Figure 13: Equity Opportunities
Governments need data to ensure current and future social services are delivered and built efficiently and effectively. For businesses, this could be everything from identifying the strategic geopolitical risk, to a consultant needing the data to undertake market research. For civil society, it means ensuring their activities have a real impact, such as for urban mobility programmes to develop sustainable agriculture guidelines. For individuals, it means everything from accessing historical data before they buy equipment, to students undertaking research. Although we live in an era of collaboration, constant exchange and co-creation, the perception still exists that the one who owns the access to information is in control. Clear data sovereignty that is validated by a tokenised-access can empower all users through direct and indirect engagement in which: •
data discovery is evidence-based and fulfils a recognised need for access to global, regional and local data sets
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user engagement brings data users and data providers into a peer-to-peer community conversation for sharing knowledge, data and feedback
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data policy uses and contributes to cooperative initiatives to harmonise data ontology, promote standards and the use of open data
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data literacy improves the capacity of users to use data for making a decision.
Benefits Part Three: Transparency Blockchain is the key to help simplify these conversations about supply chain transactions and embed transparency across the food system. The argument is that greater transparency of
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