Asia Launches First Official Open Data Portal at Open Data Day 2021
Summary
The portal currently features over 73.1 thousand datasets, organized into 20 catalogues and 12 categories, which can help to solve problems such as pollution in cities and the sourcing of PPE. Data is collected from a growing number of AODP member states, including South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and India. Special presentations were given by the 3 Invincible Award winners from last years Asia Open Data Challenge. Next, a team member from Smart Delivery (Japan) presented his team’s innovation in logistics, utilizing open data to incentivize and assist couriers in delivering food and medicine to elderly people in rural Japan. Its goal is to bolster Asia’s industrial development across all sectors and emerging technologies, such as AI and IoT.