Louise Corti of the UK Data Service gives an update on the latest developments with our Innovation Fund partners, four exciting projects to create an open data and crowdsourcing project to generate innovative apps, a library of interactive tools to allow users/owners to create their own infographics, a Risk Utility Management Tool designed to take the mystery out of how confidential data are anonymised and an open-source census data extraction and visualisation tool.
Four projects have been funded as part of the first rcs data malaysia round of the UK Data Service’s new Innovation Fund.
These projects successfully demonstrated that their pilot projects had the potential for new products or enhanced outcomes for the UK Data Service and have been awarded up to £150,000 to develop their innovation, ensuring that it becomes fully embedded and sustained within the UK Data Service.
I have coordinated the competition and the selection of and liaison with, successful projects.
It has been a real joy to have the opportunity to work more closely with colleagues from the commercial sector who have helped challenge our own assumptions about the potential uses of social science data outside academia.