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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 four: Assess the existing data infrastructure

Summary of Play Four

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For your data access initiative to tackle a complex problem and achieve its intended impact, you need to build and maintain sustainable data infrastructure. This section provided tools and guidance on how to assess the existing data infrastructure by cataloguing available data assets and standards that might help you tackle the problem, and plan for acquiring the appropriate resources and skills.

At this stage, we suggest reviewing your data ecosystem stakeholders as well as the policy and ethics landscape, to see if additional engagement or research is required before proceeding with your initiative.

Additional resources:

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CABI and ODI (2021), ‘’

  • Future Cities Catapult (2018), ‘’

  • GovEx Labs (2019), ‘’

  • Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (2018), ‘’

  • Open Data Charter (2018), ‘’

  • ODI (2020), ‘’

  • World Resources Institute/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2021), ‘’

  • Nesta (2021), ‘’

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