Page 178 - Are You Future Ready?

It also announced that more than 650 datasets will be
opened free of charge for the public to browse and use on

the website (data.gov.hk) in the same year. Such a move
fulfils the promise of the Chief Executive to open data which
was given in the policy address of 2018.

In fact, the Government has a huge amount of information.
The priority of opening data depends on their use for
solving current problems. Therefore, I think the government
should set up three different tiers of data sharing platforms

176 to fulfil various needs:

1. Common spatial data
infrastructure (CSDI) –

to promote innovations
• An open and easy-to-use
data sharing platform
• Data in a machine readable

format or application programming
interface (APl) for application developers
and startups to develop mobile applications
• The Singapore government plans to make at least

90% of government data available in API by 2023