Bangkok city data center: the study for proposing development plan

Abstract

Big data and data analytics are integral parts of a smart city and smart city administration. Therefore, the city data center, a platform for storing, processing and analyzing city data as well as providing data related services, is indispensable if a city is aspiring to achieve an expected level of smartness. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has envisioned the future Bangkok city to be a smart metropolis and its organization to become a smart entity. Accordingly, it initiated a project called ‘the study and development plan of Bangkok city data center’ to set up the optimal way to develop the city data center of Bangkok.  It is prescribed that the Bangkok city data center will be the warehouse of all Bangkok data available from any agency, the open data platform accessible by all people, and an intelligence unit supporting operations of BMA departments, other public agencies and businesses. The project consists of 2 parts: the research and the proposal of the development plan. The research is carried out through a set of questions that are necessary for developing the proposal.  Through the process, 3 study findings are realized, including (1) factors contributing to the development of the Bangkok city data center, (2) the required features of the Bangkok city data center and (3) a development framework.  The findings are fundamental for developing the proposal of the development plan of the Bangkok city data center.