Smart Data Innovation Guidebook ALPHA
  • Smart Data Innovation Guidebook
    • Introduction
    • What is this guidebook for?
    • Who is this guidebook for?
    • Guidebook Status
  • Key highlights and recommendations
  • Data Infrastructure
    • Data assets
    • Standards
    • Technologies
    • Policies and guidance
    • Organisations and communities
  • Smart Data Schemes
    • Open Banking
    • Open Finance
    • Open Communications
    • Open Energy
  • Innovation Progamme Inventory
    • Innovation Programme Inventory
    • Digital Sandbox
    • Open Banking
    • OpenActive
    • Data Pitch
    • Modernising Energy Data
  • Roadmap
    • Roadmap introduction
    • Building the ecosystem
      • Research the landscape
      • Convene the stakeholders
      • Assess the needs
    • Growing the ecosystem
      • Test and develop
      • Scale the initiative
    • Evolving the ecosystem
    • Conclusion
  • Appendix
    • Glossary
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is made up of data assets, standards, technologies, policies and the organisations that steward and contribute to them - think of assets like datasets published by the Office for National Statistics, standards like those in Open Banking, or policies like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK GDPR.

Data infrastructure powers innovation in many critical aspects of society, from healthcare services and financial investments to public works and combatting climate change. is reliable, secure, and available to those that need it.

Smart Data innovation requires government, industry and civil society to build strong data infrastructure, which should underpin an open and trustworthy data ecosystem that allows for data to be easily used for creating new products and services. Smart Data schemes can build this infrastructure across any of the following areas identified by the ODI:

For more information on Data Infrastructure, see the video below:

Data infrastructure
Strong data infrastructure
Data assets
Standards
Technologies
Policies and guidance
Organisations and communities
Data is infrastructure, ODI, 2018, YouTube