Icebreaker One is bringing people together across Agriculture, the Built World, Energy, Transport and Water to explore the challenges and opportunities faced in each sector, and to understand the data infrastructure that can help drive towards net zero.
In each case, our data infrastructure must address a wide range of issues related to data-sharing and transparency across value chains, networks, and beyond. Our SERI Programme is already engaged across Agriculture, Transport and the Built World which address the horizontals of insurance, finance and engineering.
Principles and practice for developing data infrastructure across sectors
Across sectors, the challenges for public and private sector organisations in developing a shared-data strategy include common design patterns.
Similar approaches are being undertaken in related sectors including banking, insurance, pensions, geospatial and health and we are building upon, learning from and engaging with those domains.
To explore this in practical terms, we are working with companies to develop climate-ready, climate-aware and climate-credible products and services. In doing so we are ‘shaking the tree’ to work out:
- what is already functional;
- where there is scope for order-of-magnitude improvement;
- where there is scope for transformational change.
We are building on existing frameworks such as Open Banking and considering the potential of new data types such as Earth Observation (e.g. 3-meter resolution, daily, whole earth) and Internet of Things (e.g. infrastructure that is instrumented with thousands of sensors).
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