Councils are at a crossroads. Globally, the data-driven economy is set to mushroom as a growth sector over the next few years, with the big data global economy growing at a compound annual rate of 40%.

In Demystifying Data, a new paper from the New Local Government Network, we argue that radical changes in both the availability of digitised data and our ability to use it offer local economies opportunities to grow, and councils the tools to radically transform their services.