As alternative air mobility systems emerge, deconflicting airspace becomes more challenging. The Connected Places Catapult commissioned research to discover what data sources exist, or need to exist, to support airspace design and decision-support, while ensuring compliance with regulatory, environmental, safety and social obligations? To what extent are these data and infrastructure – data structure and device architecture – interoperable through metadata standards and appropriate legislation, and how compatible are their licenses for commercial and regulatory accessibility?
Spatial econometric data are critical for analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on business distribution and investment, and for support for post-pandemic reconstruction. Millions of people are working from home for the first time. Workplaces are, according to Google Mobility Trends, seeing 54% fewer people. The UK government was grappling with both the need for quarantine, and with the economic impact of that quarantine. They needed spatial economic insight.
The Global Health Network is seeking to customise their existing professional development (PDS) module to support the WHO. The objective is to permit the creation of a custom professional competencies structure to document the skills and abilities recorded by members of clinical trials / research teams.
London is full of unused spaces that could be used for temporary housing, workspaces, parks, community gardens and retail, otherwise known as meanwhile uses, but are not. Leaving sites empty is costly, and in a city where land is at a premium, meanwhile use can improve the development process and offer affordable space for the next generation of entrepreneurs, artists and activists to emerge and experiment.
The Government of the Republic of Ghana has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the eTransform Ghana Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for Open Data Platform Development for Ghana.
Mauritius' National Computer Board wanted to procure and implement a comprehensive training and support programme to ensure the successful implementation of their national open data portal.