Our workshop for data-sharing synergies (23rd March 2007)

We asked: What is Data and how can we Locate Synergies in Systems that Share it?

Overview by the Envisioning Team?

The Team's Role and Purpose

• It works at the conceptual level
• It works with the 'bigger picture'
• it maps out strategies and tactics
• It imagines new possibilities for action
• It formulates policies for possible change
• It validates aims
• It is concerned with dreams and visions
• It observes and invents
• It evaluates existing purposes
• It looks critically at new domains

Tools used on the day

Resources used by the Envisioning team included -

• Storyboarding
• Mapping tools
• Constellations
• 'What-if' modelling/scenario-building

continuing questions for the group

• What are the purposes of different types of data?
• How could data become more valuable to us?
• What relationships evolve from 'new /current data' and 'new / current applications'?
• Where is the most valuable data (for both the 'present' and the 'future') to be found?
• How can we find it?

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