What is data infrastructure?
Data such as statistics, maps and real-time sensor readings help us to make decisions, build services and gain insight. Data infrastructure will only become more vital as our populations grow and our economies and societies become ever more reliant on getting value from data.
Data infrastructure consists of data assets supported by people, processes and technology.
Trustworthy data infrastructure is sustainably funded and is directed to maximise data use and value, meeting society’s needs.
Data is as important as our road, railway and energy networks and should be treated as such.
We risk seeing data only as a tool for transparency, when it should also be an engine of efficiency and growth. We need to strengthen our data infrastructure.
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Blog, Reports 07/08/2016
Who owns our data infrastructure?
- Data infrastructure
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Guides 31/08/2016
Principles for strengthening our data infrastructure
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Transport
Projects
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Current project
R&D: Trustworthy data institutions
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Policy
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Current project
R&D: Sustainable data institutions
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Open standards and open APIs
- Policy
- Diana Szasz
- Leigh Dodds
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Current project
R&D: Data institutions
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Policy
- Jack Hardinges
- Jeni Tennison
- Richard Stirling
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Current project
Protected Characteristics in Practice
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Public service design
- Renate Samson
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Current project
Mapping the wide world of data sharing
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Jared Robert Keller
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Current project
R&D: Digital twins
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Cities
- Deborah Yates
- Fionntán O'Donnell
- Jared Robert Keller
- Miranda Marcus
- Olivier Thereaux
- Vicky Hallam
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Current project
R&D: Collaborative data maintenance
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Startups
- Leigh Dodds
- Miranda Marcus
- Vicky Hallam
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Current project
R&D: Can data trusts increase or help data sharing?
- Agriculture and food
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Search and discovery
- Cities
- Weather, energy and environment
- Miranda Marcus
- Vicky Hallam
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Previous project
R&D: Open standards for the UK energy sector
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Policy
- Weather, energy and environment
- Miranda Marcus
- Olivier Thereaux
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Current project
Data innovation for the UK: research and development
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Public service design
- Science and research
- Anna Scott
- Jeni Tennison
- Miranda Marcus
- Walter Brown
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Previous project
R&D: Predicting cause and effect of data strategies
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Miranda Marcus
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Previous project
R&D: Geospatial data and technology
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Deborah Yates
- Leigh Dodds
- Miranda Marcus
- Vicky Hallam
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Current project
R&D: Increasing access to data while retaining trust
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Public service design
- Skills and literacy
- Miranda Marcus
- Renate Samson
- Vicky Hallam
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Previous project
R&D: Enhancing data collaboration between the UK and France
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Peer networks
- Cities
- Transport
- Miranda Marcus
- Olivier Thereaux
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Previous project
R&D: Making it easier to create open standards for data
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Leigh Dodds
- Miranda Marcus
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Previous project, Startup programme
Growing open data startups for the government in Mexico
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Public service design
- Skills and literacy
- Startups
- Emma Truswell
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Previous project
Thomson Reuters' data services go open
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
- Open standards and open APIs
- Skills and literacy
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Previous project
Creating the UK’s first free and open address list
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Public service design
Latest blogs
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Blog 09/04/2020
What can we learn about international regulatory cooperation from the Global Financial Innovation Network?
- Policy
- Ben Snaith
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Blog 09/04/2020
Evolution of data requirements in international trade agreements
- Policy
- Walter Brown
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Blog 09/04/2020
About Data About Us: London and Berlin workshops, March 2020
- Data ethics and privacy
- Renate Samson
Services
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Service
Share data more easily and in a trustworthy way
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
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Become an ODI Member
- Agriculture and food
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Public service design
- Retail and consumer
- Skills and literacy
- Weather, energy and environment
- Hannah Foulds
- Julie McMahon
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Courses and training
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Peer networks
- Skills and literacy
- Alex Chandran
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- James Maddison
- Simon Bullmore
- Violeta Mezeklieva
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Consultancy & advice
- Agriculture and food
- Banking and finance
- Built environment and housing
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Humanitarian response
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Policy
- Public service design
- Retail and consumer
- Science and research
- Skills and literacy
- Transport
- Weather, energy and environment
- Ellen Broad
- Jack Hardinges
- Leigh Dodds
- Pauline L’Hénaff