Open Data Pakistan

Open Data Pakistan is a cloud-based platform for data publishing and management. It is an initiative by the National Center for Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Higher Education Commission (HEC) to promote data-driven decision making in Pakistan. It is a collaborative effort to help provide open data to all kinds of users, such as researchers, policymakers, communities, and businesses alike. Open data is data that anyone can access, use and share. Governments, businesses, and individuals can use open data to bring about social, economic and environmental benefits. A major goal is to have all datasets of Pakistan on this portal; therefore, it is crucial for different institutions to sign up and publish data and visualizations. This open data portal can be used as a tool to disseminate raw data and information. The portal also aims to help unlock the value of data by being able to analyze it in machine-readable and open formats.