China-designed big data system aids Angola’s intelligent governance

By Gu Yekai from People’s Daily

 

Thanks to a modernized, digitalized and intelligent big data system designed by Chinese company, Angola, a country located in southwest Africa, has embraced for a more smart and scientific governance, and provided its residents with moreconvenience .

 

With beautiful landscape and abundant resources, Angola is known as the “the Brazil of Africa”. Despite huge potential and broad prospects for development, the country lagged behind in population management, posing a series of challenges to its economic development and social governance.

 

For example, due to the lack of assessment on its population resources, it is hard for the Angolan government to make scientific and reasonable economic plans. In addition, with inadequate knowledge of the distribution of domestic impoverished population, it is difficult to decide on the place to  receive financial aid.

 

Given such circumstance, Chinese big data and artificial intelligence (AI) provider Percent Corporation, in June 2017, built an intelligent system used for information visualization and data analysis for decision making for the Angolan government. Before this, it was difficult to consult and manage the national population information as it was mainly recorded on paper.

 

The big data system can accurately and dynamically record data about the full life cycle of birth, education, marriage and social security of the local people as well as their biometric information such as fingerprints and facial images, laying a foundation for smart governance.

 

Big data provides a smart solution to scientific matching of social and livelihood resources. It can dynamically simulate the specialties and quantity of medical staffs and hospital grades by analyzing the current demand for medical resources.

 

Big data is also able to help the government reasonably plan the location and scale of schools by region through predicting the sizes of school-age population at all stages of education. Now, some of Angola’s government employees have mastered the skills of using the system after a training held in China not long ago.

 

The modernized, digitalized and intelligent decision-making system marks Angola’s pioneering utilization of big data in national governance. It not only makes the government well-grounded in making decisions, but also offers the locals with intelligent and convenient life.

 

The data and deduction of the system not only bring together the world’s cutting-edge data science and modeltechniques , but also the powerful forces of scientific and technological exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.

 

In five years after the proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative, China-built bridges, roads and ports have brought vitality to countries and regions participating in the campaign. Meanwhile, China is bringing more and more data, models and systems to other countries to boost their economic and social development.

 

 

“大数据”发挥大作用

人民日报记者 谷业凯

 

安哥拉共和国位于非洲西南部，风景秀丽、资源丰富，有“非洲的巴西”之称。安哥拉有巨大的潜力和广阔的发展前景，但是在人口管理方面却相对滞后，给本国的经济发展和社会治理带来了一系列挑战：缺少人口资源的预期和评估，难以制定科学合理的经济规划；不了解贫困人口的分布情况，难以掌握救助物资应该在何处发放……

 

2017年6月，中国的大数据和人工智能技术与应用服务商百分点为安哥拉政府搭建了一套可视化国家中心数据分析和决策系统。过去，安哥拉大部分人口信息都记录在纸上，查阅、管理都很困难。有了这套系统，国家级的人口库大数据平台能准确地动态记录当地人口出生、教育、婚姻、社保等全生命周期的数据以及指纹、人脸等生物信息数据，成为当地智慧政务的基础。

 

大数据为社会民生资源的科学匹配带来了一把智能“钥匙”。在疾病防控方面，分析现阶段人口对医疗资源的需求情况，就能对医护人员的专业和数量、医院的等级等进行在线动态模拟；在教育方面，预测未来小学、中学等各教育阶段的适龄人数，就能按地域合理规划学校的位置和规模……前不久，安哥拉政府的工作人员还到中国进行了培训，大多数人都已熟练掌握了系统应用的各项技能。

 

现代化、数据化、智能化的决策系统成为安哥拉数据治国的首创，它不仅让政府的决策有据可依，也让当地百姓的生活智慧便捷。数据和推演背后，汇集了世界前沿的数据科学和模型技术，更汇聚了科技交流、文明互鉴的强劲力量。“一带一路”倡议提出5年来，中国桥、中国路、中国港等正让“一带一路”建设参与国焕发出勃勃生机，同时，更多的中国数据、中国模型、中国系统等也正扬帆出海，为当地的经济社会发展做出贡献。