Study partnership announced by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The Australian Government will launch a “comprehensive” survey to assess which datasets are most valuable to businesses and researchers, Malcolm Turnbull, Australian Communications Minister has announced this week.
In partnership with New York University’s GovLab, the federal government will look at organisations that use public datasets “to generate new business, develop new products and services or create social value,” he said.
Called Open Data 500, the initiative will then find a method for assessing the economic and social value of open government datasets, and in particular identify the types of data most valuable to businesses, Turnbull added.
The minister also noted the value of spatially-referenced data, saying that it’s “akin to the coming of the first ancient maps in the new insights and direction it can offer in a globalised world”.
Turnbull said that spatial data and analysis “will be used to deliver better targeted services to users” and that the new Digital Transformation Office will lead this agenda.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Joshua Chambers
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 11.03.2015
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