Evaluation of Datawise London

Superhighways worked with Collaborate CIC, learning partner in the Cornerstone programme, to independently evaluate our five year programme

Datawise London, a 6-year partnership programme led by Superhighways, involved London Plus, HEAR Network, Coalition for Efficiency, DataKind UK, the Greater London Authority (GLA) and Makerble.

Partners supported small civil society organisations (CSOs) in London to better use data to shape services and influence change, resulting in better outcomes for Londoners.

The programme received support under rounds one and two of the Cornerstone Fund, a systems change fund for civil society infrastructure organisations led by City Bridge Foundation and running from 2019 to 2025. 

It worked at scale as well as depth, reaching hundreds of charities and community organisations across the city, involving many infrastructure bodies and funders and touching every London Borough.

Superhighways has commissioned an evaluation to support the capturing of learning as the programme reaches its end. To gauge the direct impacts and ripple effects of activities, the cross-cutting question guiding the evaluation became:

How has Datawise London contributed to democratising data access and use in civil society and the public sector?  

This evaluation answers that question, charting the legacy of the programme from three points of view:

  1. individual and peer-to-peer data capabilities
  2. organisational and sector data collection
  3. sharing and use, and civil society sector data infrastructure.

The evaluation will be published on 13 October.

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Superhighways, part of Kingston Voluntary Action, is one of only a small number of projects in London to receive funding from the Cornerstone Fund.

This multi-funder initiative tested how civil society infrastructure could be jointly funded in London applying a systems change approach.

We are grateful to City Bridge Foundation, the funding arm of The City of London Corporation’s charity, Bridge House Estates, who funded this work from 2019 to 2025.