A new stimulus fund of £150,000, announced by the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Lloyd’s Register Foundation, is calling for projects that will increase access to data and drive innovation in the engineering sector. Up to six projects can benefit from the fund.
Leigh Dodds, Engineering for the Public Good project lead and director of advisory at the ODI told DataIQ that they are looking for people from public or private organisations of any size to submit ideas on areas such as safety at sea, safety of food, safety in the workplace and digital systems. He said: “They could be projects that are exploring ways to share data between organisations so that it can be used in new ways. It could be looking at improving data literacy or skills within part of the engineering and construction sector or within a group of organisations or perhaps piloting some of these new approaches to stewarding and managing data, or maybe scoping what a data trust might look like for some type of data.”
The manifesto Dodds refers to identifies a set of principles and recommendations to help improve the safety of built infrastructure by increasing access to data and driving innovation in the engineering sector.
In summary, the manifesto is “recognising that data is a new form of infrastructure and that to get the most out of that infrastructure we need to plan for it, maintain it and operate it in ways that create value for the public,” according to Dodds. The manifesto has been endorsed by a host of organisations including the Health and Safety Executive, Energy Systems Catapult, Royal Academy of Engineering, Mott MacDonald and Tideway.
The nine-point manifesto calls for the recognition of the following principles.
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