“As the creation and collection of data continue to increase dramatically, industry and federal stakeholders alike are grappling with the ramifications of unprecedented access to insights and the corresponding challenges of privacy and security.”
“The benefits of unlocking data-driven insights are many. However, if data is the new oil, as some say, then IT leaders in both industry and government must proceed purposefully, engaging in open dialogue to promote data best practices and forestall malicious or unintended consequences. Federal agencies, in particular, are in a unique position to leverage the petabytes of data they possess to better execute their missions and improve the citizen experience.”
“Agency leaders from the Small Business Administration, the White House and the U.S. Digital Service at the Department of Veterans Affairs provided some insight into how federal agencies are dealing with today’s unprecedented age of data collection and how they might leverage data and associated technologies to glean valuable insights during a panel at the GovernmentCIO Tech Futures event last week.” Read the full article here.
Source: Dealing with Data and Emerging Tech – By Connor Collins, May 15, 2019. GovernmentCIO.
