The Open Data Institute, London, UK, opens this week. Today is ‘open house’ from 4pm - 6pm. To visit: Email required.

Address: 65 Clifton St, Shoreditch, London Borough of Hackney, EC2A, UK. 

The organisation has some pretty weighty founders, father of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, created it to be independent, non-profit and non-partisan. So far the ODI has nailed down £10 million ($16m+ USD) over five years from the UK government via the Technology Strategy Board, which invests in tech research and development, and a further $750,000 from Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm. The organisation is also working toward long-term sustainability through match funding and direct revenue.

Read more here and here.