Dear nisha, I will be happy to come along and if you need institutional backing, I can get iimb and bpac to also formally request the same as we are internally working on these issues.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: 07-06-2014 05:54 To: Digest recipients Subject: [datameet] Digest for [email protected] - 4 updates in 1topic Today's topic summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/datameet/topics Data portals for cities through data.gov.in? [4 Updates] Data portals for cities through data.gov.in? srinivas kodali <[email protected]> Jun 06 06:22PM +0530 Hi, Our Open data policy makes it mandatory for ministries to categorize their department datasets into open-data or restricted and release them publicly. But the same is not true with city/municipal agencies. Most important datasets like public transport, financial spendings, pollution levels, water usage fall under state/municipal agencies. These are important datasets which need to be made public. Making local agencies release datasets through data.gov.in would bring data standards locally and also improve community participation. Think of it, bangalore.data.gov.in would be an interesting page to have. Pointing out the equivalent open-access pages across the world. Beijing - http://www.bjdata.gov.cn/ Seattle - https://data.seattle.gov/browse Chicago - https://data.cityofchicago.org/ Baltimore - data.baltimorecity.gov Honolulu - data.honolulu.gov Colorado - data.opencolorado.org Lexington - data.lexingtonky.gov Somerville - data.somervillema.gov Palo Alto - paloalto.opendata.junar.com Louisville - portal.louisvilleky.gov why not have similar ones for india, there is enough data around. Delhi has real-time pollution level monitored, real-time locations of buses, water usage data is available from water boards. What do we need for this to happen? Regards, Srinivas Kodali Nisha Thompson <[email protected]> Jun 06 12:05PM -0400 Srinivas, I agree we should have one! Can we get a few other people in teh Bangalore group together and start lobbying the NIC and bangalore to create one? STarting with meetings and letters with Bangalore stakeholders? THen see about who is interested in starting the conversation in other cities. Chennai might be movign toward a portal but I'm nto sure, I don't see why Bangalore can't have one or Delhi or Mumbai or PUne. Nisha On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:52 AM, srinivas kodali <[email protected]> wrote: -- Nisha Thompson DataMeet.org [email protected] skype: nishaqt mobile: 962-061-2245 srinivas kodali <[email protected]> Jun 06 11:09PM +0530 Nisha, You mentioned something about chennai is moving towards a portal, can u elaborate on that? Srinivas Nisha Thompson <[email protected]> Jun 06 02:15PM -0400 Data.gov.in mentioned a meeting with Tamil Nadu a while ago. I will try to follow up with them and see if there is a follow meeting, maybe DataMeeters in Chennai can attend. Nisha On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:39 PM, srinivas kodali <[email protected]> wrote: -- Nisha Thompson Mobile: 962-061-2245 -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- 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/d/optout.
