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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 support organisations and communities

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Organisations are responsible for stewarding and creating governance around the data assets that are part of our data infrastructure. They are usually trying to create value for people from data, by providing services, products or decisions for communities. Organisations that govern and steward data infrastructure include governments, commercial and public organisations, third sector, and community and voluntary groups.

We usually talk about communities as being those who are impacted by decisions that are made by the organisations mentioned above, but many are actively involved as well, like the Wikipedia community of contributors who create, fund and maintain the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Communities might need to access, use or rely on data for a multitude of purposes. Communities could also be those that support organisations by contributing their expertise around data or by helping to collaboratively maintain a data asset, like a register.

Data access initiatives building, creating and supporting organisations and communities include:

  • – stakeholders from across the NHS have established a separate data institution – the Health Data Research Hub for Eye Health – to transform the way that eye diseases are diagnosed, treated and managed in the UK and elsewhere

  • – open data leaders within government from around the world join together as part of this community, to learn from each other and identify how open data can benefit their organisations and citizens

  • – Microsoft and the ODI are supporting 10 data collaborations, helping them explore the benefits of data and the new technologies it powers

INSIGHT
Open Data Leaders Network
Microsoft’s Open Data Campaign peer learning network