Asia launches first official open data portal

Source: Smart Cities World Published: March 11th, 2021

In conjunction with a data application workshop organised by Asia Open Data Partnership (AODP), the current AODP secretariat, Taipei Computer Association has launched Asia’s first, official open data portal.

The intention for Asia Open Data Portal is to offer a single point of access to open data published by institutions, agencies and organisations in a growing number of Asian member states.

Pollution in cities

According to AODP, the portal currently features more than 73,000 datasets, organised 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, signalling a new era of data democratisation across Asia.

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 seeking to overcome with the use of machine translation and diplomatic efforts toward data standardisation.

The Asia Open Data Portal launch and data application workshop was live streamed on the DataEconomy YouTube channel, featuring talks from AODP representatives in Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, India, Thailand and Cambodia.

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