Data Strategy Toolkit

Sample Data Standard
Quick Guide

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Sample Data Standard

The Data Standard helps city teams make decisions with data and supports the creation of great public services.

1. Understand users and their needs
2. Enable joined-up, real-time services
3. Support data-driven decision making
4. Collect the right data first time
5. Make it simple to find the right data
6. Data access, not data sharing
7. Use common identifiers, data standards and design patterns
8. Protect the safety, privacy and wellbeing of residents
9. Be transparent about how data is used
10. Custodianship and accountability are clear
11. Make sure data works for everybody
12. Work in multidisciplinary teams
13. Use agile and open ways of working
14. Define what success looks like and publish performance data
15. Choose the right tools and technology
16. Work in the open

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Sample Data Standard
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This data strategy was created by Open Cities Lab (OCL) as part of UK Foreign Commission Development Office (FCDO) funding.

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