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The big data opportunity
Chris Yiu, Policy Exchange’s Head of Digital Government, sets out the opportunities big data presents for transforming the provision of public services. Chris highlights the importance in ensuring that public sector leaders and staff are literate in the scientific method and confident in using big data in order to unlock its full potential.

Where next for open data?
Policy Exchange Head of Digital Government Chris Yiu argues for making non-personal public data open by default. He identifies three main obstacles to open data in the UK: embedding the presumption to publish data, unlocking core reference data in its entirety and staying strategic.

Chris Yiu: We need new ways of solving the familiar problem of the revenue tax gap
Following the release of The Big Data Opportunity author and Head of Digital Chris Yiu outlines how the use of data could help the government increase tax revenues in a blog for Conservative Home.

Apps for citizens
Policy Exchange’s Digital Government team, Chris Yiu and Sarah Fink, outline the discussion from a recent Policy Exchange roundtable ‘Apps for Citizens’. The event explored what the government’s ‘digital-by-default’ proposals for public services, coupled with the desire of external developers to innovate in the space between citizens and the state, means for public policy?