Paper by Heather Openshaw: “Governments are collecting and storing vast amounts of data. The majority of data collected globally is considered dark data. This is unused, unanalyzed, and largely unstructured data that simultaneously burns budget holes and weighs down potential as an untapped resource. Dark data can exist across all forms of data collection, from IoT device logs and sensor metadata to historical paper archives and unlabeled multimedia files. Every department of a government is affected, from legal, health, financial, intelligence and so on.
While high-income countries are beginning to invest in tools, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and governance frameworks to surface and use this data, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) often lack the institutional infrastructure, technical capacity, and legal safeguards needed to do the same…(More)”.
