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Data Infrastructure for Common Challenges
  • Data Landscape Playbook
    • Data Landscape Playbook: status
    • What is this playbook for?
    • Who is this playbook for?
  • Play one: Explore the problem and how data can address it
    • Define how improving access to data can help address your problem
    • What type of data infrastructure does the initiative aim to create or maintain?
      • Build or manage data assets
      • Create or adopt data standards
      • Build or improve technologies
      • Create guidelines and policies
      • Build or support organisations and communities
    • Carry out initial research and engagement
    • Summary of Play One
  • Play two: Map the data ecosystem
    • Engage with key stakeholders
    • Create an ecosystem map
    • Identify gaps, barriers and opportunities
    • Summary of Play Two
  • Play three: Assess the policy, regulatory and ethical context
    • Understand the legal, regulatory and policy context of the initiative
    • Understand the ethical issues impacting your initiative
    • Summary of Play Three
  • Play four: Assess the existing data infrastructure
    • Make a data inventory
    • Assess open standards for data
    • Assess data skills and literacies
    • Summary of Play Four
  • Play five: Plan for impact when designing your data initiative
    • Plan an impactful initiative
    • Identify risks, assumptions and dependencies
    • Sketch your evaluation framework
    • Summary of Play Five
  • What comes next?
  • Acknowledgements
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This playbook is the result of our ‘’ 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.

Data infrastructure for common challenges