In this policy brief, Dr Jeni Tennison discusses the Labour manifesto's plan to create a National Data Library (NDL); focusing on how sharing data with commercial organisations should return value for the public benefit.
A National Data Library (NDL) will be developed over the next few years; it was announced in the Labour manifesto and again in the recent AI Opportunities Action Plan and A Blueprint for modern digital government. Precisely what it looks like is yet to be seen. This policy brief is about what one particular feature of the initiative might (and should) look like, to satisfy public expectations about sharing data with commercial organisations, namely about how sharing data through the NDL should return value to the public.
Read the blog: What is a fair exchange for access to public data?
