are as much about having fun together at the afterparties as they are refining our strategy. We focus our summit
as much around putting faces to names and bringing together
our global network, as showcasing ideas, products and services
to promote open innovation.
#LifeAtTheODI is stimulating, vibrant and fun, and we are
excited about what the coming year will bring.
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The dataverse
G E O S PAT I A L
T R A N S P O RT
HOUSING
P O P U L AT I O N
FINANCE
E D U C AT I O N
INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS
R E TA I L
M AT E R I A L S
A G R I C U LT U R E
ENVIRONMENT
POLICY
C U LT U R E
H E A LT H
Partners
Arup Group
arup.com
Thomson Reuters
thomsonreuters.com
Experian
experian.co.uk
Met Office
metoffice.gov.uk
Deutsche Bank
db.com
Syngenta
syngenta.com
Sponsors
NTT Data
nttdata.com/uk
Precise Media
ASI
theasi.co
bigdatapartnership.com
Black Swan
blackswan.com
BPE
bpei.co.uk
Bulmer Foundation
bulmerfoundation.org.uk
CABI
cabi.org
chunsik.org
Consolidata
consolidata.co.uk
precise.co.uk
Constructing Excellence
Agro-Know
agroknow.com
Analytical People
analytical-people.com
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constructingexcellence.org.uk
constructiontransparency.org
Deliver Change
changelondon.org
MyWave
ESI Limited
Esri
Newcastle University
GeoWise
NHS England
Nimble Learn
Nquiringminds Ltd
Groundsure
NUS
Guru Systems
Ocado Technology
Health Fabric
OpenDataSoft
iGeolise
Imin
Pivotal
Informed Solutions
IT as a Utility Network
Resurgence
ITO World
SAP
JISC
Schroders
Mapmechanics
Signal Noise
Singular Intelligence
Mime Consulting
emu-analytics.com
esinternational.com
esri.com
marinetraffic.com
getmap.eu
instantatlas.com
london.gov.uk
glasgow.gov.uk
groundsure.com
gurusystems.com
healthfabric.co.uk
hesa.ac.uk
igeolise.com
imin.co
informed.com
itutility.ac.uk
itoworld.com
jisc.ac.uk
allmapdata.com
metadatatechnology.com
mimeconsulting.co.uk
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mywave.me
nao.org.uk
networkedplanet.com
newcitizenship.org.uk
ncl.ac.uk
england.nhs.uk
nimblelearn.com
nquiringminds.com
nus.org.uk
ocadotechnology.com
ons.gov.uk
opendatasoft.com
global.oup.com/?cc=gb
pivotal.io
redbridge.gov.uk
resurgence.io
sap.com
schroders.com/global/home
signal-noise.co.uk
singularintelligence.com
spacesyntax.com
University of Edinburgh
Sport England
University of Essex
University of Greenwich
University of Oxford
Telefnica
Universities UK
universitiesuk.ac.uk
spendnetwork.com
sportengland.org
sunderland.gov.uk
data.surreycc.gov.uk
telefonica.com
ed.ac.uk/home
essex.ac.uk
gre.ac.uk
ox.ac.uk
ValueBase Healthcare
co-operative.coop
thevaluebase.com
Visceral Business
open.ac.uk
visceralbusiness.com
turnerandtownsend.com
University of Cambridge
cam.ac.uk
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ODI Bootcamp
(November 2015) Malaysian delegates
PHOTO: THE ODI
ODI Queensland
ODI Rio
ODI Riyadh
ODI Seoul
ODI Sheffield
ODI St Petersburg
ODI Toronto
ODI Trento
ODI Vienna
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Trainers trained
theodi.org/start-ups/amiqus
Imin
theodi.org/start-ups/imin
LandInsight
theodi.org/start-ups/landinsight
Openlaws
theodi.org/start-ups/openlaws
Senseye
ODINE Startups
Second cohort
DataPress
datapress.com
Farm Dog
farmdog.ag
OpenCorporates
opencorporates.com
theodi.org/start-ups/senseye
OpenResort
Third cohort
Plume Labs
Brightbook
theodi.org/start-ups/brightbook
Enian Ltd
theodi.org/start-ups/enian-ltd
Rabble
theodi.org/start-ups/rabble
RentSquare
theodi.org/start-ups/rentsquare
Thingful
theodi.org/start-ups/thingful
ViziCities
theodi.org/start-ups/vizicities
infamouslabs.net
plumelabs.com
RentSquare
rentsquare.io
RESC.Info
netage.nl
UniGraph
unigraph.rocks
First cohort
BikeCitizens
bikecitizens.net
CommoPrices
commoprices.com
Instats
instats.co
InSymbio
insymbio.com
Sickly
sickly.org
Thingful
thingful.net
Whythawk
whythawk.com
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INNOVATION
Table of illustrations
Illustrations by Deborah Allwright and Ian Dutnall
p.19 Open data for agriculture and nutrition
p.41 ODI Showcase winner Plexus offers mental health support
p.45 ODI Showcase winner Breathe Heathrow deploys air quality
sensors in residents gardens
p.49 Open elections Burkina Faso: real-time open results data
from polls to public platforms
Illustrations by Ian Dutnall
p.5 ODI Startups in the open development ecosystem.
p.23 Setting the Open Banking Standard: 21st-century banking
in a connected digital economy
p.61 The dataverse
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theodi.org/culture.
(Opposite: above and below) The First Person (2014),
London Wall (2010ongoing) Thomson & Craighead.
(This page) Married Man (20082009) Natasha Caruana.
PHOTOS: LEWIS BUSH
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