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
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