New routes for Data Collaborations

New routes for Data Collaborations

The idea that “data is the new oil” has been thoroughly debunked in a number of places, most recently by John Naughton in the Guardian. The Open Data Institute always worked to correct this and have rightly emphasised the importance of treating data as infrastructure...
Scoping Out the Data Cargo Data Collaboration

Scoping Out the Data Cargo Data Collaboration

We’ve recently mentioned that we’re looking in detail at how data collaborations work in the context of the eCargo bike environmental sensor prototyping project, and now that both projects are underway we’re taking some time to outline what sort of outcomes we hope to...
Some Thoughts on the National Data Strategy

Some Thoughts on the National Data Strategy

So the UK now has a National Data Strategy which seems to be experiencing successive phases of consultation – something we welcome as the topic is developing quite fast.  There is an opportunity for interested parties to keep on contributing to the strategy, and...
Uncertain Times

Uncertain Times

Many organisations are probably currently filling your inboxes with details of what they are doing to mitigate the effects of the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) on their business continuity. It seems most of us are either directly affected – or know someone who...
TDP participates on the RISE programme

TDP participates on the RISE programme

At TDP we’re very focused on our role as a social enterprise – from providing solid ethical help to SMEs, to supporting environmental science and local institutions, we always seek to provide a positive impact with everything we do. Although this is very fulfilling we...