Re: [datameet] DataMeet team YOU ALL! Acknowledged in Economic Survey

There is a Ask Me Anything session with Arvind Subramanian on Facebook about the Economic Survey today at 7 p.m https://www.facebook.com/finmin.goi/ Regards, Srinivas Kodali www.lostprogrammer.com On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 4:35 PM, srinivas kodali wrote: > We highlighted

Re: [datameet] DataMeet team YOU ALL! Acknowledged in Economic Survey

We highlighted some points during the finance ministry pre budget ministry consultation. We were also hoping that opening up govt. data can create several small and medium scale businesses, which I am not sure if they have covered it. Regards, Srinivas Kodali www.lostprogrammer.com On Tue, Jan

Re: [datameet] DataMeet team YOU ALL! Acknowledged in Economic Survey

Thanks for sharing these specific sections. Because urban local bodies and institutions are spending heavy monetary amounts to digitize data, they are expecting ROIs and are trying to sell basic information. BMTC, Indian Railways and KSRTC are trying to sell real-time bus/train location

Re: [datameet] DataMeet team YOU ALL! Acknowledged in Economic Survey

Great stuff; thanks for helping advance this for everyone here! A question: what specific takeaways on the open data side do you see here? I saw one in the urban local bodies section (pasted below), but wasn't sure if there were others: " *14.27 Finally, data and transparency can play an