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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.
This is yet another long post. So give it time to load and take a big cup of coffee before start reading it. As most of you who follow me on twitter know that I am in Hyderabad. This Saturday me and my friend Achalesh decided to explore some parts of Hyderabad. We started with Golconda fort, it was great. In the evening we decided to visit old city for some chai.What else is better than char minar area for chai. Wanted to write this post from yesterday night. But didnt know what to write. 26/11 was just one of those incidents which got world (media) attention but I see one such happening every day. I go through various emotions every time I read about such violence. This post is not only for remembering 26/11 heroes but all those great souls which have fought against the violence from the beginning. I salute you all. To all others ಓಂ ಅಸತೋಮ ಸದ್ಗಮಯ, om asathoma sadgamaya Rough translation:
I hope it helps to somebody at least. Picture Credit: Wikipedia and FOSS.in |
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