Government open data

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the importance of the idea of ‘e-governance’ including open data platforms. However, maintaining the open data platforms has remained mainly a manual process. Governments now often need to update, track, monitor, analyse and present data in real-time. This can be a challenge when most of the data entry and report preparation is done manually. As a result, there are inconsistencies and contentions to reported numbers that reach the media. The pandemic and its consequent crisis have uncovered and highlighted this issue more than anything else in the past.