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Chapter Two - Right Timing

Concurrently, in order to promote the innovation industries,
the government will establish an open and easy-to-

use information platform, that is a common spatial data
infrastructure (CSDI), to provide data linked to geospatial
locations in a machine readable format or application
programming interface (API) for the convenience of

application developers, and to facilitate the better
accessibility and utilisation of data with the business
sector.

Singapore’s ambition is shown on the success indicators 123
listed in the blueprint. By 2023, at least 75-80% of its
citizens and the business community shall be “very
satisfied” with the government’s digital services. This figure

represents almost the whole country. At the same time, 90-
100% of the core data fields have to be available in an API
format.

Geospatial information is particularly valuable. Navigant
Research estimated that the value of the global market for
core geographic information in 2016 was about USD1.6
billion (approximately HK$12.5 billion), and it will double