Abstract:On the basis of fully considering the gaps in the current research on pilot policies in terms of policy implementation effects and promotion evaluation as well as the lack of universal methodology, this paper proposes a universal theoretical model for the extension evaluation of pilot policies based on the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework in terms of the action arena, external variables, interaction patterns, evaluation criteria, and results of pilot policies. On this basis, this paper takes the pilot policies of the National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone (Guizhou) as an example to carry out a case study and make an assessment of its policy promotion in seven aspects: big data system innovation, data center integration and utilization, data resource sharing and opening, big data innovation and application, big data industry aggregation, big data resource circulation, and big data international cooperation. This paper concludes that except for the measures of data center integration and utilization and international cooperation of big data, which are suitable for promotion at the regional level, other policy measures can be promoted at the national level. This paper concludes with policy recommendations to continuously promote big data system innovation, data resource sharing and openness, big data innovation and application, big data industry clustering and big data resource circulation, encourage big data exchange and cooperation, and prudently implement data center construction.