DATA SCIENCE PLANS

NSW & US DATA SCIENCE PLAN COMPARISON

Syed Muhammad Sabihuddin

College of Computer & Information Sciences

Regis University
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Abstract

This paper provides a detailed discussion on Data Sciences plans of NSW along with its

thorough comparison with the Data plans of the United States.

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Introduction

Since the start of the 21st century computerized information ascends with exponentially

every year [ CITATION Alg141 \l 1033 ]. Web, informal communities, cell phones, exchanges

made through Mastercard’s prompted an expansion of computerized information stream, show

up plenitude of data, world is loaded up with data. Investigators anticipate that computerized

information increment 40% each year and will arrive at 44 zetabyte in 2020.

The scope of procedures that make up data science, new apparatuses for dissecting

information, new datasets, and novel types of information, have incredible potential to be utilized

in policies concerning the public in general. Be that as it may, until this point, these apparatuses

have mainly been the space of scholastics, and, where they have been put to utilize, the private

division has driven the way. Simultaneously, many of the employments of AI have been of

genuinely valuable to government. For instance, distinguishing patterns on Twitter is useful yet

not characteristically significant. Tasks exhibiting the intensity of new information and new

instruments, for example, utilizing AI calculations to beat human specialists at the game Go, or

to recognize the pervasiveness of feline recordings supporting some political up-and-comer, have

been some good ways from application to government ends [ CITATION San16 \l 1033 ]. In any

event, when they have been appropriate, regularly they have not been enough tried in the field

and the instruments worked from them have not been founded on a comprehension of the

requirements of end clients.

Countries such as Australia has formed well-defined data science plan that aims to provide

simple, intelligent and seem less services to their people. NSW data science policy includes

buying ICT, matters related to Cyber Security, Managing the Data & Information, ICT

Assurance and Enterprise Architecture. Whereas, United States’ Federal Data Strategy gives a
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typical arrangement of information standards and best practices in actualizing information

developments that drive more an incentive for general society. Even though it does not have any

specific law to govern the big data.

NSW Data Science Policies

NSW government has formed a policy landscape tool through which digital policy is navigated

and helps the government to look for gaps, priorities and improvements in the plan, enabling a

transparent digital government. Some of the digital policies are as follow;

Cyber Security

The requirements that are mandatory to be followed by Agency Heads, Chief Information

Security Officers, Chief Information Officers, Audit and Risk teams, including all the Executives

are Planning and Governance to hold committee responsible for handling risk and compliance.

Secondly, Cyber Security Culture and Awareness to increase awareness trainings and provide

access to information on need bases. Thirdly, Managing Cyber Security Risks and Resilience

against cyber-attack, followed by Report against the requirements which is to be submitted to the

agency head [ CITATION NSW152 \l 1033 ].

ICT Buying & Assurance

NSW Government offices evaluates cloud-based administrations when undertaking all ICT

acquirements. The choice on the suitable ICT conveyance model is founded on an appraisal of

the business case, counting the money saving advantage examination and accomplishing an

incentive for cash over the life of the venture, market contestability, effective engagement,

innovation, probity in government procurements and fairness. Public can have access to whole-

of-government contract, ICT service schemes or purchases upto $5,000.

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The NSW ICT Assurance Strategy is centered around driving increasingly organized and

productive ICT ventures which convey better open administrations and accomplish better an

incentive for cash. The NSW ICT Investment Policy and Guidelines (2014) expects offices to

exhibit arrangement with the NSW ICT Investment Principles, including as an administration

sourcing, in vital arranging and investment decisions.

Managing the Data & Information

The assortment, stockpiling, access, use and revelation of individual data is administered by

PPIPA and HRIPA. Where the utilization of distributed computing requires the transmission or

capacity of individual data, including wellbeing data, offices must guarantee that their plans

agree to applicable security and divulgence necessities [ CITATION Pol19 \l 1033 ]. Agencies

are not authorized to do anything, or take part in any training, that contradicts an Information

Protection Principle or a Health Privacy Principle applying to the agency.

Enterprise Architecture

NSW Government Enterprise Architecture (NSW GEA) quickens the advancement of big

business engineering ability over the division. Endeavor Architecture is a structure and arranging

discipline for business. It applies engineering standards and practices to direct associations

through the business, data, procedure and innovation changes important to execute their

methodologies.

With the help of the NSW Public Sector Capability Framework and the Skills Framework for the

Information Age (SFIA) together give the basic establishment apparatus to help the full scope of

workforce the executives systems and advancement exercises across NSW Government.

Undertaking existing and future practical and capacity examination will incorporate a wide
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appraisal of the asset level expected to convey each capacity just as workforce abilities and status

[ CITATION Pol19 \l 1033 ].

United States Data Science Plan

Cyber Security

The Department of cybersecurity works with key accomplices and partners to recognize and

oversee national digital security dangers. It is done by receiving an all-encompassing danger the

executive’s approach. Simultaneously, they look to decrease digital dangers by forestalling and

disturbing digital wrongdoings, and to diminish the outcomes of digital occurrences by

guaranteeing a powerful government reaction when proper. At last, they work to make

conditions for progressively viable digital hazard the executives through endeavors to make the

digital biological system more on a very basic level secure and versatile. This technique presents

the objectives, goals, and needs to effectively execute the full scope of the Secretary of

Homeland Security's digital security duties [ CITATION USD181 \l 1033 ].

ICT Buying & Assurance

In 2009, the ICT industry contributed $1 trillion to U.S. GDP

Federal Data Management

United States has a Federal data plan in place to leverage the value of the Federal data to a

greater extent. It includes mission statement, to articulate the true purpose of this strategy.

Furthermore, it has ten principles, forty practices and twenty action steps that are precisely and

clearly laid out that could be understood without any trouble. It guides offices on the most

proficient method to use the estimation of information, concentrating on Building a Culture that

Values Data and Promotes Public Use; Governing, Managing, and Protecting Data; and

Promoting Efficient and Appropriate Data Use. Indicate quantifiable exercises to execute the
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practices and that are the need for a given year, giving time spans to usage and recognizable

proof of people in question. [ CITATION Ove \l 1033 ].

Conclusion

It is quite evident that the NSW data science plan is highly organized, user-friendly and well

structured. All the information is available under one roof without facing the difficulty of

searching the data through various means. All the policies are well defined and in the lay man

terms and can be accessible by everyone. Whereas, United States policies even though are well

defined as well, but it is quite troublesome to look for it as its not under the same umbrella. You

must devote precious amount of time in order to search for the relevant and updated data and that

is too scattered over various platforms. Cyber Security and Data Management plans of both

nations are easily accessible and not difficult to understand. But, ICT policies of US is not

readily available for general public which makes it hard to have access to it. Government should

take the initiative to provide a platform that would hold complete information regarding US Data

Sciences policies and plans that people from every background could understand.

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