Big Data Initiative in Bangladesh. SID Strategy Workshop.

1. Why BigData for Bangladesh?
A small-talk on BigData
Fokhruz Zaman
SID Strategy Workshop, 7th Sep, 2013, Dhaka

2. Discussion Points
 Big Data created passively by Small Individuals – why should we care?
 National Big Data Initiatives – where is the world heading?
 Mobile Phone, FB, Blog ‘Revolution’ in BD – our BigData?
 Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) Strategy – BigData relevant?
 How do we ALL start the BigData Journey?

3. Small Devices … Big Data – Looks familiar ?

4. 2013 Global Map :: Small Protesters’ Big Data
…

5. Big Data – why should we care?
• Trends in online
news or social
media can provide
insights on
emerging concerns
• These can be highly
relevant to
National
Development
Agenda

6. BigData – why should we care?
Economics
• Commodity Hardware compatibility
• Reduction in Storage Cost
• Open Source System
• The Web Economy
• Co-creation with crowdsourcing

7. Global Big Data Initiatives…
 US Gov initiated a 200M USD BigData R&D initiative in major sectors in mid-2012…!
 To solve National Development Issues in Security, Health, Education, Energy, Environment
 Big Data Senior Steering Group :: NIH, NSF, DARPA, DOD OSD, DHS, DOE-Science, HHS,
NARA, NASA, NIST, NOAA, NSA, and USGS
 Co-chaired by NIH and NSF
 UK Gov annual budget £22m
 to reshape the direct.gov.uk portal into a one-stop shop to access government info
 Big Data is NOT necessarily Open Data!

8. Global Big Data R&D…

9. SID Strategy – Big Data relevant?
 SID sits on a Complex Policy Setting ‘hot-potato’:
 Researchers want data
 Public policy requires access to data
 Public policy also requires protection of privacy and intellectual
property and other sensitive information
 Much more to be done:
 Policy on data management and data access – where a2i, BCC / LICT
can work together with SID!

10. Mobile Phone, FB, Blog ‘Revolution’ in
BD – our Big Data?
 We are a country of Miracles…
 Almost all expert predictions in the 1990s about Rural Mobile Phone Users in
Bangladesh failed and Miracle happened…
 Dhaka Bus Map by http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org
 Traffic Patterns prediction from anonymous CDRs on different time intervals
from the MNOs
 FB Likes, Blogs analysis for Citizens’ Sensitivity Analysis …
 BigData is already here in Bangladesh … we just have to adopt it more…!!!

11. How do we ALL start the BigData
Journey?
 This SID Strategy workshop is a ‘Great Beginning’ of a BIG BigData Journey …
 Let SID be the ‘Anchor’ of Bangladesh BigData Initiative
 Let a2i, BCC help in the relevant policy, infrastructure and technological
foundations
 Let us have this Bangladesh BigData Initiative (BBI..?) integrated into the SID
Strategic Plan for the next 3 years
 Let us Think Big, Start Small, and Scale Fast with 2-3 months smaller BigData
R&D deliverables incorporating the Industry and the Academia
 Let us not shy away to Fail! If we must fail, let us Fail Fast! And let us learn
from that to go ahead being stronger…

12. Credits / Acknowledgements
 http://www.slideshare.net/srikarasu/big-data-ppt
 http://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/is/upload/NIST-BD-Platforms-05-Big-Data-
Wactlar-slides.pdf
 a2i, LICT / BCC
 http://www.urbanlaunchpad.org/#approach
 http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_fa
ct_sheet_final_1.pdf
 Google & Web