CINITDIEN - Championing INnovation In The DIgital ENvironment

数字经济已经成为英国经济的重要组成部分，在不久的将来，这种重要性将会增加。英国政府已经认识到数字经济的重要性，支持了许多活动和倡议。利用数字环境的潜力将确保NERC科学，利用NERC在数字和传感器基础设施方面的大量投资，成为解决方案驱动型，不仅对传统的影响利益相关者（如政策制定者和实施机构（如Defra， EA, Natural England））产生影响，而且还参与和利用相当多的工业知识来共同开发这些解决方案。我们认为，行业参与对于开发数字解决方案也至关重要，这些解决方案将更广泛地提供给广泛的用户，从地方议会到自然伙伴关系，以及学术界、政策和机构中的科学界。环境数字科学界的太多努力和解决方案都是由科学界为科学界开发的，只有有限的政策相关性，但这些工具在现实世界中没有真正的实用出路。该项目和数字环境冠军的地位不仅是一个机会，可以改变NERC和英国科学和政策社区如何使用、互动和受益于传感器网络数据产生的知识和理解，结合模型和数据科学工具，还可以改变更广泛的社区如何参与并从这项重大投资中受益。所述方案将涉及多个数字平台和倡议，以确保活跃在数字环境中的各个社区的广泛参与，从数学家和统计学家到建模师、数据科学家、软件工程师和传感器专家。它还将以解决方案为重点，以解决方案为驱动，参与当前的政策挑战，同时确保所设想的解决方案对广泛的最终用户有用，从政策制定到实施，从学术追求到环境商业部门。

The Digital Economy already represents a substantive part of the UK economy, and this importance will increase over the immediate future. The UK Government has recognised the importance of the Digital Economy, supporting numerous activities and initiatives. Harnessing the potential of the Digital Environment will ensure that NERC science, capitalising on the substantial NERC investments in digital and sensor infrastructure, becomes solution-driven, delivering impact not only to traditional impact stakeholders such as policymakers and implementation bodies (e.g. Defra, EA, Natural England) but also engaging and leveraging considerable industrial know-how to co-develop these solutions. Industry engagement is also critical, in our view, to develop the digital solutions that will become more widely available to a wide range of users, from local councils, to nature partnerships, as well as to the science community in academe, policy and agencies. Too many efforts and solutions in the environmental digital science community are developed by the scientific community for the scientific community, having only a limited policy relevance, but with no real practical outlet for these tools in the real world.The programme, and position of Digital Environment Champion is an opportunity to change not only how NERC and UK science and policy community use, interact with and benefit from the knowledge and understanding that comes from data arising from sensor networks, combined with models and data science tools, but also how the wider community engages with, and benefits from this substantial investment.The programme as described would draw across a number of digital platforms and initiatives to ensure a wide participation of the various communities active in the Digital Environment, from mathematicians and statisticians, to modellers, data scientists, software engineers and sensor specialists. It would also be solution-focused, and solution-driven, engaging with current policy challenges but whilst ensuring that the solutions envisioned prove useful to a wide range of end-users, from policy development to implementation, from academic pursuit to the environmental commercial sector.