 Mae'r Rhywbeth Rwylaeth Strydianol yn y ddataeth y bydd yn 180 ymddiad. Mae'n rhaid i'r ODI wedi bod yn ymddangos ar 3 ymddangos, ond rydyn ni'n meddwl ymddiad yma. Mae'r rhaid i'r ddweud o'r hwnnw, mae'r ddweud o'r agenda yma. Mae'r RSS ymddiad yma yn ymddiad yn y rhaid i'r hwnnw. Charles Booth wedi y rhaid i ddweud o'r prydysg, yn ymddangos, yn rhaid i ddweud o'r pethau, sydd wedi gweld yn Llywodraeth. Florence Nightingale was our first female fellow mapping how disease was spreading in hospitals in the Crimea. We've been thinking at the RSS about how can data help support prosperity, how can it help support democracy, and how can it help support better policy. Our answer was this, our little data manifesto. It's got 10 recommendations in it. I don't have time to take you through all of them in detail in the time that I've got, but I wanted to give you the headlines. If you drop me an email or tweet me, I'm very happy to send you a copy of it. Here we're talking about the full range of the data spectrum that has been described earlier. Let me pick up five key themes that really come out of the data manifesto. The first is to invest, to create and get the data that we need. This particularly means investing in science and research and development. As a country we're falling behind in this area at the moment compared to other countries. This is really the source of long-term prosperity. Good science does need to be open science. We're seeing an increasing problem about the reproducibility of science. If you actually rerun experiments, you're finding you can't get them to give the same results that you got the first time round. The data must be open and we must encourage people to reproduce the results of science. That's got to be the quid pro quo, but we've got to invest in the first place. Similarly, government data, if we're going to change the way that government takes its approach to learning about the world that we live in and the society we are, we need to invest in good quality statistics and data gathering. One example of that is the census. The government has committed to changing the way we do the census by 2031, going away from the old model which is gathering data once every 10 years to moving towards much more real-time data from your driving licence applications, from your GP records and so on. To make that switch we're going to have to have investment and a new way of thinking. The second is to open the data. I'm not going to say too much about that because you're already brought into this idea. Let me just pick out a few things which perhaps haven't been talked about so much. The first is private sector data. Private sector has got a critical role to play. When we talk about open data we're often talking about opening up government data, but actually the private sector is holding more and more important data which needs to be opened up. One of the areas the RSS has been campaigning is around pharmaceutical companies. We've been working with the All Trials Group which Ben Goldacre set up looking at can we make sure that pharmaceutical companies register their trials so that actually you know the results that you're getting from pharmaceutical trials are not skewed towards the positive. Every trial is registered and open. Similarly, as we're finding more and more private sector companies are delivering public services, we're not holding them necessarily to the same standards in terms of their accountability around data. So schools, hospitals, if it's a private sector company, our view is that they've got to be held to the same data standards as the public sector. One other thing I'd pick out which I haven't heard the open data community say enough about is the recent threat to the Freedom of Information Act that the government has set up a new FOI commission to review the freedom of information legislation. Hilariously, the FOI commission is not FOI-able itself. The first meeting that it gave, journalists had to redact various things because they couldn't even say who was giving the information to them. So this slightly Kafkaesque picture I think needs the open data community to intervene and show that open data sits side by side with freedom of information. So I've talked about investing to get the data, opening up the data. The third thing is that you've got to have the skills to analyse the data. So sometimes we, the data kind of geek community, forget that what people want is not data. They want answers. And actually to go from data to answers you need really good analytical statistical skills. We asked MPs if you toss a coin twice what are the chances of getting two heads in a row? And the answer of course is 25%. Only 40% of them could answer that question correctly. So, you know, these are the people that are having to make decisions at country level on our behalf all the time. And their data skills are not necessarily where they should be. So off the back of that, we ran a campaign in the run-up to the election. We asked our 6,000 members to write to their candidates and say, if you get elected, sorry these mics are getting in the way of my grandstanding, if you get elected, do you promise to take statistical training from the Royal Statistical Society? 300 candidates said yes, of them 55 got elected. And only a couple of weeks ago on World Statistics Day, yes such a thing exists, we held our first training session for a batch of MPs. And they were delighted because it wasn't about telling them this is what you're doing wrong. It was saying we need to inoculate you against the lobbyists and the bewildering numbers that you're going to come across. Most of you dropped maths at 16. Data is scary for you. Let's open that up and let's build your confidence. So it can't just be about MPs, we're trying to work with the policy community and we're working right the way through the school and education system and the university level as well. Data analytics is the future of our economy and of society and we've got to make sure we've got the skill base to inform that. The fourth area we've stressed is to actually use the bloody data to inform decision making and it's a scandal how little this happens. Government has made a couple of steps forward in this area. I think the what works centres which are actually bringing together the data that we have in particular areas and bringing them together with the policy making community has been a really positive step forward. But this is in only small areas so open data doesn't end with opening up the data. The next step is to then shove it in the people's faces and say what are you going to do with it? This is what the evidence tells us. Finally we need institutions to create trust. Every week in the news now we have talk talk, Ashley Madison, whatever it might be. Now these are not necessarily about open data but as we already know our personal data is very important to us. The scandal surrounding some of this and the concerns that people have around their privacy has the ability to actually bring down the open data agenda because in most people's minds these agendas are not separate and so we have to have robust institutional framework to give people the confidence. We did some research about a year and a half ago showing what we said was a data trust deficit. If you ask anybody how much they trust any institution and then how much they trust that institution with their personal data it's always lower. There is this gap around personal data which is critical and if we don't address that level of trust all of the wider initiatives that we have will scupper. That was a very quick grand tour but if you want to know more our data manifesto is on the RSS website. We are campaigning for a better society based on good use of data and I hope that if you are interested in an open body you don't have to be a statistician you just have to care about data so you would be very welcome to join us in our campaign and we work very closely with the ODI in taking all of this forward. Thank you very much.