Dear Nagarajan, It is great to see the interest in opening up the government data. That would certainly help us understand lot of things. I'm trying to answer both of your questions.
*1. how a district collector can open up his office data and make it accessible?* There can be data of two kinds, (a) Data in ledger and (b) Data available in electronic form. Opening up of the data depends on what form the data is available currently. (a) The data present in just ledgers (not as e-copy) can be difficult to share. To share it, it has to be converted into electronic from. A XML based representation of a database representation of the data can be created. Then the XML/database dump's can be made available to download by putting them on some sites. Even though this is a high effort task, it is worth doing as the* data analysis can give many insights* to the people and administrators as well. (b) The data present in electronic form (data entered in computer) is in some proprietary softwares provided to governments. Many such software do provide options to export the data into files (csv or XML). Once the data is exported to these formats, you can host these on some website and let people download them. *2. Would you be happy to analyse data sets on free houses to poor, social benefits data, NREGA works data?* We would be really ahppy to analyse these datasets, if they are provided to us. I believe that there are quite a few people with similar interest to analyse such data sets. The analysis, for sure will give some totally not obvious insights, which can, hopefully, be helpful to implement the schemes better. However, the insights will be as good as the data we get. If we get unaltered, complete data, we might be able to give better insights about it. Regards, SUmant On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Nagarajan M <[email protected]>wrote: > Friends, > > I recently joined the datameet group and following emails. > > I am glad that you are considering exploring the Govt initiatives. As an > officer in Government I will be happy to get the information required by > the group to help you understand and contribute. > > I have some initial questions to work on in the previous mail. If there > are anymore things I can help on I will gladly try. > > Apart from release of data sets we can try to build tools that enable > opening up data at department and office levels. For example how a > district collector can open up his office data and make it accessible. What > tools he will need. > > Would you be happy to analyse data sets on free houses to poor, social > benefits data, NREGA works data....the list is endless. > > Opengov can work only if we all work together. > > Thanks, > > Nagarajan M, IAS > On Aug 27, 2012 3:12 PM, "Nisha Thompson" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I’m glad you brought up the NIC’s data.gov.in. >> >> >> >> I think we should try to get a Q&A session with them to see if they can >> 1) walk us through the new site, 2) allow for us to have a public place for >> feedback and complaints, 3) see if there are any joint projects we can do >> with them for their launch (hackathon etc) >> >> >> >> This the contact information for them: >> >> [email protected] >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> I believe the datasets are supposed to be ready soon. >> >> >> >> They are also on this list. So feel free to respond to this mail. >> >> >> >> Nisha >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Ankur Nagar <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Speaking of Open Data on India - has anyone peeked into >>> http://data.gov.in/ <http://data.gov.in/community/developer> beta? >>> (runs of course on OGPL >>> http://www.**opengovplatform.org/<http://www.opengovplatform.org/> >>> ) >>> >>> - Ankur >>> https://finances.worldbank.org >>> @ankur_nagar >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, August 25, 2012 5:08:20 PM UTC-4, Pranesh Prakash wrote: >>> >>>> Gautam John [2012-08-23 10:53]: >>>> > There is also http://ckan.org/ >>>> >>>> OKF has split CKAN into two: the software <http://ckan.org> and a open >>>> data >>>> repository / hub <http://thedatahub.org> that runs on CKAN. So you'd >>>> want >>>> to check out the latter. >>>> >>>> ~ Pranesh >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Pranesh Prakash · Programme Manager · Centre for Internet and Society >>> >>> @pranesh_prakash · PGP ID 0x1D5C5F07 · http://cis-india.org >>>> >>>> -- >>> 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 >>> [email protected]. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> [email protected]. >> >> >> > -- > 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 > [email protected]. > > > -- Regards, Sumant -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. 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