Feasibility study for an international (meta-)data platform
Organización patrocinadora
Switzerland
Organización
Gobierno
Organización(es) de apoyo
Tipo de datos
Estadísticas oficiales
Datos de encuesta
Datos de los ciudadanos
Datos del sector privado
Datos geoespaciales
Datos administrativos
Inteligencia artificial
Registro civil y estadísticas vitales
de censos
Supervisión y evaluación
Datos para la supervisión de los ODS
Transversal
Región
Global
Objetivo
“Good data”, which is representative, comparable, harmonized, interoperable, and subject to ethical principles, provides added value for societies and helps them in fact-checking and countering fake news. Governments have the means to publish “good data” in such a way that it is visible. A global platform could link this “good data” together. This would increase transparency and enable more evidence-based policy-making, and enable the re-use of data by governments, science and all other actors.
What problem is this commitment aiming to solve?
Imagine you are looking for health data from a given country and want to compare it with health data from another country. Today, it takes a long search in the countries, at international organizations, etc. to find this data. Moreover, data so far mostly exists in separated areas, in so-called silos. The data is often collected or gathered for a specific purpose. It can often only be used for this purpose.
Briefly describe the commitment including key activities, strategies and intended outcomes.
If the national metadata platforms and those of international organizations are harmonized, then a global platform can connect to all these platforms. Thus, all (good) data sets could be made visible in a global platform. The platform would be able to tell you who has which data sets, how good the quality is, how often they are collected, whether they are representative. If they are open government data, you can access it directly via an API, otherwise the platform would contain information on where you can request access and, if applicable, who is allowed to link it with other data. The data itself remains on its own platform.
We commit to commissioning, through the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, a feasibility study by an international expert, in order to assess the feasibility of such a platform, and – if appropriate – to outline potential key parameters and a timeline for building it.
Plazo
The feasibility study is expected to be conducted in autumn 2024. Potential subsequent steps will be determined based on the results of the study.
Persona de Contacto
Benjamin Rothen
international@bfs.admin.ch