Why BigData for Bangladesh?A small-talk on BigData

Fokhruz Zaman

SID Strategy Workshop, 7th Sep, 2013, Dhaka

Discussion Points

Big Data created passively by Small Individuals – why should we care?

National Big Data Initiatives – where is the world heading?

Mobile Phone, FB, Blog ‘Revolution’ in BD – our BigData?

Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) Strategy – BigData relevant?

How do we ALL start the BigData Journey?

Small Devices … Big Data – Looks familiar ?

2013 Global Map :: Small Protesters’ Big Data

…

Big Data – why should we care?

• Trends in online

news or social

media can provide

insights on

emerging concerns

• These can be highly

relevant to

National

Development

Agenda

BigData – why should we care?

Economics

• Commodity Hardware compatibility

• Reduction in Storage Cost

• Open Source System

• The Web Economy

• Co-creation with crowdsourcing

Global Big Data Initiatives…

US Gov initiated a 200M USD BigData R&D initiative in major sectors in mid-2012…!

To solve National Development Issues in Security, Health, Education, Energy, Environment

Big Data Senior Steering Group :: NIH, NSF, DARPA, DOD OSD, DHS, DOE-Science, HHS,

NARA, NASA, NIST, NOAA, NSA, and USGS

Co-chaired by NIH and NSF

UK Gov annual budget £22m

to reshape the direct.gov.uk portal into a one-stop shop to access government info

Big Data is NOT necessarily Open Data!

Global Big Data R&D…

SID Strategy – Big Data relevant?

SID sits on a Complex Policy Setting ‘hot-potato’:

Researchers want data

Public policy requires access to data

Public policy also requires protection of privacy and intellectual

property and other sensitive information

Much more to be done:

Policy on data management and data access – where a2i, BCC / LICT

can work together with SID!

Mobile Phone, FB, Blog ‘Revolution’ in

BD – our Big Data?

We are a country of Miracles…

Almost all expert predictions in the 1990s about Rural Mobile Phone Users in

Bangladesh failed and Miracle happened…

Dhaka Bus Map by http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org

Traffic Patterns prediction from anonymous CDRs on different time intervals

from the MNOs

FB Likes, Blogs analysis for Citizens’ Sensitivity Analysis …

BigData is already here in Bangladesh … we just have to adopt it more…!!!

How do we ALL start the BigData

Journey?

This SID Strategy workshop is a ‘Great Beginning’ of a BIG BigData Journey …

Let SID be the ‘Anchor’ of Bangladesh BigData Initiative

Let a2i, BCC help in the relevant policy, infrastructure and technological

foundations

Let us have this Bangladesh BigData Initiative (BBI..?) integrated into the SID

Strategic Plan for the next 3 years

Let us Think Big, Start Small, and Scale Fast with 2-3 months smaller BigData

R&D deliverables incorporating the Industry and the Academia

Let us not shy away to Fail! If we must fail, let us Fail Fast! And let us learn

from that to go ahead being stronger…

Credits / Acknowledgements

http://www.slideshare.net/srikarasu/big-data-ppt

http://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/is/upload/NIST-BD-Platforms-05-Big-Data-

Wactlar-slides.pdf

a2i, LICT / BCC

http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org/#approach

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_fa

ct_sheet_final_1.pdf

Google & Web