I want to revive this topic again, where are we with the portals plan? Here is video where Navi Mumbai mayor talks on open-access
https://screen.yahoo.com/cisco-nmmc-logo-youtube-113031752.html Regards, Srinivas On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Satyarupa Shekhar < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am jumping into this conversation a little late but very excited to see > the excitement around city data portals! > > I lead the City Governance and Open Data Initiatives areas of work at > Transparent Chennai, Chennai. In February 2014, we signed a two-year MoU > with the city government to help develop a data portal and a dashboard to > help them use data for planning and monitoring. However, the focus is on > comprehensively improving their data management practices - from collection > to use, rather than solely on opening up their data. Transparent Chennai > also signed a second MoU in June 2014 to work with the city government to > create, collect and use data on urban poverty. In both MoUs, portals and > apps are planned outputs, but our efforts are directed to embedding the > capacity within the government to manage the entire process. > > We are looking to take these efforts to other cities in the country. I > would love to have more detailed conversations around interoperability, > privacy and other related issues with the community. We would also love to > get help on these projects on a full-time basis, so if anyone is keen > please do write to me. > > Best, > Satyarupa > > > On Saturday, 7 June 2014 07:32:11 UTC+5:30, sridhar pabbisetty wrote: > > 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. > > 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. > -- 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. 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