I dont have good organized thoughts around data collection and accessibility (and I dont blog on open data; planning to write on energy data) but it is something I woke up to again in the last few months in my business conversations. I havent spent as much time in governance/non-profit space. Take it FWIW:
1. Even the biggest companies I met struggle to collect, organize, and understand basic data. I found that even basic excel cannot be assumed. And these are engineering companies with names that you all are familiar with. So the direction in which my own work is evolving towards simplicity and working with existing processes. The technology platform etc comes into picture once the data is accessible. Even basic technology (excel) will go a long way IMO. My own thinking on open data is that we should spend more time thinking about the collection and accessibility of data (all aspects). The opendata protocols etc. have a place but in India we have more fundamental problems, I think. 2. I also found an interesting cultural gap between the people who collect data and the managers who consume it. These are two different communities (castes? education and income levels? geographies?) that dont necessarily talk to each other. So it seems to me that questions like what data? to what end? are arising even at the micro level. -Venkata On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:11 AM, satyaakam goswami <satyaa...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Venkata Pingali <ping...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I meant coordination process. Many tasks involving data (esp collection) >> tend to be time consuming. I did a bunch of that in my previous life >> (lots of calls, emails, travel, campaigns etc.). It is hard to do it now. >> > > Yes it is would be great to hear about and learn more on this topic any > day , do you blog about it some place it would be easy and much more less > time consuming that way i suppose. > > -Satya > > -- > 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. > > > -- 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.
