The Department of Finance and Deregulation, through the Australian Government Information Management Office, has released a draft version of its Big Data Strategy Issues Paper for public consultation. The aim of the strategy is to “highlight key opportunities and challenges that big data will bring to government agencies” and “to assist agencies to take advantage of these opportunities and realise the potential benefits of these new technologies”. The strategy also intends to consider a coordinated approach, across government, for the adoption of big data analytics technologies.
The big data strategy is intended for agency senior executives and business program managers. It is designed to highlight key opportunities and challenges that big data will bring to government agencies. The strategy will aim to assist agencies to take advantage of these opportunities and realise the potential benefits of these new technologies.
The Issues Paper says that through the Big Data Working Group and other groups such as the ATO’s Data Analytics Centre of Excellence, agency stakeholders in big data and its related technologies will be able to engage with industry, academia, non-government organisations and other interested parties locally and internationally. Further to this, the pursuit of big data technologies by government agencies will see a number of potential collaboration opportunities between agencies. Privacy and security of data are major issues. The paper says the use of big data by government agencies may add an additional layer of complexity in terms of managing information security risks.
COMMENTS are due by COB on Friday, 5 April 2013.
[LTN 52, 18/3/13]