Play five: Plan for impact when designing your data initiative

Consider the impact you want to create when planning to publish data openly

Defining the impact of the initiative – and the inputs, activities and outputs it needs to deliver to achieve that impact – will help you in designing a roadmap to address the problem you are trying to solve, and illustrate how and why your initiative is expected to bring about the desired change in its given context.

Example logic model for adopting a new open standard in the physical activity sector - OpenActive

Activities in this step include:

• Planning an impactful initiative

• Identifying the assumptions, external factors and consequences

• Sketching your evaluation framework

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

• Define the main activities and inputs needed to build or strengthen data infrastructure

• Design the outputs that will contribute to an impactful initiative