Acknowledgements

This playbook is the result of our ‘Data infrastructure for common challenges’ research and represents our desire to ‘work in the open’: to share what we have learned from many organisations and initiatives working in the data access landscape and collect external feedback on our insights and approach.

We would like to thank:

The project team at the ODI including Becky Ghani, Caley Dewhurst, Carrie Brindle, Deborah Yates, Diána Szász, Elea Himmelsbach, Emily Sinclair, Flor Serale, James Maddison, Jared Robert Keller, Jeni Tennison, Joe Massey, Josh D’Addario, Lucy Brett, Olivier Thereaux, Pauline L'Hénaff, Tim Hill, and Vicky Hallam, including our ex-colleagues Leigh Dodds, Miranda Marcus and Walter Brown, and the rest of the ODI organisation for their support.

Our research participants, including a variety of generous people from 360Giving, Action Against Age-related Macular Degeneration (AAAMD), BC First Nations Data Governance Initiative (BC FNDGI), The Broad Institute, Collections Trust, Connected Places Catapult, Consentua, Data Communications Company (DCC), Data61, Datasketch, DNV, Ecoinvent, Energy Systems Catapult, Etic Lab, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC), FUNDAPI, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), KN-I, Latin American Open Data Initiative (ILDA), Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Microsoft, ODI Leeds, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Open Climate Fix, Open Contracting Partnership, Open Data Charter, Open Data Manchester, Open Knowledge Foundation, openmod, The Organization of American States (OAS), Parkinson's UK, Rappi, Reath, Rolls-Royce, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), The Trust for the Americas, World Food Programme, and Your Dsposal.

Our research and development programme funders Innovate UK.

We used a variety of collaborative tools to create these outputs, including Gitbook, Google Docs Editors office suite, Kumu, Zoom and especially the World Wide Web created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.