See how developed countries lay out "big data" strategy

After the Internet and cloud computing, large data has become another hot word in today's information society. If data is seen as a means of production, the big data will be the next frontier for innovation, competition, productivity improvement, and new wealth in the information age, worth as much as oil. At present, many Governments and international organizations are aware of the important role of large data, and they will use large data as a key to seize a new round of the commanding heights, the implementation of large data strategy.

United States: Plan ahead

March 29, 2012, the U.S. Obama administration launched a "large data research and development program", "through the collection and processing of large and complex data information, to obtain knowledge and insights, enhance the ability to accelerate the scientific and engineering areas of innovation, strengthen the United States Homeland Security, change education and learning model." To launch the program, six federal agencies, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Energy, announced that they would spend 200 million of billions of dollars to develop tools and technologies to collect, store and manage large data.

In fact, several federal agencies in the United States have launched a large number of large data projects before the program, covering areas such as defence, energy, aerospace and medical care. In order to enable agencies to achieve coordination and co-ordination in large data operations, the United States government established in 2011 the "Large Data Senior inspectorate", which was responsible for identifying the goals of the large data national plan, which culminated in the creation of a "large data research and development plan".

UK: Investment Guarantee

Despite the recession, the British government is still investing heavily in the openness and use of big data. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Commerce, Innovation and Skills announced that it would inject 600 million pounds into the development of 8 types of High-tech, of which investment in large data amounted to 189 million pounds. Willetts, the Secretary of State for Science and Technology, said the government would invest heavily in computing infrastructure and strengthen data collection and analysis, which would also attract companies to invest in the field, thus taking the lead in the data revolution.

Britain's big data strategy has been to open the core public databases on transport, weather and health before the end of this Parliament, and to invest 10 million pounds in the world's first Open Data Institute in five years. , the government will work with the publishing industry and so on to achieve free access to the results of public-funded research as soon as possible, the Royal Society is also considering how to improve the sharing and disclosure of research data among research groups and other users; The British Research Council will invest 2 million pounds to build a "research portal" that the public can retrieve through the web.

France: Supporting projects

In order to promote the development of large data areas, the French government will develop a series of investment plans aimed at developing new enterprises, software manufacturers, engineers, information systems designers, etc. The French government, in its "digital roadmap", said it would vigorously support the "big data" of strategic High-tech. France's Ministry of Economy, Finance and industry announced that it would invest 11.5 million euros to support 7 future investment projects. French Minister of production revitalization Arnaud Montebourg, Deputy minister of Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin and Investment Commissioner Louis Gallois jointly announced the decision the day after the second Paris large data conference. This is enough evidence of the French government's focus on the development of large data areas.

The French government has invested in these projects "to promote France's development in large data areas through the development of innovative solutions and their use in practice". As we all know, France has a unique advantage in the fields of mathematics and statistics.

Japan: Policy-driven

In order to improve the international competitiveness in the field of information and communication, cultivate new industries and use information and communication technology to deal with the social problems such as disaster relief and nuclear power plant accidents, Japan's General Affairs province issued a new comprehensive strategy of "active ICT Japan" in July 2012, and the future of ICT strategy in Japan has attracted much The main concern is its large data policy (from various types of data, fast access to valuable information), Japan is focusing on the status of large-scale data dissemination, development trends, facing problems and so on, in order to solve social and public problems to contribute.

(Author unit: Zhejiang Science and Technology Information Research Institute)