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CKAN Upgrade December 10, 2024

As part of our servicer provider Datopian's commitment to ensuring the continued performance, security and long-term maintenance of OpenDataNI, they will be performing a major...

Launch of Open Data Innovation and Outreach Fund 2022-2023 December 5, 2022

It's that time of year again when the Open Data teams opens up our collection of data to data scientists, analysts and enthusiasts, to tech gurus, to students and anyone with a vested...

OpenDataNI site availability September 5, 2022

Right from its initial launch back in November 2015, OpenDataNI has been something of a steady rock in a sea of change, looking and functioning the same now as it did from day one. In all...

Department of Finance Departmental Spend Dataset Publication June 1, 2022

The Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2020 - 2023 commits the Northern Ireland Civil Service to greater transparency in fiscal matters. To that end the Open Data Team have been...

OpenDataNI Innovation and Outreach Fund 2021-2022 launch December 7, 2021

  OpenDataNI has just recently celebrated its 6th birthday, and in that time a lot has happened in open data here in Northern Ireland. From a starting point of 50 datasets or so, we...

Open Government Network - Open Local Government Workshops July 16, 2021

The Open Government Network NI are running a series of virtual workshops to help identify open government issues important to citizens and to ultimately improve local democracy and public...

OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund 2021 - Winners announced! May 7, 2021

Launched in December past, this year's OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund attracted a fine selection of applications, seeking to gain funding for projects and events focused on...

OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund 2021 - the tension builds.... April 2, 2021

  Following on from the success of last year's Innovation and Outreach Fund, keen OpenDataNI-watchers will know that the Fund was launched in December with entries closing on 4th...

Belfast City Council seeking innovative solutions to COVID-19 response April 28, 2020

  Belfast City Council is working with government, our universities, and the community & voluntary sectors to support a coordinated contribution by the digital innovator...

Coronavirus and open data April 16, 2020

  The demand for access to data to aid public understanding of governmental responses to the coronavirus pandemic has been notable across the world.   The Center for Systems...

OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund 2020 - And the winners are..... March 4, 2020

  A key strand of the Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2020-2023, the OpenDataNI Innovation and Outreach Fund aims to promote NI government Open Data re-use, stimulate...

OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund 2020 - One month until the closing date! January 7, 2020

  Keen OpenDataNI-watchers will already be aware that one of the key strands of the Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2020-2023 is the creation of a new Innovation &...

Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2020 - 2023 October 14, 2019

  Regular visitors to OpenDataNI (and our many followers on Twitter, too) will already have known that the new Open Data Strategy was on its way..... and now it has arrived!...

Open Data Strategy Launch event Monday 14th October September 13, 2019

  Open Data advocates in Northern Ireland will by now know that we have been working hard in recent months to refresh the Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland. To inform the...

Open Data Strategy 2020-2023 Launch August 9, 2019

The review process for the second Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland is almost complete. The Open Data Team are gearing up for a launch event to be held this autumn. Please consider...

Open Data Within The Wider Data Landscape August 8, 2019

As finishing touches are being applied to our new Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland, this work comes at a time when developments in information management and data, in both a...

Strategy Review Update! March 21, 2019

  The first Open Data Strategy was intended to run from 2015 to 2018, and whilst much of what was in the Strategy has been delivered, (including establishment of this very...

OpenDataNI Make-it Challenge Winners - The Grand Unveiling! May 11, 2018

  Another year of promoting the benefits of open data in Northern Ireland has come and gone, and with it, another OpenDataNI Challenge has reached a crescendo. Last year, we...

Northern Ireland developing into a hotbed of ‘Open Data’ December 12, 2017

From tiny acorns, mighty oaks grow, …. well, that’s very much the aim! Open Data can bring a great many benefits such as accountability, efficiency, enhanced research, and...

Reflections on Open Data Camp November 6, 2017

Over the weekend of 21st – 22nd October, the UK Open Data Camp bandwagon rolled into town and ‘pitch’ed up at Queen’s University Belfast’s Computer Science...

Open Data Make-It Challenge!!! October 2, 2017

    Following on from the success of our last Challenge competition (‘Using Open Data for Education’ – you can read more about the winners here), we’re...