Access to the right data is vital in tackling the big challenges we face - from the earlier detection and treatment of disease to reducing pollution in urban spaces.
Data institutions are organisations that steward data on behalf of others, often towards public, educational or charitable aims, and already exist across the private, public and third sectors. They take many forms and do a number of different things in practice.
At the ODI, we’re conscious that are further examples of impactful data institutions worldwide that we are yet to come across. In this session, we would like the MozFest community to help us crowdsource data institutions, and discuss the role they play and the lessons we can learn from them.
We’ll use collaborative editing tools to document and annotate the examples, and publish it openly to ensure others can engage and contribute.
Goals for this session:
- Share and reflect on the concept of data institutions with the MozFest community.
- Crowdsource examples of data institutions in different sectors, regions and domains, and question what we and others can learn from them.
- Connect with the Mozilla Data Futures Lab, who share a similar interest to us in new forms of data governance and stewardship.
The session is flexible to the number of participants. The more people in the session, the richer the number and variety of examples of data institutions we can identify and discuss. However, if there are only a handful of attendees, then we can spend more time discussing each in turn - leading to a deeper discussion of fewer examples, rather than a broader discussion of many.
We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:In order to continue the work from our session, we will invite people to engage with the ODI via our website and newsletters, Twitter and invite direct further engagement with the data institutions team.
Jack is Programme Lead for Data Institutions at the ODI, responsible for the strategic direction of the ODI’s work around data stewardship, and building partnerships with other organisations.
