Onwurah's idea is for a full data review should Labour get into power and finding a "people's data champion", someone who can look after the interests of the public and ensure people get ownership of their own data.
Labour's candidate for Newcastle Upon Tyne central, Chi Onwurah, also the architect of Labour's Digital Government Review is also sceptical of the CDO role but admits the country needs a "data champion" and "not a technocrat".
According to Toivonen, awarded with Open Data Champions, researchers should be aware of data sharing practices at an early stage.
It is also useful to gather support by establishing an RDM steering group and securing the input of lead researchers as data champions to help spread good practice to others.
In recent months, we have met data champions from all over the world, from the World Economic Forum Africa, to the Data Festival in Cartagena, Colombia, to the Health Measurement and Accountability Summit in Washington, DC.
Last year, the SPARC Europe library community awarded three researchers from the University of Helsinki - Tuuli Toivonen, Ari Asm and Mikko Tolonen - with the Open Data Champions award granted for the promotion of open research data (see also Flamma News ).
The US government is collaborating with data champions in other governments, in businesses and civil society to generate and deploy an comprehensive strategy to harness data for sustainable development, with a focus on three overarching objectives that can help unlock the truly transformative power of the data revolution.
As Jasper explained, successfully developing and applying data for development is very hard, so we must invest in creating partnerships and ecosystems that can connect such data champions and enable them to scale their successes – and for others to replicate or build on them further.
Based on this definition, we measured that €1.2 billion was invested in these 130 European "data champions" in 2014 and 2015.
I passionately disagreed with their call to "change consumer behavior" and "educate these consumers about using data". Champions of transparency, like self-insured employers, must respect people and their habits enough to meet them where they are.
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (Data4SDGs.org) is a growing network of more than 200 data champions working around the world to harness the data revolution for sustainable development, including governments, companies, civil society groups, international organizations, academic institutions, foundations, statistics agencies and data communities.
