Policy Challenge Questions

8.1 The following section sets out a series of challenging questions in six key areas to start the debate. 

8.2 The six areas identified as presenting opportunities for change, creating both demand for data and supporting and enabling supply, are:

1. An enhanced right to data: how do we establish stronger rights for individuals, businesses and other actors to obtain, use and re-use data from public service providers?
2. Setting transparency standards: what would standards that support an enhanced right to data among public service providers look like?
3. Corporate and personal responsibility: how would public service providers be held to account for delivering Open Data through a clear governance and leadership framework at political, organisational and individual level?
4. Meaningful Open Data:  how should we ensure collection and publication of the most useful data, through an approach that enables public service providers to understand the value of the data they hold and helps the public at large know what data is collected?
5. Government sets the example: in what ways could we make the internal workings of government and the public sector as open as possible?
6. Innovation with Open Data: to what extent is there a role for government to stimulate enterprise and market making in the use of Open Data?

8.3 This document provides a high-level framework of the areas for consultation over the next three months. The Cabinet Office will review responses and firm up proposals in a White Paper in the autumn with appropriate impact assessments. In some areas, the debate through this consultation will support other planned programmes of work such as the post-legislative scrutiny of FoIA.

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