There is a Ask Me Anything session with Arvind Subramanian on Facebook about the Economic Survey today at 7 p.m
https://www.facebook.com/finmin.goi/ Regards, Srinivas Kodali www.lostprogrammer.com On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 4:35 PM, srinivas kodali <iota.kod...@gmail.com> wrote: > We highlighted some points during the finance ministry pre budget ministry > consultation. We were also hoping that opening up govt. data can create > several small and medium scale businesses, which I am not sure if they have > covered it. > > Regards, > Srinivas Kodali > www.lostprogrammer.com > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 4:19 PM, srinivas kodali <iota.kod...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks for sharing these specific sections. Because urban local bodies >> and institutions are spending heavy monetary amounts to digitize data, they >> are expecting ROIs and are trying to sell basic information. BMTC, Indian >> Railways and KSRTC are trying to sell real-time bus/train location >> information instead of making it freely available and improving >> transparency, accountability and service operations. >> >> Regards, >> Srinivas Kodali >> www.lostprogrammer.com >> >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Raman Chima <ramanch...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Great stuff; thanks for helping advance this for everyone here! >>> >>> A question: what specific takeaways on the open data side do you see >>> here? I saw one in the urban local bodies section (pasted below), but >>> wasn't sure if there were others: >>> >>> " >>> *14.27 Finally, data and transparency can play an important role here.* >>> >>> *• MoUD should give greater priority to compile and publish >>> comprehensive data on ULBs and urban sector. Perhaps, grants to ULBs should >>> be more tightly linked to comprehensive and updated data disclosure and >>> transparency by ULBs. * >>> *• NITI Aayog should compile comparative indices of municipalities’ >>> performance annually based on the actual accountability and administrative >>> capacity to deliver the core public services*. " >>> >>> On 31 January 2017 at 15:24, Nisha Thompson <ni...@datameet.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Economic Survey is done and the acknowledgment page has a few familiar >>>> names and also a big mention to the entire DataMeet community! >>>> >>>> A big thank you to this entire community for proving that openness and >>>> sharing of data is important! >>>> >>>> http://finmin.nic.in/indiabudget2017-2018/es2016-17/eacknowl >>>> edgements.pdf >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Nisha Thompson >>>> DataMeet.org >>>> ni...@datameet.org >>>> skype: nishaqt >>>> mobile: 962-061-2245 >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >>>> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >>>> --- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >>> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >>> --- >>> 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. >>> >> >> > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- 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.
