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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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  1. Play five: Plan for impact when designing your data initiative

Summary of Play Five

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Defining the initiative’s goals in a logic model lets you pinpoint the different indicators that you can use to monitor outputs, outcomes and intended impact. This process can help you design a roadmap to tackle the problem, and highlight any assumptions, external factors, and ignored consequences that may be barriers to achieving results.

Once you complete this play, you can review and check:

  • if there are any actors or exchanges missing from your data ecosystem map

  • that your policy and ethical assessments account for the activities and assumptions underpinning your initiative

  • that you have enough of an understanding of the required data assets and skills for your initiative to achieve its desired impact.

Additional resources:

  • ODI (2020), ‘’

  • Created by Doteveryone (now hosted by the ODI), ‘’ toolkit

  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation (2004), ‘’

  • Keystone Accountability (2009), ‘’

  • UK Department for International Development (DFID): ‘’

  • NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (2016), ‘’

  • Tools4Dev, ‘’

  • ODI (2020), ‘’

  • ODI (2020), ‘’’

  • ODI (2021), ‘’

  • Center for Health Equity - Minnesota Department of Health, ‘’

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