Last Monday, various people from DataMeet went and met with the Data.Gov.Inteam for a day.
Thej, Pranesh Prakash, Zainab, Sumandro, Gautam John, Laina Emmanuel and I went and presented our feedback for the site as well as for the governing policy National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP). I have attached the note we wrote of our feedback, . We met with Alka Mishra and DP Misra from Data.Gov.IN and presented our thoughts to Dr. Shiv Kumar from Department of Science and Technology, who is the main sponsor of the policy. We wanted to convey to them that there is demand for an open data site and that we want it to succeed but the policy doesn't address all our concerns. The presentation went well. We went through our concerns and how data.gov.inis implementing the NDSAP. They were positive about several of these aspects and also were aware of some of the issues. While a policy change is somewhat unlikely, we were told that in the implementation guidelines our suggestions can be incorporated. Detailed notes about the conversation will be following shortly. They also stated that now they need communities like ours to work on creating apps and visualizations with this data so that they have good examples to show to Ministries when they question why should they share data. We said we would work with them on requesting data, sharing it, and also on hackathons and projects to showcase what can be done with open data. They will be coming to Open DataCamp and participating in the hackathon on the 2nd day. It was a positive meeting overall and the first of many interactions. I feel that if we continue to meet with their team whenever there is an opportunity then we can get some real movement and also more valuable data. So let's use this thread to look at data.gov.in and see what else from an implementation side can be done. Also the biggest ask they had was for us to spend some time and use the platform to request data.< http://data.gov.in/suggest_dataset> This is so they can demonstrate demand for this data. Again detailed notes will be coming soon. 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 and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
NDSAP Feedback -v2.doc
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