Hey Everyone, I want to start the discussion process for the ECI letter. I will hopefully be finishing the summary of the three track today.
There is some offlist debate of whether to mention DataMeet Trust and to put it on the letter head. I definitely think it is a worthy debate. How do we want to position the asks as we go further. What makes sense to put as the Trust and what is best as a group of individuals etc. I'm not particularly married to either. We have an ODC logo and can create letter head with that. I have written a draft with the DataMeet Trust language for people to see. I have put it as background you can read the letter below. Shekar will share his version just mentioning Open Data Camp and citizens. Let's take some time to deliberate this and then we can come up with language and hopefully send the letter and summary to them soon. Nisha To: Shri Alok Shukla (Deputy Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India) Shri V.N. Shukla (Director - IT, Election Commission of India) Election Commission of India, Nirvachan Sadan,Ashoka Road, New Delhi 110001 25 March 2014 Dear Sir: I am contacting you on behalf of DataMeet, a registered public trust in Bangalore which aims to promote a culture of open and public data sharing. Our online community of more than seven hundred members has been active on a weekly basis since 2011. The goal of the group is to promote opening up public data and promote its access and use. Since 2012 we have held meetings in Bangalore, New Delhi and Hyderabad and an annual Open Data Camp (ODC) with more than 150 participants from the education, business, technology and non-profit sectors in India. We have worked with the NIC's Data.Gov.In data portal to promote open formats and ask for various datasets through their request module. Mrs Alka Misra has attended several Open Data Camps and presented their work and interacted with our community around what data we think is important for the government to share. In the third annual Open DataCamp on 22-23 March 2014, we dedicated to exploring election data and how citizens can use it to understand the electoral process and create tools that help people gain access to essential voting information. We had former Chief Election Commissioner Shri T.N. Krishnamurthy deliver the keynote address and discuss his time with the Election Commission. During this event we made a list of data that if the Election Commission released in a more open format would provide more transparency and access to this essential information. 1)Post 2009, Parliamentary and Assembly Constituency boundaries in GIS and XML files [*], Sir, we understand you are very busy at this important time. We salute your work, and sincerely appreciate your website which is a valuable public resource for understanding Indian elections. We sincerely request the Commissioners to publish online the current geospatial datasets for electoral constituencies in India. [*] http://web.archive.org/web/20090619071516/http://eci.nic.in/GisLayers/gis_layers.asp -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.