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Imagine raw data you will get to play around, its programmers heaven. Imagine the kind of mashups we can build with election results and geo data. As of today even though we have some kind of data on-line. Its very distributed, not open and of course not developer friendly. What we need today is an open data initiative, where GOI and state/local govts can publish data in a developer friendly format. Even though I am not an expert, by developer friendly I mean, open standard, online, search-able, semantic data. Unfortunately in India it might take years for Govt to come up with such a plan. So as active citizens, how can we force the govt to that? or should it be taken up by an NGO or Society? or should we the citizens start a simple community project of collecting and publishing data? Btw as an interim solution I am bookmarking all the Govt related data on delicious with #open-data-india. Feel free to tag/comment more about available data.
9 Comments posted on "Open Data in India"
» Blog post – Open Data in Indi… Thej Live on February 24th, 2010 at 11:10 AM #
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Hari on February 24th, 2010 at 11:23 AM #
 Having open data is a good idea, but privacy is something that is a concern. Even the sites in US or UK need to have some form of a privacy control so that not too much individual information is exposed. In a country like India, we should be careful even about the kind of data we expose because it can be used by anti social and terrorist elements. I remember seeing a website that showed the position of a train in near real time, this was owned or affiliated with the railways mind you, and that kind of info makes sense – we all have used such sites when we are abroad. But put it in the indian context of security concerns and misuse and it suddenly sounds scary. I dont mean to be a scaremonger but i feel perhaps we should first educate people on the importance of handling such data carefully and then put in place trip wires that can detect and mitigate possible threats arising out of the same.  Two friends of mine are meeting someone in the Govt in a couple of days, and I’ll see if we can start it off with at least one Ministry. In the meantime, why not set up a website and start off with it? To begin with, just adding links and organising it like a portal might do the job. And then we can add actual content.
CS Sharada Prasad on February 24th, 2010 at 1:21 PM #
 Thanks for this post guru. Keep updating delicious. Citizens / community may not always help in data collection of advanced form.
Utkarshraj Atmaram on February 24th, 2010 at 7:45 PM #
 Good effort! The Ministry of Statistics has a “National Data Bank”:
Akshay Surve on March 5th, 2010 at 6:53 AM #
 Thej, do take a look at http://OpenCivic.in :) We are a group of programmers unlocking gov data for other programmers!
Thejesh GN on March 5th, 2010 at 9:32 PM #
 @Akshay Surve : Thanks for the tip @akshay, we are looking at it. I will update you about it.  Thej, do take a look at http://OpenCivic.in :) We are a group of programmers unlocking gov data for other programmers!  Searching for OPen Data Initiatives in India and landed on this post by @thej =] http://bit.ly/aEAhRT same thoughts here! This comment was originally posted on Twitter Post a comment
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These days my work mainly involves around government data (or the data that I assume govt should provide). You must 
