The presentation deals with the use of data analytics by governments.

1. Government Analytics
Some imperatives
Randeep Sudan
Advisor Digital Strategy and Government Analytics
World Bank

2. “the potential value of using open data
in seven “domains” of the global
economy: education, transportation,
consumer products, electricity, oil and
gas, health care, and consumer finance.”
$3 trillion
annually
Source: Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance
with liquid information, 2013.

3. Insight
Photograph by Brandon Satterwhite Flickr

4. Real time data analytics!

5. The DAC has been established within the NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation (DFSI).
New South Wales Data Analytics Center (DAC)

7. Key functions of the Center
 Deliver priority analytics projects using whole of government data in a
secure environment
 Advise on NSW government challenges and potential solutions using
data analytics
 Manage a secure environment for data sharing

8. Key functions of the Center (contd.)
 Establish and maintain a register of data assets
 Coordinate consistent data management definitions and standards
 Advise on making de-identified data open to the public
 Advise on best practice data analytics, cyber security and privacy
measures

10. Data sharing legislation
 enable government sector agencies to agree to share government sector data
with the DAC or other government sector agencies for certain purposes,
 enable the Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation to give directions in
certain circumstances to require government sector agencies to share
government sector data with the DAC,
 enable the Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation to obtain information
for the DAC from government sector agencies about the kinds of data sets that
they control, and
 specify safeguards (including in relation to the collection, use, disclosure,
protection, keeping, retention or disposal of health information or personal
information of individuals) to be complied with by the DAC and other government
sector agencies in connection with data sharing under the proposed Act.

11. The Bill was drafted in consultation with the Privacy Commissioner.
Sharing of personal data is excluded. This data is managed according to:
•Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW) (PPIP Act)
•Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW) (HRIP Act)
All data identified in Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (GIPAA) as exempt
from public release in Schedule (1) and Schedule (2) are also specifically exempt from the
Data Sharing legislation.
These are:
•Schedule 1 - Information for which there is conclusive presumption of overriding public
interest against disclosure
•Schedule 2 - Excluded information of particular agencies
See: Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW)
Privacy and Health Records

17. Global mobile data traffic grew 74 percent in 2015. Global mobile data traffic reached 3.7 exabytes per
month at the end of 2015, up from 2.1 exabytes per month at the end of 2014.
Mobile data traffic has grown 4,000-fold over the past 10 years and almost 400-million-fold over the
past 15 years. Mobile networks carried fewer than 10 gigabytes per month in 2000, and less than 1
petabyte per month in 2005. (One exabyte is equivalent to one billion gigabytes, and one thousand
petabytes.)
Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI)

18.  An Exabyte is 1000000000000000000 bits (18 zeros)