troublesome need for sampling and promotes an investigative approach to data, in contrast to the
somewhat static nature of running predetermined reports contained in data bases.
However Big Data and M2M communications comes with many challenges such as data of high
volume, high velocity, high variety and veracity which requires new forms of processing to enable
enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization., privacy and data ownership,
authenticity and security of different kinds of data, skills scarcity, and changing the attitudes of data
professionals.
18.3.1
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Policy objectives
Develop policy and legislation on information privacy and data ownership;
Standards on encryption technologies for M2M communications;
Government data consolidation;
National addressing policy; and
Policy around accessibility of geo-location data.
18.3.2 Strategies
The Government will:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Develop a Big Data Strategy in consultation with stakeholders;
Promote and accelerate the development, utilization and sharing of big data.
Promote the construction of a national big data platform and big data centres
Boost and promote big data collection, storage, processing, analysis, visualization and other
key technologies while upgrading big data technology infrastructure;
(e) Promote big data commercialization as well as the development of hardware and software
products for big data applications.
18.4 Over the Top Services (OTTs) and Net Neutrality
Introduction
Over-the-top (OTT) is a general term for services utilized over a network that is not offered by that
network operator. It's often referred to as "over-the-top" because these services ride on top of the
other services and don't require any business or technology affiliations to the network operator. Often
there are similarities to the service network operators’ offer and the over-the-top provider offers.
Both telecommunications and broadcast infrastructure has adapted over the last 20 years to be
carrying data packets for internet distribution. OTT services operate by using these networks as packet
transport networks to deliver content between devices, so that the network operator carries the
packets but has no real visibility or charging authority over the service.
For instance the OTT messaging and voice services, offer a service that emulates the SMS and mobile
voice services offered by Mobile network operators, yet the service is mainly used on a mobile device
using data networks to deliver the packets.
Over the Top services run globally across the whole internet. They include both free services and paid
services. As a result OTT services form a significant challenge to traditional telecoms operators by
competing with traditional voice, messaging and video services that are charged to the consumer and
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