How the next step in literacy can make Singapore a Smart Nation

SINGAPORE (Sept 7): Hundreds of years ago, literacy was rare. The invention of the printing press resulted in more people reading as printed materials became available to a bigger part of the population. However, it wasn’t until books became widely available that literacy became widespread.

A similar evolution is happening in data analytics. Just as literacy is the ability to derive information from the written word, data literacy is about the ability to derive meaningful information from data. For decades, data analysts were the only ones who had access to, and could work with corporate data. They were the gatekeepers and anyone in the company who wanted access had to go through them. In today’s digital age where organisations see the value in their abundant data, coupled with modern business intelligence (BI) tools accessible to more people within an organisation, data analytics is no longer the domain of the specialist users.

Are we ready for the next step in literacy?

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