Data Standards

Governance lessons from the UK-US PETs Pilot for cancer research

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This picture is made up of 9 images in rows of 3. Each row shows a different image of a pill bottle spilling out pills onto a plain surface, on yellow or white backgrounds. On one side, the image is an original photograph. The next two iterations show it getting represented in progressively larger blocks of colour.

The UK-US Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) pilot demonstrates how privacy-by-design can be applied to international data sharing and provides a concrete model for future PETs projects across government. In this blog, we reflect on the governance lessons from the pilot.

Making the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS) mandatory across government

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Bounding boxes are commonly used in AI research to signify where a computer vision algorithm has detected an object in an image. Here the artist has played with this aesthetic: The bounding boxes are 3D-printed frames positioned in the physical environment around objects. Sometimes the objects stick out of their frame.

The use of the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS) became mandatory for central government in 2024. Read about how the GDS Data and AI ethics team have rolled out the mandate across government and how they have updated the ATRS to reflect learnings from this process.

Using a federated model for API discovery in government

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API data for a GOV.UK page

The CDDO Data Standards Authority are working on the discovery of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) within and between different government departments and agencies. APIs are a great way to share data as and when it’s needed using agreed open formats, rather than copying and duplicating data in different places. 

Comparing ethnicity data for different countries

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The Race Disparity Unit at the Cabinet Office Equalities Hub have analysed different approaches taken by national governments to understanding how they compare on issues such as ethnic diversity and cultural identity.