Re: [datameet] Letter To ECI
Hey, My 2 bits on this - a) ODC and DataMeet Trust can be co-branded - they have the same origins and this is a good opportunity for the Trust to get some visibility through ODC. b) This letter is a bit long- I would recommend that you edit out some bits - especially about the backgrounds of the old ODCs and focus on the current one, mentioning Krishnamurthy's participation. On 27 March 2014 08:37, Nisha Thompson ni...@datameet.org wrote: 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. Regards Amrtha -- 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.
[datameet] State sanitation tracker
Hi, We have been working on creating a state level, rural sanitation tracker by collating government data from tsc.gov.in. This is done now and you can see coverage, finance and 2011 census information for every state/district! http://www.indiawaterportal.org/data-apps/#states Shout out to Gramener who are creating the visuals for us! Regards Amrtha -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] [Bangalore DataCamp] Themes - Recommendations for Speakers
Hi, One of the themes that may be relevant is - quality of government data and ways of public disclosure of data? While the government may be becoming more open to sharing data and also reach a stage where it may take ideas from experts who work on this data, the quality of the data and the way this data is presented need to be improved greatly for any efforts to make a significant contribution to development. Arghyam is currently looking at sanitation data published on the government's website and taking Gramener's help to analyse the data. We could talk about our experience in using the data, its relevance, quality etc. Regards Amrtha Kasturi Rangan Manager -Grants Arghyam #599, 12th Main, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Pin-560008 Website: Arghyam http://www.arghyam.org/,Indiawaterportalhttp://www.indiawaterportal.org/ On 11 January 2013 11:52, Nisha Thompson nisha.thomp...@gmail.com wrote: I want to thank the people who have registered and offered to volunteer. We are well on our way to a great event. However we definitely still need some input from the group. The following themes are what we will be Sustainable Development Through Data Privacy/security Relevance of Open Data Data for Activism Standardization It would be great if people can recommend projects, organizations or people that would be great to invite and have give talks. Sincerely, Nisha -- Nisha Thompson Mobile: 962-061-2245 -- 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, send email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. -- 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, send email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
