(Futuregov.asia) - Malaysia yesterday 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.
The lab was set up in January by MIMOS, Modernisation and Management Planning Unit and Multimedia Development Corporation, as part of a wider national Big Data Analytics Innovation Network.
It is already testing ideas to analyse the public mood on a newly introduced tax and on flooding. With the Ministry of Finance, “we are extracting some data related to the newly implemented GST [Goods and Services Tax] by the Malaysian government, and we are looking at the sentiments of the public, extracting data from social network and blogs, so that this information will provide a better reading of the sentiments”, a MIMOS spokesperson told FutureGov.
Another project with the Department of Irrigation and Drainage is “looking at data from sensors and also feedback from the public on social media on flood issues, and others related to irrigation”, he said.
Other agencies testing their ideas at the lab are the Department of Islamic Development and National Hydraulic Research Institute.
The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Datuk Dr Ewon Ebin, said that his ministry will work with the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia to ensure that the lab maintains data security and sovereignty.
The lab will eventually be opened up for use by the private sector, the MIMOS spokesperson said.
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