BIG DATA MALAYSIA @ Open Government Partnership Seminar and Exhibition Sandra Hanchard Kuala Lumpur, 18 August 2015 http://ideas.org.my/events/18-august-2015-open-government-partnership-seminar-and-exhibition/

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Open and proprietary datasets

5. 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.

6. Tech Enablers

7. Fuelling innovation in services

8. “Informal” / Open Data
approaches in Malaysia
WHO
• 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

9. Value: Bring data to life through visual analytics, encourage
citizen engagement

10. Value: More efficient public transport system for low-middle
income Malaysians

11. Digitization efforts
Value: Pricing transparency in property market: balance
information asymmetries

12. PropStats
Value:
Leads monetization to local portals

13. Value:
Access to credit and personal financial management

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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?

17. Towards Informal Data
Economies
“Large organisations
should make concerted
efforts to release data
to the public in
machine-consumable
form to unlock value
hidden within their
data assets.”

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

21. Current research
survey.bigdatamalaysia.org

22. Join our community to tap into
Big Data talent
facebook.com/groups/bigdatamy
sandra@bigdatamalaysia.org
@sandrahanchard