Open Data Principles” is referred to as Open Government Data (OGD).
“Open Government” is a term that is used to describes a worldwide trend for governments to become more open, transparent, accountable and efficient. Open
Government is a cultural change towards new relationships between governments and citizens and other stakeholders based on dialogue and collaboration. Open
Government policies embrace the use of modern Information and Communications
Technologies (ICT) as well as digital information and data as a means to create more meaningful interactions between citizens and governments and build better public services. Although OGD is a vital part and precondition for any successful Open
Government initiative it is also obvious that OGD
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As business technology has advanced exponentially in recent years, data-driven decision making has become a much more fundamental part of all sorts of industries, including important fields like medicine, transportation, and equipment manufacturing.
Data-driven decision making is also known as data-driven decision management or data-directed decision making. The idea of data-driven decision making is that decisions should be extrapolated from key data sets that show their projected efficacy and how they might work out. Businesses generally use a wide range of enterprise tools to get this data and to present it in ways that back up decisions. This is in stark contrast to the way that decision-making had been done throughout the history of commercial enterprise, where before the presence of new complex technologies, individuals often made decisions based on observation or informed guesswork.
These days, if one wants to know how a given product might perform in a market, what a customer might think of a slogan, or where to deploy business resources, decision support software can help. That has led to a much bigger demand for
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The dataset must be relevant to the question at hand. It also must be timely, accurate, clean, unbiased; and perhaps most importantly, it has to be trustworthy. I have often heard that data scientists spend 80% of their time obtaining, cleaning, and preparing data, and only 20% of their time building models, analyzing, visualizing, and drawing conclusions from that data. In my experience, this is entirely
plausible. Also, I want to remark, that even if we do have quality data, and even if we have a lot of quality data, we will only get so far and; despite the hype that we might hear, it does not make us data-driven. Some people, especially certain big data vendors and service providers, pimp big data as a panacea. The hard truth is that data alone is not enough. A small amount of clean, trustworthy data can be far more valuable than petabytes of junk. Data must be accessible and query-able. When we say that we have accurate, timely, and relevant data, though, is not sufficient to count as data-driven. It has to be also: Joinable, which mean, that the data must be in a form that can be joined to other enterprise data when necessary. Another important thing is that the data
The company conducted a serious market research and can use the results to make the best decision.
First, there is nowhere in the article that cites where this information was collected or if the informat...
When our information is exposed to any one, we are in danger of who possess it. The problem data aggregation is that it do not give us the privecy that is I think it is one of the basic rights. No one should look to our information unless it become it used in important matters there are many information that can allow anyone to know how to use it to mailblack us or even know how to convence us to do what they want. today some websites can exposes our information by a few dollars to anyone who intersted to do so. At the end there is nothing hiding in the Internet, and we become like open books that everyone can use it against us. In this world there is no ethics anymore. It is so desapointeing that Money and power determines what is legal and what is not legal.
The United States government is up to its ears in the personal information it has collected from its citizens. Americans are becoming increasingly “aware of these slowly eroding walls of privacy,”(Hirsh) and more than half polled admit concern “about the overall accumulation of personal information about them “by […] law enforcement, government, […] and other groups,” though “they accept it as an unavoidable modern phenomenon” (Hirsh). The question is, how far is too far to trust the government with the collection, proper storage, and usage of this information? Studies show that “Americans believe that business, government, social-media sites, and other groups are accessing their most personal information without their consent” (Hirsh). People should be given the ability to admit or deny access to their personal information. The government does not have a right to use whatever information it wants for any purpose it wishes. Michael Hayden, once the NSA director for seven years, says, “Even I recognize that it's one thing for Google to know too much, because they aren't putting me in jail. It's another thing for government, because they can coerce me” (Hirsh). The United States government's ability to collect information about its citizens and residents should be restricted by what kind of information it can take, how it can acquire it, and what it can use it for.
Helen makes a great point because it wasn’t until a few years ago that technology exploded and began to create all these different forms of databases that can do...
Information technology has advanced in multiple ways in society, where organizations has implement the structure into their work environment. Industries have outsource their manufacturing to other places in the world and rely on telecommunication to keep the marketing. The geographic distribution has changed significantly by reducing the distance it takes to complete an operation, due to information technology. These are just a couple of examples of how this advanced technology has reshape our society and continuing.
judge the value of information based on who provide it, but not what it is. This
Supporting inspiration with data - making extensive, aggressive use of data and testing to support ideas according to a Harvard case study people aren't allowed to say 'I think' but instead must say 'The data suggest...'
