Nisha, Srini, Open Data for Cities is a topic that I happen to have invested some time on as part of my day job. I should have a bunch of presentations PDF on the benefits of the same from my old days which i would be happy to share. If you want to do this in India, I suspect this is something a few corporates would also be interested in.
Also there are a couple of companies which are very good at doing this for cities - Socrata comes to mind immediately - I have talked to these folks a couple of times - they have a good hosted solution and a very impressive list of references (almost all major US cities in that list). net net.. If there is a team that is getting organically formed to look deeper into it, i would love to be a part of it regards cs On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Nisha Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, >> >> You mentioned something about chennai is moving towards a portal, can u >> elaborate on that? >> >> Srinivas >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Nisha Thompson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. 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