Why are big data strategies being pursued by developed countries?

"Enterprise Network D1net" March 21 News

With the advent of the large data age, large data has risen to the national strategy of the world, especially by the developed countries. Big data is becoming the forefront of national competition, as well as the source of industry competitiveness and business model innovation.

The United Nations "Data pulsation" program, the United States "big data" strategy, the UK "Data Rights" campaign, Japan's "Integrated ICT strategy for the 2020", Korea's large data center strategy has opened a big data strategy, a powerful impetus to the large-scale data industrialization, market-oriented process. Large data strategy can not only promote social productivity and create new social value, but also improve the efficiency of government management, improve service level and speed up the construction of innovative ability.

Reasons for the implementation of large data strategy in developed countries

1. Large data has become an important strategic resource

Large data is a strategic resource as important as natural resources and human resources. The United States suggests that big data is strategically comparable to industrial-era oil. The large data industry in the United States has entered a large-scale commercialization phase and has penetrated into many fields such as economy, politics, education, security and social management. The Obama team put big data analysis into the campaign, digging through the massive data collected and stored over the past two years, searching for and locking potential voters, and using digital strategies to position centrist voters and raise election money. The EU sees big data as an important force for economic growth. The December 2011 EU report noted that the full opening of data resources, such as geographical information, statistics, meteorological data, public funding research projects and digital libraries, produced, collected or undertaken by European Union public institutions, is expected to bring 40 billion euros of economic growth to the EU each year. The CEBR 2012 study of the British Centre for Economic and Business Research further confirms the economic value of large data, with the value of data assets of private and public sector companies in 2011 at £ 25.1 billion and 2017 expected to reach 40.7 billion pounds. South Korea believes that public data has become an important national asset with social and economic value. The "Smart Seoul 2015" program points out that the "Seoul Open Data Plaza" is an Open data center with 33 databases and 880 datasets that provide users with the top ten types of public data information, including childcare services, public transport routes, bus arrival time, parking spaces, Regional weather forecasts and restaurant recommendations cover all aspects of life.

2. Large data has become a huge engine for enterprise development

The success of the "Facebook" and "net Flying" project marks the rapid development of information technology enterprises to promote large data business. In recent years, IBM has been keen on acquisitions in the field of data mining and data analysis, with $16 billion trillion in acquisitions of more than 30 large data companies, and Oracle's acquisition of oil, electricity and water dataraker companies to drive large data applications; Information multinationals such as Microsoft, Google and Intel have been transformed into big data companies. Traditional companies are also actively exploring the use of large data innovation business models, such as Ford Motor Company in Silicon Valley to create laboratories to deal with a large number of car-related data. Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain, has started to use large data technology to collect and analyze information about its customer's behavior, to sum up the consumption habits of specific customers and the potential consumer demand in the near future, and to develop targeted promotional programs to provide more efficient marketing models for Tesco. Open source projects with large data technologies provide opportunities for individual entrepreneurship, and start-ups continue to emerge.

3. Large data applications developed rapidly

In recent years, large data development has been widely concerned, the application has been everywhere. The experience of the United States has proved that the internet industry, business intelligence and consulting services, retail industry benefited the most, medical, health, transportation, logistics and even biotechnology, astronomy and other fields began to recognize the value of large data. The McKinsey report noted that large data saved America's health services industry by $300 billion a year, saving 250 billion euros per year for European public sector management, contributing $100 billion to global personal location data service providers, and helping to increase the net profit growth of the US retail industry by 60%, helping the manufacturing industry in product development, Assembly and other links to save 50% of the cost.

4. Innovation as a direct driver of large data strategy

The financial crisis has forced the government to improve policy transparency and innovate the way of government management to change the current predicament. The timely emergence of large data has become the most important impetus to promote management innovation, improve public service efficiency and stimulate economic growth. Japan's big data strategy is centred on "creating new markets and boosting economic growth". America's Big Data strategy focuses on improving U.S. research, education and national security capabilities and social management capabilities. The EU's Open data strategy is centred on open data, with innovation, growth and transparent governance as the engine. South Korea to "use large data to solve the public's small annoyance" to build a smart city infrastructure needed to promote the information technology and public service industry progress and development.

D1net Comments:

The advent of the big data age is an irreversible trend, the big data rises for the national strategy, is also the big data age inevitable trend, the developed country has carried out the big data strategy, undoubtedly is sees the big data can bring the national competition strength promotion, from above four reasons can find the clear answer, along with the big data age development, The future not only developed countries, even developing countries and countries around the world, will increase the big data as a national strategy.