UKRN publishes a report into Infrastructure Data Sharing

13 Sep 2019 09:35 AM

UKRN publishes a report into Infrastructure Data Sharing, with a series of short and long-term recommendations for key decision-makers.

On 11 September 2019, the UK Regulators’ Network (UKRN) published a report on the state of infrastructure data sharing in the UK, aiming to identify how data sharing across the infrastructure industry can be enhanced to generate significant benefits for the UK’s digital economy.

Primarily, the report identified a series of significant barriers and challenges to data sharing, which ostensibly prevent the development of full digital transformation programmes around the UK. In particular, the report highlighted issues related to:

Acknowledging these obstacles, the report then outlines a number of long-term and short-term recommendations. The long-term recommendations suggested that:

In the short-term, the report indicates that:

If you would like any further information on the report, or are interested in the work that techUK is doing in this space, please don't hestiate to get in touch with the team, or email Tom.Henderson@techUK.org directly