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Getting the most out of government data
November 1, 2022 @ 2:30 pm
November 1, 2022, 02:30 PM in London
Description
Governments are collecting ever greater amounts of data as many public services move online, and as citizens chose to interact with the government through websites and apps.
This adds to the information that government holds on the needs of its citizens across a host of central and local public services, such as health, education, demography, and employment.
This information proved useful during the coronavirus pandemic, when they suddenly and unexpectedly were combined to, for example, identify vulnerable children for education support during coronavirus lockdown or to provide food deliveries and other support to people who were clinically extremely vulnerable to the virus.
However, the information hidden in such data is not harnessed in the government’s day-to-day operations. Often, issues around data sharing between different government entities hinder the sharing of information that could help improve services, or the data is not accessible, or different data sets are updated at different frequencies.