The path to government digitalisation is spatially led in NSW.

The Australian state of New South Wales yesterday revealed its new Digital Strategy, and it features a host of new spatial innovations.

Victor Dominello, the NSW Minister for Finance, Services and Property released the strategy in Sydney ahead of the annual CeBIT technology show. Among many new features are a number of spatially-enabled real time services that integrate data feeds from across different agencies.

Minister Dominello identified four key enablers of the Digital Strategy: Technology, Cyber Security, Legislation and Regulation and Delivery Capability. He also detailed four spatially-led examples of new digital services to be released by the state government.

The NSW Trends service will be a ‘one-stop shop’ for real-time public data, including crime data, power meters and hospital wait times.

NSW Live will let anyone access trends in a real-time data feed to discover “exactly what is going on across NSW on a map in real-time.” The public will also be encouraged to contribute data to the platform, Dominello said.

He described the new dMarketplace as the “TripAdvisor for data”. dMarketplace will be an interactive marketplace for data sharing, including a rating scheme for data sources.

A new NSW Pulse website will also see how services are being delivered in real time. It will also plot incidents that have occurred in the last 72 hrs, such as emergency services and traffic incidents. These data sources will be plotted on a real-time “pulse” map suited for rapid response.

Minister Dominello demonstrates the new NSW Pulse service for real-time mapping.

Dominello indicated that all of these services will be offered up as open government data.

More information on these new service along with full Digital Strategy are available from digital.NSW. Dominello referenced these new services and the popular Fuel Check app, as proof that the NSW Government is the leading state for innovation.

Dominello’s colleague, Matt Kean MP, the NSW Minister for Innovation echoed Dominello’s claim that the state government was a national leader in innovation.

“People often say government involvement stifles innovation, but nothing could be further from the truth in NSW,” he said.

“Our state has the largest technology sector and highest number of technology start-ups in Australia.”