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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 one: Explore the problem and how data can address it
  2. What type of data infrastructure does the initiative aim to create or maintain?

Build or improve technologies

PreviousCreate or adopt data standardsNextCreate guidelines and policies

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Technology is the part of data infrastructure that people are often the most familiar with. We usually think of technology as either hardware, such as a computer, or software, like the programmes we use on our computers. A ‘data technology’ is best described as any tool – hardware or software – that enables us to collect, access, use or share data more easily and effectively.

Data access initiatives building technologies to improve access to data include:

  • – volunteers create digital maps, software, tools and more to empower people to fight against unfair or unlawful personal circumstances around housing and eviction

  • – a variety of stakeholders enable Open Climate Fix to use machine learning approaches to solve challenges that will have a large climate impact

  • – stakeholders across London use this open data platform to find and share useful data about the city, in order to address organisational or city level challenges

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Open Climate Fix
London Datastore