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Deborah Yates, Open Data National Lead, Environment Agency

Technology, innovation and data: helping us protect the environment and respond to flooding

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The technology revolution is also a data revolution!  In less than ten years there has been an explosion of new mobile devices, which has increased everyone’s capacity to consume data on the go. 

Why publish data, unless you want it to be used?

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About the authors: Lisa leads a team in implementing data governance and data quality, with a responsibility for developing, implementing and measuring the Environment Agency’s data maturity model. Deborah co-ordinates and leads work across the Environment Agency to embed an …

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