Should the Government promote and regulate the role of spatial datainfrastructures in the digital transformation of relevant sectors for policyand decision making?It will have $2,500$ words maximum. Whilst the focus of the essay is likely to be spatial dataanalysis, the student may wish to focus on specific areas that are a type of applicationand$/$or technologies and$/$or a specific type of organisation. Choose an area you alreadyhave some familiarity with $($perhaps you are working in or regularly engage with$)$ orstrategically you would like to understand for your future research. The review should becritically evaluative, that is$,$ it should be critically framed, using the literature and otherresources, to bring together arguments that support and question what is going on$.$ In otherwords, just a description is not sufficient. The evaluative review should broadly include thefollowing sections:$2$ a half page abstract summarising the main points; with reference to the key literature, an introduction to the topic, its historical contextand why any particular application area, technologies and$/$or type of organisation waschosen; a short explanation of the approach $($methodology$)$ used to produce the review; a presentation of the main elements $($and their dynamics$)$ of the aspects that you arefocusing on together with a consideration of the pros and cons; a critical discussion of the relevant data ecology and impacts for spatial data analysisand on society; draw your conclusions and any hypotheses you may raise for further research; a list of references cited in the text according to the Harvard convention.