Thread by @ODIHQ

1/10 The UK government has published its response to the 250+ responses to the #NationalDataStrategy consultation! Let’s take a look… gov.uk/government/con…

2/10 Govt reports 3 general themes in the responses: ensuring the #NationalDataStrategy works for everyone in society, "Building Back Fairer" to spread benefits across the UK & “Building Back Greener” to use data to help achieve net zero. See our response theodi.org/project/the-uk…

3/10 “Building Back Greener” mentions a “Data Sustainability Charter” to be produced this year. We can’t find anything about this anywhere else

4/10 Sounds like some contention over govt’s role in Mission one: unlocking the value of data across the economy: convene? provide incentives? legislate for data sharing? The recent Frontier Economics report for DCMS discusses the options: gov.uk/government/pub…

5/10 No real surprises on Mission two: maintaining a pro-growth and trusted data regime. Respondents cautioned against weakening data protection standards; govt aims to capitalise on independence from the EU, but no details about what a new regime might actually look like yet

6/10 Mission three covers govt’s own use of data. Looks like there will be a govt Chief Data Officer installed in the Central Digital and Data Office, to provide professional leadership for the govt data community

7/10 Did you know that critical staff working in data centres were granted key worker status during the pandemic? Mission four highlights this as one of the ways govt is already ensuring the security and resilience of the infrastructure on which data use relies

8/10 The govt promises to announce priority countries for data adequacy agreements shortly, and highlights the G7 “Data Free Flows with Trust” roadmap, to meet Mission five: championing the international flow of data gov.uk/government/pub…

9/10 Implementation will prioritise monitoring, governance, evaluation and engagement, with a new cross-Whitehall #NationalDataStrategy Implementation Steering Group and a wider National Data Strategy Forum to help push things forward

10/10 You’ll also notice several mentions of @ODIHQ. UK govt is funding us this year, to work on data literacy, data assurance, data ecosystems and innovation, data institutions, and fundamental work building evidence and foresight. More on our plans later...