Lab testing whether social media data can be used to gauge the public mood on tax, flooding.
Malaysia today officially launched a government lab to analyse data from across agencies and to test new ways of using the data to improve public services.
The Digital Government Lab will “facilitate various ministries and agencies to have a greater level of analytics of the collected data, in strict adherence to the government’s data security, integrity and sovereignty guidelines”, said Datuk Abdul Wahab Abdullah, Chief Executive of MIMOS, the country’s national ICT research agency.