Data literacy is a key enabler of the value and impact from data. How are you approaching this within your organisation?
Recognising the importance of a data-literate organisation, we are working to embed good data practices across the OU. This breaks down into three broad areas:
- We provide the tools, training, and skills necessary to the teams who use data day-to-day; be they analysts, engineers, or wider data specialists who in turn work with and present data to wider OU audiences. Our focus is primarily on getting this community to be as consistent in practice as possible, so that we can use them to drive out better and better practice;
- We support people across the whole of the OU to understand the basics and not to be afraid of data. By working in partnership with the security and protection teams, we aim to demystify compliance and legal jargon, and make it as easy as possible to use data;
- We are planning to develop wider awareness, training, and engagement processes that will enable people at all levels to be curious and confident with data and to improve their data literacy. We aim to do this by recognising that success will be dependent on the community of data specialists who they will turn to as their literacy improves.