KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 (Bernama) -- The Taipei Computer Association has launched Asia's first, official open data portal, in conjunction with a data application workshop organised by Asia Open Data Partnership (AODP) at Open Data Day 2021.
Asia Open Data Portal offers a single point of access to open data, published by institutions, agencies and organisations in a growing number of Asian member states, signalling a new era of data democratisation across Asia.
The portal currently features over 73.1 thousand datasets, organised into 20 catalogues and 12 categories, which can help to solve problems such as pollution in cities and the sourcing of PPE.
According to a statement, data is collected from a growing number of AODP member states, including South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and India.
Challenges facing the project include the diversity of Asian languages and data formats used by the different states' public and private sectors, which AODP is overcoming with the use of machine translation and diplomatic efforts toward data standardisation.
Asia Open Data Portal was initiated by the Organization for Data-driven Application (Taiwan) in 2017, modelled on the EU Open Data Portal, and officially approved by the AODP member states in 2019.
The goal is to bolster Asia’s industrial development across all sectors and emerging technologies, such as AI and IoT.
-- BERNAMA
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