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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 three: Assess the policy, regulatory and ethical context

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This section will help you identify and understand important aspects of the wider context that impact the access, use and sharing of data by your initiative. The key question you want to answer here is whether the policies and rules around data are conducive to building the data infrastructure you need to tackle the problem you have identified.

Activities in this section include:

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

  • Inform your theory of change based on the policy and ethics landscape

  • Plan any additional actions to comply with regulations

  • Address or mitigate any negative ethical consequence that the initiative might not have considered

Understanding the legal, regulatory and policy context of the initiative
Understanding the ethical issues that might impact the initiative