Salem Al Shair, Deputy Director General of eGovernment and Information Sector at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) said that eGoverment and information sector will be focused on “open data,” or making the government sector’s data available to everyone.
“The data that the different governmental departments have we want to avail it electronically, avail it in a format that is reusable so that people can take that data and connect and relate it to other data and produce a service or a benefit to the public,” Al Shair said. “The channels should always be open.”
Bassem Shahin, Content Development Manager at the TRA’s eGovernment sector explained to Gulf News that the TRA which runs the portal Emirates Government is looking to have all data available in excel sheets rather than PDF files for further use by analysts and business developers.
“For instance when the department of tourism put out the coordinates of the remarkable landmarks in Abu Dhabi, one company came and used this data by creating a mobile application that would give a tourist access to where these landmarks are and how far they are from where he/she is,” he said. “This availability of data is what people in Europe call the new oil.”
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Samia Badih
Quelle/Source: gulfnews, 10.09.2012
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