• Improving public safety by assessing potential risks
Governance through Data (terrorist attacks as a result of access to tourist and
It is phenomenon where the elected/ruling government in a
nation relies excessively on data for framing policies. It collects
and maintains both the necessary and unnecessary data and can
act in preemptive way to maintain political and economical
peace in the nation and also frame and optimize the effective
policies.
Governance through Data is GOOD
Having the insights (data) about the preferences, motivations,
interests of the masses is an added advantage to the people
running the nation. Barring a few authoritarian nations like
China, Russia etc., in most democratic nations the data about
its citizens is the extreme need of hour. The fundamental
reason is that DEMOCRACY is group of people and is never
a single player sport. The greed of a single person cannot
withstand in democratic nations. For eg., every foreign
political scholar from the advanced nations thought that the
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw would take over the country
at the time of EMERGENCY during 1975 in India but it
proved otherwise. On top of it below can be the benefits of
Governance through Data for either a Democratic and a Non-
Democratic nation:-
• Precise estimation and prediction of economic impacts of
changes to tax policy.
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• Improving national programs (e.g. Social Welfare and
National health insurance) to alleviate poverty and
improve the quality of education.
immigration data) and analyzing crime statistics.
• Understanding social and economic factors that can
help the public by focused on areas of scarcity and
allocating essential resources to avoid waste and
increase efficiency.
• Increase government involvement in a variety of sectors
(e.g. In national disaster management and effective aid
response)..
• Transportation optimization is key to creating smart
cities (e.g. Highway toll tickets can be analysed to
determine the need newer highway routes)
• Preventing and decreasing all forms of corruption in
the public sector (e.g. land registry and reselling of
already sold lands).
• When necessary, personal data can be obtained on
the scene (for example, police and emergency
personnel can scan an injured person's biometric
data to get their medical history and details without
interviewing the victims or perpetrators).
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