Facilitates discoverability and incentivized exchange of datasets between distinct administrative bodies such as public sector departments and agencies.
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Categories |
Information discoverability, Incentivized information exchange |
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Development Stage |
PSIE prototype Development |
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Market |
Public sector departments and agencies |
Highlights
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A unique economic approach to address costly and embarrassing public information sharing failures
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Increased discoverability of crucial life-saving and money-saving public sector data that is currently impossible to find
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Incentivizing public sector agencies to share data so that they have an interest in making important data available to other agencies
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Decreasing inefficient, duplicative government information storing practices
Our Innovation
PSIE addresses the problems of data discoverability and incentives to share information inside the public sector. PSIE offers a network-based intermediary service that empowers agencies to discover useful datasets owned by other agencies and negotiate terms of dataset exchange. Intelligent software agents empower agencies to discover datasets and negotiate terms of exchange. PSIE can be integrated with existing data transfer protocols or can offer agencies its own data transfer solution to complete data transfer transactions.
Key Features
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Solution that addresses agency motivation to share data or not
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Addresses seemingly insolvable problem of “undiscoverable” public sector data
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Uses network-based service and intelligent software agents to facilitate data exchange and lower the cost of exchanging data inside a large agency or bureaucracy
The Opportunity
Can be employed across agencies or within a single agency to facilitate data discoverability and exchange.
Book
Peled, Alon Traversing Digital Babel - Information, E-Government, and Exchange (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2014].
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