Charles Mok, Legislative Councillor (IT)
立法會(資訊科技界)議員 莫乃光 Office of the Hon Charles Mok, Legislative Councillor (IT) Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Making Government Data Work with Big Data Analysis
Towards Smart City
Charles Mok
Legislative Councillor (IT)
24 Sep 2015
Management Development Program for HKSAR government
Everyone is talking about...
GOVERNMENT IS MORE DATA-DRIVEN THAN MOST COMPANIES
- DJ Patil
Chief Data Scientist of USA
Ex-LinkedIn Chief Scientist
Global Open Data Index 2014
Hong Kong ranks #52, China ranks #54
(out of 90 regions surveyed)
What kind of data is in your department’s possession?
Where are they stored?
How are they used?
The data in and around government is enormous...
along with its complexity, number of sources and challenges
Challenges on government
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Meeting public expectations on responsiveness and service quality
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Pressure for transparency and accountability
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Continuing resources and budget constraints
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Impact of technology on operations
Are the data from your unit publicly available on
data.gov.hk?
Yes? Great!
What about those sitting in your archive or computers?
Harness the extraordinary power of govt’s data sets, unlock its vast potential for progress
This talk is about ...
Why?
"Data can enable government to do existing things more cheaply, do existing things better and do new things we don't currently do."
– Tom Heath, head of research at the Open Data Institute
Connecting the dots, visualising trends,
ask the right questions to generate insight
Data analysis can help...
Collection
Storage
Analysis
Prediction
Decision
big data analysis
The non-trivial extraction of novel, implicit, and actionable knowledge from large databases and in a timely manner.
Data Mining
in a nutshell
Global trend: Govt, data and smart cities
- Singapore: Smart Nation vision
- USA: US$160M “Smart Cities” Initiative
- China: State Council issued 3 development plans on big data
Example: analytics.usa.gov
Hong Kong is moving forward
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Digital 21 strategy
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Budget 2014: make data publicly available
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Releasing Budget data in machine-readable format
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Revamped data.gov.hk launched
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Smart city pilot study announced in East Kowloon
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Commission on Strategic Development report: Smart City
Case #1: Education
Learning about learning
US Dept of Education's foray into big data
- To explore the use of data mining to apply lessons for learning specific competencies
- To analyze courses, schools, and even entire districts
Hong Kong startup, partents and educators exploring EduTech
By Hong Kong civic tech community using government open data
- LicenCheck (an Android and web app that provides a map view of Hong Kong with markers locating all licensed restaurants)
- free service to check all licensed restaurants in Hong Kong
- searchable interface to data provided by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
Case #2: Public health and hygiene
http://data-hk.com/projects/LicenCheck/
OpenTripPlanner Analyst:
from providing info for passengers to spatial analysis, urban planning, accessibility research, and transportation engineering
Analytical tools enabling data-driven decision making, alternatives analysis, and public outreach around service changes and infrastructure development
Case #3: Transport
City: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Challenge: evaluate the health of its urban forest and find ways to retain and manage it
Solution:
- high-res satellite imagery
- repository for GIS data
- programme to seek out healthy or damaged canopy
>>> judge the efficacy of conservation projects
Case #4: Environment
What else?
- Help social workers make better decisions about when and how to intervene
- Personalising public services (e.g. social welfare)
- Detecting fraud and error (e.g. voter registration)
Better targeting services, evaluating what works,
identifying early interventions
challenges
Overcoming the silo and resistance to change
Making data structured, connected for meaningful use
Paradigm shift towards data-driven decision-making
Security and privacy: stem data breaches and fraud
Lack of data scientists/specialists with domain knowledge
Trust and public acceptability
Data innovation for a smarter, more agile government
You can make it happen
Food for thought: Takeaways
Identify data and content that are vital to your mission
Identify how, when, where and to whom information should be made available
Determine appropriate data management, governance and security practices
Identify and prioritise the data analytics projects that deliver the most value
Collaborate with the civic tech movement and other departments
Keep and manage your data, know your data,
make them talk to each other, and open it up!
Find out more...
Unlock the data
Thank you
charlesmok@charlesmok.hk
www.charlesmok.hk
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Towards Smart City: Making Government Data Work with Big Data Analysis
By Charles Mok, Legislative Councillor (IT)
Towards Smart City: Making Government Data Work with Big Data Analysis
Luncheon Talk for Management Development Program for HKSAR Government Officers (September 24, 2015)
