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3 minutes ago, Tom Hughes said:
@Mark Birkin you mention the UK Geospatial Strategy and you highlight part of the mission is to enable innovation. Earlier in this series we had a talk from @Neil from the Geospatial Commission looking at the pilot phase of the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR). Part of Neil’s talk looked at the data sharing processes between data owners and NUAR as well as how the data is shared with NUAR users using a security minded approach developed using a focused set of high value use cases. In the future Neil anticipates a consumer API for NUAR although the use cases for this are still active areas of development. Do you anticipate similar levels of innovation in relation to demographic digital twins, and in your view how important is establishing the right use cases for getting value from demographic simulation and what if planning?
That sounds interesting, I must check out that talk! I was involved in something similar a couple of years ago around healthy lifestyles (“Obesity Strategic Network”) working with international partners to articulate problems, opportunities, approaches (and data!) with contributions from government, local health agencies, and business organisations. Completely agree the importance of involving both data owners and problem owners (generally the same people I suppose!) in articulating the problems and solutions, and also the value of case studies. Very much our approach in the Bradford examples I mentioned earlier where a very wide range of organisations have been involved in the design process. Again, I think an important value-add from the Turing here is opening doors throughout government but also varied business organisations to get to these Use Cases – but completely agree this is a priority and there is always more that could be done.