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Icebreaker One is delighted once again to be partnering with Stream, which has been named as one of the winners of the third Water Breakthrough Challenge for the Implementation Phase of the programme, receiving £3.9m to unlock the potential of water data to benefit customers, society, and the environment.
Stream consists of a consortium of 16 water and professional services companies with Northumbrian Water as the lead organisation. It will put in place technology and processes to remove the barriers to opening up and sharing water company data. As governance advisory partner, Icebreaker One will be running advisory groups to convene stakeholders to collaborate on this programme. Stream’s vision is to co-create a Data Sharing and Open Data Framework to unlock water data for the benefit of customers, society, and the environment. Icebreaker One is now inviting expressions of interest for the below Advisory Groups which will take place during the remainder of 2023.
Advisory Groups
The purpose of the advisory groups is to provide expert input into the programme, to address commercial, non-commercial and public needs. It will deliver cross-industry alignment on the approach, including clear use cases, a roadmap of work, definitions of risk, gaps and opportunities, and it will provide recommended approaches and resolutions.
The Advisory Groups are as follows:
Advisory Group 1: Market and user needs
Purpose:
This group is to explore, prioritise and work through use cases that should be supported by Stream. This includes identifying defined users, their needs, mapping the data value chain and the broader ecosystem surrounding each use case.
The skills and expertise from participants will include:
- Identifying and defining user, market and societal needs
- Understanding market/ecosystem requirements and functional capabilities
- Articulating the consumer, market, societal and economic/financial benefits
- Understanding and quantifying the impact to business
- Understanding of the impact of Stream on UK policy
Advisory Group 2: Technical requirements and operating model
Purpose:
This group is to understand technical challenges and opportunities in accessing water data, including:
- Understanding the expected types of datasets and data transactions required for the selected use case(s)
- Compliance including from a data protection, competition law and EIRs perspective
- Understanding market needs for user authentication
- Data-best-practices, security, privacy-by-design
- Licensing
- A technical feasibility assessment of existing solutions and their suitability
- review of existing governance, legislation, contracts, legacy technology and existing processes and systems
- Understanding the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) risks and impacts
The skills and expertise from participants will include:
- Identifying and defining types of datasets and data transactions required for the selected use cases
- Technical understanding of compliance, including from a data protection, competition law, State Aid and EIRs perspective
- Understanding of the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) risks and impacts
- Understanding of the market needs for user authentication
- Understanding of data-best-practices, security, privacy-by-design
- Understanding of licensing
Advisory Group members will be asked to commit up to 6 hours per month. This includes attending the 2 hour Advisory Group meetings.