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The National Digital Twin aims to create a translation mechanism called the Information Management Framework.This won’t be a massive data store sitting in the cloud.

Instead, it’s a federated system allowing different parties to find and use data from other sources, and to check whether they’re allowed to do so..However, certain problems remain.The first is that someone might not be sure whether the data they’re looking for even exists, and the second involves the requirements under which the data was gathered.

It’s important to understand any inconsistencies there might be in the collection of data, because without understanding those types of quirks and failings, it’s hard to know how useful the data might be.Additionally, the further the data gets from its intended use, the less useful it is.

This is why digitising planning makes quite a good use case because, in theory, it’s a linear process..

The next issue with data is governance, and the question of whether someone is allowed to share particular data.We’re interested now in doing new and better things.

We’re starting to ask different questions.How do we drive better performance?

How do we increase value and deliver those broader outcomes?How do we work with industry, academia and the business community to deliver results?.