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Read later Audio version Summary: The UK government’s rhetoric about data strategy and economic renewal can be compared with what is happening in the real world. (Image by www slon pics from Pixabay ) The UK launched its National Data Strategy last September, after more than two years of Brexit-inspired hiatus, bafflement, shoulder-shrugging, and pettifogging. Yet just a few months earlier in March, 2020 s Westminster eForum on UK data strategy had presented an alarming picture of rudderless government. At that event, Gaia Marcus, then UK Head of Data Strategy, said: We knew that we had the solution [the data strategy], but we weren t clear on the problem. So, back in the Middle Ages of this project, when the team was focusing on the work, I commissioned a call for evidence to actually understand that, if we ve all agreed that the national strategy is the solution to a problem, what actually is the problem? ....