Data

• [New] The EU MRV will be parallel with the IMO Data Collection System for ships calling at EU ports, effectively making two data reporting regimes to comply with.
• [New] The United States will modernize data systems and establish global early warning and trigger systems to prevent, detect, and respond to emerging biological threats.
• [New] HHS will optimize data collection from public and private entities to increase the availability of data by race, ethnicity, geography, disability and other sociodemographic variables, as feasible.
• [New] The United States will expand use of demographic data to identify and assist hard-hit communities - including communities of color, immigrant communities, and Indigenous and rural communities - as well as track vaccine resource distribution and evaluate vaccination campaign effectiveness.
• [New] Nearly three-quarters of companies expect the effective use of data to have an increasing impact on their profitability over the next three years.
• [New] By the end of 2024, 75% of enterprises will operationalize AI, driving a 5 x increase in streaming data and analytics infrastructures.
• [New] In the coming decade, cloud will enable decentralized data architectures that make domain knowledge workers first-class citizens, collapsing the elapsed time required to monetize data products and services.
• [New] 2021 will be the year that data separates organizations from their competitors more than ever, and the ability to unlock, analyse, and act on data will become foundational to growth.
• [New] San Francisco-based Cruise, whose valuation rose to $30 billion, plans to leverage Microsoft's Azure to handle the immense amount of data that needs to be collected to operate autonomous vehicles at scale.
• [New] South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act, which comes into force in July 2021, will likely yield prompt more reports of data breaches, as organisations implement systems to ensure compliance.
• [New] Organizations have gravitated toward predictive analytics in the last several years, as they use data to anticipate future trends and needs.
• [New] In 2021 and beyond, traditional means of controlling data will be less and less effective, as employees spread critical data and information across multiple platforms - some authorised, some not, and nearly all less visible to the security function.
• [New] National ownership of data innovations for SDG monitoring - Data innovation projects to help implement and monitor the 2030 Agenda will not survive very long without country ownership and funding.
• [New] While source data, data integration, and data access used to form a coherent stack, the stacks in 2021 will be expanding to include data analytics, data science, a data catalog, workload management, deployment and security components.
• [New] Network, data and endpoint security are the three leading use cases of AI in cybersecurity today, with each predicted to get more funding in 2021.
• [New] Data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project reveal that insurgent activities have increased in Niger in the past few years.
• [New] Google wound up having a series of commitments in Europe and other countries pledging that it will not use the health and fitness data from the 29 million users of Fitbit to sell more advertisements.
• [New] The Victorian Government will be matching test data and permit data to ensure arrivals from orange zones get tested.
• [New] As customer behavioral data becomes easier to acquire, you can expect to see more e-commerce businesses using online data to shape their in-store experience in 2021.
• 2021 will be a year of opportunity to innovate and learn how to use data and technology to support efforts to fight financial crime.
• In the U.S., the new FAA infrastructure will support critical National Airspace System services like air and ground control voice communication, radar, data and flight services.
• The post-COVID - 19 economic environment might make it easier to hire people with some of the critical skills companies will need in the coming years, such as in data science and IoT engineering.

Last updated: 24 January 2021