Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Governing in the Digital Age – The Use of Data for Better Policies and Public services

Professor Dian Tjondronegoro

Please note that this is an on-going project.

Project Description

This short course sets out key learning outcomes on creating, managing, and using data for public services and policy delivery – governing with data.

Project Personnel and Beneficiaries

The program has included 23 participants in various positions, such as Deputy Director, Section Chef, Heads of Unit, Researcher, Statistician, Senior Planner, Data Curation and Data Scientist and Analyst.
The Participants’ organisations and government agencies including Ministry of National Development Planning/BAPPENAS, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Bureau of Statistics Indonesia (BPS), Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi, KPK- Corruption Eradication Commision, Lhokseumawe City Government, and Indonesian Ministry of Finance.

Outcomes to Date

Each participant needs to complete an Award Project at the end of the course to implement their learnings from the program.

To date some of the successful projects have included, Using Big Data ASN through Smart Civil Servant Data Integration System, The Use of Big Data in an Integrated System for Preventing, Detecting, and Responding to Zoonotic and EID Diseases and Governing Data for Forest Monitoring: Tackling Forest Degradation and Potential Climate-Caused Disaster through Data Integration.

Project Significance

The following learning outcomes were delivered on the project lifecycle:
• Benchmark and share experience on the use of data, including big data to inform policy and better public services;
• Explore current and proposed future applications of digital innovations and big data in public service delivery;
• Benchmark and develop strategies to improve the availability and use of reliable, accurate and current data to support policy development;
• Explore potential issues around management and use of big data, including data standardisation, data limitation, data protection and security;
• Identify lessons learned in inter-agency data coordination and collaboration (federal and state);
• Build networks with Indonesian and Australian institutions and experts for partnerships and future collaboration on the management of data to inform policy making; and
• Explore and learn how Australia and Indonesia has implemented some data principles such as data standards, metadata, data interoperability, and data reference.

Related Link

External link to https://youtu.be/1S52OhCoSD8

Co-authors
Professor Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Dr Tom Verhelst, International Development Unit
Project start
2020
Project end
Academic area
Department of Business Strategy and Innovation
Project location
  • Nathan
Project geographical impact
  • International
Publication date
October 20, 2022
Last updated
12:00 pm, November 27, 2023