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Demographic Twins for ‘What if?’ Scenario Planning
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5 minutes ago, Steven Zhang said:
Hi @Mark Birkin , thanks for the informative and yet high-level pesentation about the Digital Twin for UK population. I am gald to hear that real-time analaysis is on top of your list. Compared to real-time data, the census data has been a traditional source of social-demographic information. Can you see any oppotunity in the upcoming 2021 census? Especially, the application of more and more administrative data based census., which sits between the snapshot data and real-time data.
Hi Steven, Yes, as I am sure you are aware there has been a lot of discussion about beefing up the census from other sources including both administrative and commercial data, for example with the census providing a ‘population spine’ to which other things can be added. I clearly remember these discussions following the last census (2011) and if anything I would say things have progressed rather more slowly than I would have liked and expected. We may have to wait until 2031 for some real innovation here! Again, privacy and conflicting (commercial) interests big issues here, as well as biases in non-census data sets. But I do think covid is opening people’s eyes to the need for data which are both continuously updatable and greater breadth of coverage (e.g. in relation to behaviour, consumption, attitudes) than we get in the census.
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@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?
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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.
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55 minutes ago, Richard Bradley said:
Hi Tom, what I think we do poorly is maximising the benefits of sharing. First we need an environment for sharing, which CDBB could enable. The key role that is missing for me is the Admin / Integrator role, which is similar to say an open data source platform (e.g. QGIS) and someone writes an add-in and the Admin / Integrator merges this into the core code. With the way we are silo’d, especially deeper into programmes and projects, there is no one organisation motivated for this role and so we can’t maximise the benefits of sharing. Could this be a role for CDBB as part of the DG core functionality around populations? Thanks Richard
@Richard Bradley I agree with you. Maximising the benefits of shaing is essential to delivering the National Digital Twin programme’s vision of an ecosystem of digital twins that are capable of delivering sustainable benefits for society, the environment and the ecomony. This twin talk series has brought together leaders to provide different perspectives on the interconnection of digital twins along side leading work in this space. The pathway to an Information Managment Framework puts forward the approach to realising this vision through the development of a common Foundation Data Model, Referece Data Library, and Integration Architecture. This is open for public consultation until the end of August and an excellent opportunity to provide feedback on the propsoed approach and role that CDBB could/should play in maximising the benefits of sharing. My personal view is a single organisaiton responsible for integration would face significant challanges in both capacity and capability. This could impact time to value and the ability to respond to the broad ranging challanges that Digital Twins may help to address. I think integration will be decentralised and driven by innovaiton. I think the role that CDBB will play is connecting this innovation with common principles and frameworks as well as alignment within the buit environment to create a positive selction pressure towards openness and away from closed systmes
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