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In an effort to effectively reach the initiative's objectives, the ITA has launched the 'Big Data Idea' to encourage the public to make use of this online data and to exploit the potential to generate new businesses and stimulate growth.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the country to accelerate implementation of big data strategy to better serve social and economic development and improve people's lives.

Efforts should be made to advance national big data strategy, improve digital infrastructure, promote integration and sharing of digital resources, and safeguard data security, Xi said during a collective study session of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee's Political Bureau on December 8.

Joseph Kambourakis, lead data, science instructor at EMC, conducted the program.

The participants were from universities such as King Fahd University of Petroleum, Ummul Qura, Taibah, Qassim, King Saud University and King Abdulaziz.

Speaking to over 240 public sector leaders at the 11th annual FutureGov Forum Singapore, Mohamad emphasised the growing importance of ICT in Singapore’s journey of becoming an intelligent city.

When Singapore’s new 10-year plan for the infocomm and media industries was unveiled last week, one big issue it faced was how uncertain and unpredictable the future was.

Here was a blueprint, the latest in a series of decade-long plans, aimed at steering the Singapore government and private sector into areas that would be big in the years ahead, such as data analytics and immersive media.

Sierra Leone's National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) is now all set for a two days Regional Ministerial Consultative Conference on Ebola slated to commence tomorrow 26 August 2015, at the Bintumani International Conference Centre, Aberdeen, Freetown. The conference is co-organized by the Government of Sierra Leone and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in consultation with the Governments of Liberia and Guinea. His Excellency President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, will officially launch the event which will receive in audience, Ministers of Information and Communications; Ministers of Health from over 20 countries; National Regulatory Authorities of the Telecom Sector in West Africa & beyond, UN Agencies, NERC, International NGOs, MDAs, Telcos, Facebook executives and more.

Success: One of South Korea’s most popular information centre

MOLEG operates the Korea Law Service Centre which is one of the most popular and biggest data centres in the country. The Centre aims to allow government departments, businesses and citizens to quickly and easily search, understand and use the diverse legal information available.

A city is only as smart as the data it collects.

Can traffic be both a problem and a solution? Yes, and the reasons why highlight how telematics data enables cities to minimize pollution, gridlock and accidents while maximizing the impact of their transit and infrastructure budgets.

Demographic trends are poised to make traffic congestion and pollution even bigger problems than they currently are. For example, by 2050, 66 percent of the world's population are predicted to live in urban areas, up from 54 percent today. Even if cities had unlimited infrastructure budgets—which they obviously never will—expanding roads and bridges would still be difficult and often impossible simply because space is so tight. But with telematics data, even the fastest-growing cities can keep traffic and lungs flowing freely. Here's how.

An in-depth look at how technology is transforming cities around the world, focusing on advancements in transportation, energy efficiency, and smart infrastructure.

Everything You Need to Know in 50 Words

Explore how smart cities utilize technology to enhance urban life. This article delves into sustainable urban planning, innovative technologies, and strategies for developing smart cities. Discover actionable insights for creating efficient, environmentally friendly, and technologically advanced urban spaces.

From developers, to analysts, to social anthropologists, and many others with skill sets in between, innovative talent is critical to keep our state a great place to live and work. Here is a quick guide to five home state advantages we’ve identified.

“We don’t need AI or big data to tell us with much greater detail how screwed we are as a city or as a planet,” Rohit Aggarwala said at Cornell Tech’s Urban Tech Summit last week.

City leaders don’t need artificial intelligence-driven technologies to tell them they have a climate change problem, at least in the eyes of Rohit Aggarwala, New York City’s chief climate officer.

Big Data is a term used to describe large and complex data sets that can provide insightful conclusions when analyzed and visualized in a meaningful way. Over the past five years, new Internet and biometric technologies have emerged that are able to combine silos of data from different information sources into a single unified location where data can be analyzed. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies have begun to use these technologies to track people at unprecedented rates and in unprecedented ways.

There are many ways numbers can be misleading. Here are a few. A former editor of ours at Forbes magazine, the late Sheldon Zalaznick, used to talk about putting copy he read through a smell test. By that he meant that he was looking for facts and data that seemed to give off a scent that made him believe it was inaccurate or misleading. This was an ability he developed through years of reading articles about corporate finance. When he detected a fact he thought was dubious, he’d circle it with a red pen and send the copy back to the writer. He was almost always right.

Shelley was a model for us. After over a quarter of a century of reading and thinking about city and state governments, we frequently come across numbers that jump out to us as questionable. The alarming part is that these figures aren't frequently questioned by government officials who are using them for policy, management or members of the press who repeat them to the general public.

The concept of big data is a major trend in the IT world, and public-sector IT is no exception. In fact, data exists at the core of many emerging concepts in IT, including cloud computing and social media, according to Bill Briggs, chief technology officer of Deloitte Consulting. On Tuesday, Aug. 20, Briggs spoke on big data during GTC West – a two-day executive event hosted by e.Republic Inc., Government Technology’s parent company.

Key stakeholders from over 102 healthcare organizations participated in the survey conducted over a four week period from May 30 to June 28, 2013 examined the attitudes toward data use, trends in business use cases for data and analytics, the technological solutions employed by organizations, and associated challenges and barriers.

Each organization is different, and management structures also tend to vary across industries, but there are some common themes that emerge from the study. One is that senior management tends to perceive the IT group as a support function or as a manager of outsourced services. CIOs also too often fail to discuss IT issues in terms of the value they add to the business. Finally, some simply lack the political or business acumen necessary to succeed in the C-suite. Nonetheless, most CIOs still say they aim to become innovative leaders of the business. But how they can achieve that transformation?

The phrase “big data analytics” conjures images of voluminous server rooms, vast labyrinths of data-manipulating algorithms and a kind of Orwellian pervasiveness only a true technophile could embrace. The high-tech and high-spun image of big-time analytics, promoted both by its corporate advocates and true believers, promises ingenuity, efficiency, accuracy, prediction and a previously unheard-of frontier in quick data-driven decisions.

No single area of innovation promises as much public value as the rapidly evolving areas that allow government officials to utilize data across agency and IT silos. These technologies, whether data mining or sophisticated middleware, produce three transformative changes — they can improve the ease with which citizens can access services, facilitate field worker problem solving and produce a foundation for answering big, predictive questions through data analytics.

Tell us about your priorities.

I have three: Big data, open data and creating what the governor calls common data platforms. We’re seeing a convergence of all three.

“We have done a great job in the past ten years to get where we are, but I am really excited about the next decade to advance this notion to get data beyond meaningful use and advancing interoperability,” she said Thursday in a keynote on Capitol Hill. DeSalvo spoke at a luncheon series hosted by the Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics–part of the HIMSS Foundation’s Institute for eHealth Policy.