Government Surveillance today has changed from what it used to be. Technology has expanded through the past several decades and the government’s monitoring abilities have also expanded tremendously. Since the September 11, 2001 9/11 terrorist attacks, government surveillance has become more a part of everyday life. Government surveillance is said to help in efforts of capturing terrorists and stopping terrorist attacks before they even happen. But how much of our civil liberties are we giving up in order to maybe help capture some terrorists. The rapidly advancing technology of today and a more globalizing culture has made privacy and civil liberties come more into the forefront of our views. After about nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the government surveillance system put into place to keep the United States safe, is so massive that its effectiveness is becoming questionable.
The world is getting smaller, yet remains full of possibilities due in part to technology. Interestingly, the very first emails could only be sent to someone using two computers, literally side by side. Technology dates back to the first manipulations of materials to assist in human survival. There are many definitions for technology, John D. Carl describes technology stating,” it deals with the creation, use, and application of knowledge and its’ interrelation with life, society, and the environment” (Carl, J.D., 2011, p.301). For the purpose of this paper, any instrument, invention, or method influencing and allowing people to control or adapt to their environment, is technology. With the increased availability of technological tools (smart phones, text messaging, image scanning, email, and social media), communication is rapidly changing. Society has moved beyond the Industrial Age and into the Information Age, where the sharing of knowledge and ideas is the new driver of power and world economy. Technology possesses many merits, and as with any tool, it carries drawbacks. Misuse and overuse creates unsavory dependence. This dependence can have adverse affects on people, business, and education. Technology receives vast criticism for reducing face-to-face interactions. Although the information technology of today is widely held as impersonal, it promotes communication; technology reduces costs and leverages productivity by facilitating access to information and knowledge, and augmenting interaction amongst those who utilize technology.
One aspect where information acts as something valuable is in the area of sports. The National Football League is a billion dollar business. The careers of coaches, players and general managers can rest on one play or one game. To minimize mistakes or to find any advantage, teams spend millions of dollars to pay scouts to provide useful information. One part of putting together a winning team is doing well on draft day. Teams do a tremendous amount of research on every player who is eligible to be drafted. The NFL has its own private investigation firm. It is called NFL Security, and it is rarely seen or discussed. Its job is to compile information about every possible draftee. If players smoke marijuana at Saturday-night parties, it's probably in their files. If players stay in bars past 2 A.M., it's probably in their files (Sports Illustrated p.34). The purpose of NFL Security is to prevent a team from investing millions of dollars in a player who might have drug or other problems that could prevent a player from performing up to a certain standard. "For the amount of money involved here, the employers would like to know good hard facts about their potential players. Employers deserve that. And we're going to give it to them," says Mike Ahlerich, an employee at NFL Securities (Sports Illustrated p.
That is a tsunami of material that can reveal a great deal of information -- good and bad and everything in between. Social
Technology has changed modern society drastically, both positively and negatively. Technology has influenced every aspect of our life, making it simpler but not necessarily better. Albert Einstein was concerned about the advancement of technology. "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction."1 Undoubtedly, what has changed the most are communication, the spread of information, and how business is practiced. Consequently, practically everyone knows how to use a computer, connect to the Internet, or use a smartphone. This is demonstrated by the way the Internet is used daily by millions of people to communicate, to sell, advertise, retrieve, and share information. Thanks to the Internet, information from anywhere in the world is at our fingertips. As a result, the advancement of technology has changed our life in many ways including; sharing of information, communication, business, education, social interaction, simplifying everyday tasks, replacing basic skills and jobs.
The information can be expressed through words, numbers, sounds, and images. By better understanding digital technology, we improve our control over such information.
The presence of computers, phones, internet and wireless devices have broadened the web of connectivity by changing long distances to short ones where everyone is equal distance from the other through the present connections. Leaving without technology will be totally impossible as this has become every day’s application as more and more people are gaining knowledge on how to make use of the communication tools to improve their ways of living and staying informed on the current technology to avoid being left behind. New technologies are being developed daily which shows that the industry will continue to grow and expand. People will continue using these technologies to improve their standards and to stay informed