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

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sandra@bigdatamalaysia.org

@sandrahanchard