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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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Play one: Explore the problem and how data can address it

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Successful data access initiatives are underpinned by a clearly defined vision that outlines the impact leaders want to achieve in a specific community, market or region. By improving access to data and involving stakeholders across the initiative’s activities, organisations leading these initiatives are better prepared to address complex challenges and produce desired outcomes. Exploring the role of data within the problem can help you achieve this impact.

Having a clearly defined problem to be addressed by improving access to data and tackling a specific social, environmental or economic challenge will help focus your activities, communicate your vision to funders, and mobilise the resources and people needed to build or strengthen data infrastructure.

Activities in this play include:

By the end of this section you should be able to:

  • Define how improving access to data can help address your problem

  • Identify what research needs to be undertaken in order to carry out other plays, such as stakeholder mapping and logic modelling

  • Decide the ‘use case’ and how it might be addressed through strengthening data infrastructure

Exploring how your identified problem can be addressed through data
Deciding what type of data infrastructure the initiative aims to support
Carrying out initial research and engagement