open and proprietary data economies in malaysia: the consumption perspective
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Sandra Hanchard
Kuala Lumpur, 18 August 2015
Open and Proprietary Data Economies in
Malaysia: The Consumption Perspective
BIG DATA MALAYSIA @
Open Government Partnership Seminar and Exhibition
About Big Data Malaysia
• Community for professionals with interest in all things Big Data
• 3,000+ people across channel network
• Since 2012, organising regular free educational topic-based meetups (e.g. Data science, Dataviz, Open Data + more)
• Partners & supporters: Experian, Teradata, Nintex, F-Secure, MoneyLion, MDeC + more
• We are: Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts, End-Users, Managers, CxOs, Entrepreneurs
MYL Interest in Big Data
• No longer in domain of ICT firms; cross industry incl. marketing, education, scientific, finance, media, manufacturing etc.
• Driven by top-line revenue & business growth, versus bottom-line factors such as efficiency
Open and proprietary datasets
Commercial use of open data in Malaysia still nascent
•What does open data mean in a commercial context?
• “Open data has minimum barriers: legal, commercial and tech.”
•Stimulating and regulating consumption economy of open and proprietary datasets.
Tech Enablers
Fuelling innovation in services
“Informal” / Open Data approaches in MalaysiaWHO
• Data-driven businesses
• Analytics and dataviz consultancies
• Startups: intermediaries and aggregators
• MNC credit and financial sectors
HOW
• Behavioural targeting and advertising
• Free recent data, premium historical data
• Tools, easy to consume statistics, insights
• Reputation endorsement
Value: Bring data to life through visual analytics, encourage
citizen engagement
Value: More efficient public transport system for low-middle
income Malaysians
Digitization efforts
Value: Pricing transparency in property market: balance
information asymmetries
PropStats
Value:
Leads monetization to local portals
Value:
Access to credit and personal financial management
Perspectives on open data in MYL
• “We can do more; and more quickly. We have a strong mobile app talent ecology in Malaysia; let’s encourage these groups to use open data ” –OR Tech
• “We need to hear more of “Yes, and..” rather than, “Yes, but” – Transit Watch
• “What are the Win-Win partnerships and arrangements we can make?” - PropStats
Next steps..
• Communicate public value: What does the public get back? What’s in it for me?
• Create buzz and excitement around open data
• Demonstrate value
• Overcome defensiveness and silos
• Guerilla tactics: cut out intermediaries and gatekeepers e.g. crowdsourcing data
• Funding for open data projects
Data Wish List: data.gov.my
• Live: not just historical data for economic modelling etc.
• Greater range of datasets
• Socialisation of datasets
Towards #opendata stories: what are the benefits?
Towards Informal Data Economies
“Large organisationsshould make concerted efforts to release data to the public in machine-consumableform to unlock value hidden within their data assets.”
Greater awareness needed of IP arrangements
• What constitutes Fair Use?
• Exchange of value?
• Education on licensing and creative commons
CC Malaysia Mixtape 2015 by Muid
Latif under CC BY NC ND
Cultures of giving back
• APIS to allow other researchers and users to build on their datasets and aggregations.
• Can be used back for R&D, and discovery of use cases
• Open source; help to improve original dataset
• Share infrastructure, talent and resources.
Skills Gaps: we need to democratize big data
• Increasing number of data science programs in Malaysia via government, industry and education providers
• Focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths)
• Data and technical literacy becoming mandatory for end-users e.g. media / communication / journalist graduates
• Community groups e.g. Big Data Malaysia
Current research
survey.bigdatamalaysia.org
Join our community to tap into Big Data talent
facebook.com/groups/bigdatamy
@sandrahanchard