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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

Summary of Play One

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Defining if and how your identified problem can be addressed through improving data access is crucial to planning which data infrastructure your initiative needs to focus on, and finding the resources to develop it. It will also help you understand stakeholder needs, start engaging with the data ecosystem at a local level, and support you in scoping the impact and outcomes you want from your initiative.

You may need to return to this play and refine or adapt your problem statement as you take a deeper dive into the data landscape, or as changes occur, such as newly introduced legislation or newly available data assets.

Additional resources:

  • Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein (2020), ‘’

  • Open Data Institute (2020), ‘’

  • NYU GovLab, ‘’ and ‘’

  • Nesta/UNDP, ‘’

  • Global Integrity (2020), ‘’

  • The Engine Room (2014) ‘’

  • FabRiders (2018), ’

  • Mydatarights Africa/Mozilla, ‘’

  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, ‘’

  • Latin American Open Data Initiative/Hivos, (2020) ‘’

  • MyData (2019), ‘’

  • OD4D State of Open Data (2019), ‘’

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