It will certainly be useful to have a similar central portal for Nepal. The challenge lies more in motivating individual agencies (and citizens) to make their data available via the portal rather than developing the portal itself.
National Information Technology Center, within the Ministry of Science and Technology, has a good opportunity to take a coordinating role on this. They might already be doing some thing alone this direction, but they need to intensify it, I guess! Hope there are people in this list from that organization. Nama On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Himanshu <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone, > http://data.gov is an interesting project that encourages people to > download datasets and databases about all sorts of data related mostly to > the US and some of global concern; eg: latest earthquake data which is > encouraged to be used by people for everything from research to building > web/mobile apps. Maybe on a smaller scale we can put up a page somewhere > linking to such raw data and research resources but in the context of Nepal? > Maybe even data.gov might have datasets relevant to Nepal. Also I am sure > there must be tons of research academic papers analyzing various economic, > social etc areas about Nepal. > > Does anyone think there could be benefit in a central location for links or > even direct downloads for data/research about Nepal? Any thoughts on how we > can go about collaborating on this? Wiki / Github repository etc? > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nama R. Budhathoki, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, McGill University, Canada http://budhathoki.wordpress.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
