If you have lots of data but somehow struggle to actually do anything useful with it, you probably have a data literacy problem. Everyone in your organisation needs to have some data literacy, and that doesn’t mean technical skills. Data literacy avoids wasted effort and the best way to spread it is by example.

For organisations and modern businesses the management of data and how they use it is becoming a critical part of that organisation’s success. This article explores what data governance really is and why it is important to get right.

Real world objects are often more complicated than simple databases really understand, and trying to fit those complications into the rigid type system of SQL is much like fitting a round peg into a square hole.

In the Internet era, the data problems we have are different. In this first in a series of posts, we’ll examine how the different ways that people create and use data today impacts how we must shape a data architecture.

Something is very wrong with personal data in Government. Citizens still submit their personal data using paper and pictures of letters, and services bear the burden of low-quality evidence. Why isn’t Government more joined up in it’s data sharing, what are the dangers, and how do we solve this problem once and for all?

Technical trust and legal trust are both insufficient by themselves to ensure protection of valuable data. Instead we need a vehicle that combines the two to allow data use to be auditable and acceptable practice to be enforcable. In this post we discuss this concept of a data trust, explore what benefits they could bring and how they could be achieved.