- Delivering a world class offer on access to data through Research Data Scotland, in particular to develop a commercial model acceptable to the public and data owners.
- Launch an employer, provider skills group to drive development of data skills offer across schools, further and higher education sectors.
- Develop a programme to foster adoption of data standards in local government to improve the quality, interoperability and availability of data at national level, focussing on non-personal data.
- Developing an AI Strategy for Scotland. This is in production and due to be launched in September.
- Working up a shared approach to telling Scotland’s Data Story as a way of securing inward investment. An initial round table meeting happened recently and approach with be formalised in the next few months.
- Reform of Information Governance. This is complex and ongoing through 2020.
- Review of privacy principles and ethics framework. This is being progressed, linked to the AI strategy.
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