Hi Devdatta and Avinash,
yes, I, too, am frankly surprised at the ease with which one can access
sensitive data in bulk. Not only PDF rolls and voter details, but also
things such as land records, BPL lists, and much more - I think we are
in an exciting as well as dangerous phase of fairly
Leaving aside my earlier comment as perhaps tongue in cheek, the
electoral rolls are *meant* to be public. The Registration of Electors
Rules, 1960 makes that clear. However, your larger point is well made.
Maybe what needs to be done is to *de-centralise* the storage? That
fulfils the
Raphael, you raise very pertinent issues.
We as a community love open data and in this country there is a lot that
can be done to free all kinds of data so that it can be made use of in a
good way (election data in an aggregated form is one example). But at the
same time there are certain kinds
Hi Gautam
I dont think the issue is with having the electoral roll available publicly
per se. personally, i think its better that the rolls are available in the
open, as compared with the alternative, where it is confidential, thus
leaving it open to other types of abuses.
But i do think that
Chandrashekhar,
just on the specific issues of targeting communities, which I have
thought about a great deal (my first book was on post-2002 Gujarat), my
tentative conclusion is this:
The fact that electoral rolls had been used in the past in riots before
they were available online shows that
Hi all,
there is a good comparison of CC vs ODBl when applied to data at
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data
also, any specific reason to use CC 2.0? There are CC 4.0 licenses
already, arguably more developed (and also more suitable for data, see
link above)...
My
Additional advantage of ODbl is that different parts of a compound
dataset can have different licenses, which makes it easier for pulling
together stuff from different sources.
On 11.04.2014 09:50, Thejesh GN wrote:
We can use CC-BY-SA-4.0 for artifacts. It looks better and has
everything
Raphael, To clarify, i am not trying to make a case against availability of
fine grained data, far from it i'm with you on this argument among others
that are made spuriously to restrict access. I might have stretched the
point but then again - killing is just one extreme form of discrimination -
Hi all
We are making a project on sanitation and need a kml file for Delhi to project
District wise distribution of population versus percentage of households with
toilets.
It would be great if someone could could tell us how to source Delhi's map
through Google geocoding.
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