Big Data Sandbox Options for a Sustainable Future

Diversity of options - we may see faster progress through competing configurations.

Political inevitability - national and regional sandboxes are likely to be created anyway, so we should anticipate this and prepare accordingly.

The major disadvantages of such a network, compared with a single sandbox, are:

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  Cost - for any given number of participants, multiple sandboxes would cost more (some duplicated fixed cost, duplicated data storage and duplicated administration - although lower human resource costs in some regions may partially offset this).
  
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  Complexity - for a relatively small number of participants, would increase organisational overhead (although with enough participants it may reduce it).
  
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