Our Data Coop -Intelligent Sharing for Community Benefit

Annemarie NaylorDirector

Context: Digital Assets

Telecommunication Networks

Hardware – network devices

Hardware – end-user devices

Data - “…the new gold”?

The Challenge (i)The UK Government has concentrated almost exclusively upon the scope for

closer working between Higher Education Institutions and the private sector to

unlock the potential for greater efficiencies, improved outcomes and economic

growth harboured by personal, organisational and public open data. This has

driven significant investment into, for example, the midata initiative as well as

high profile health data sharing initiatives, and the work of the Connected Digital

Economy Catapult. It has also resulted in the establishment of the ‘What Works

Network’, the Justice Data Lab and Open Data Institute start-ups. With the

exception of modest investments on the part of NESTA and Nominet Trust,

policy makers and major funders have been all but silent when it comes

to working with community organisations to modernise and/or innovate

in the context of our increasingly data-driven society.

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The Challenge (ii)Government Policy – localism, open government, ‘what works’

Central Government Practice – opening public services, impact investment

Local Government Practice – evidence-based commissioning / payments and

‘better for less’

Regulators, Funders and Social Investors – (not) leading by example,

monitoring/reporting and data-driven (post hoc) investment; and

Practice amongst Community Organisations – beneficiary intelligence (data

capture systems, data protection, public sector end user licenses), experience

(annual reports, accounts, grant monitoring, contract reporting, campaigning

and fundraising databases), knowledge (what data would be helpful / is

available, where can it be accessed, how can it be requested),

understanding/expertise (how to analyse/interpret data), digital enterprise

(where to begin)…

The OpportunityA project to explore if and how data might be harnessed so that communities

are better placed to:-

(a) understand the costs/impact associated with different approaches to

service delivery;

(b) evidence ‘better for less’ or alternative service proposals to

commissioners; and

(c) influence evidence-based policy-making activities on the basis of robust

evidence.

From The Opportunity Agenda

http://www.opportunityagenda.org

hypothesis: it may be possible to establish data coops underpinned by a combination of personal, organisational and public open data - asset-locked vehicles founded upon conscious contribution and explicitly designed to deliver tangible social, economic and environmental benefits – so that they function as distributed ethical impact investment vehicles.

Data Coops – what they could do

Collect standard, interoperable data about activities, beneficiaries & impacts

Enable members to contribute data about their organisations, activities,

beneficiaries and impact - have it analysed, bench-marked and re-presented

to aid planning, service design, tender development and organisational

transformation

Enable members to draw upon data contributed by others and deploy it to

improve organisational processes, service design and implementation,

contract and investment readiness, tender development and competitiveness.

Establish vehicles mixing personal, organisational and public open data to

address persistent social, economic and environmental challenges and

attract investment as ‘ethical data-driven impact investment vehicles’.

Data Coops – how they might work

Members supported to collect and contribute data in a standardised manner;

Member beneficiaries given the option to contribute their data to a Data Coop;

Public open data cleaned and inputted to add value to a Data Coop,

interoperable data collated to be analysed, and organisations’ activities,

beneficiaries, impacts benchmarked.

The anonymisation and deployment of data by the Data Coop to attract

investment/contracts to tackle specific social, economic and environmental

purposes (agreed to in its Memorandum and Articles of Association / by

beneficiaries / in keeping with the Government’s licenses concerning

public open data use).

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Research (how you can help) -Definitions / Assumptions / Prototyping

Data, Information, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom - philosophical

Data Subjects, Controllers, Processors; Data Asset Locks; Governance; – juridical

Big, Open, Government, Private and Personal Data - politico-economic

Community Engagement, Use Case(s), Types + Sample Size, Aggregation +

Storage + Analysis, Security – technicalities

Approaches, opportunities and challenges attaching to data collection, analysis and

deployment; existing or related models; potential business models; and the level of

interest in “our data initiatives” amongst community organisations - practicalities

www.ourdata.coop

@ourdatacoop