As the capacity of the scholarly community to generate vast amounts of data has significantly increased, so has the need to share it and access it in a more open way.

Open data promote many core values, including increasing transparency and reproducibility of research findings, providing opportunities for reuse and aggregation to generate new insights, and increasing inclusion and justice of participation in the scientific process.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 MIT Prize for Open Data! We hope you’ll join us for Open Data @ MIT on Tuesday, October 20, to celebrate this year’s honorees.