Tagged: Open Data

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Triggering Innovation by Opening up Govt Data

I was at Takshashila’s Shaping India’s Growth Agenda: Implications for the World conference listening to Innovation panel. The main debate revolved around what should Government do to catalyze the innovation in India. There were obvious suggestions like funding, policy support, taxation and not being a hindrance to business etc to increase the innovation....

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HappyTuesday Week 3 – CitizenMatters

I have never written about CitizenMatters before, it seems very strange. CitizenMatters as they define is a Bangalore focused, citizen-oriented news-magazine, covering city public affairs, community and culture. They do a great job of it. Its run by Oorvani Foundation which is also behind IndiaTogether. They have been a great supporter of Open...

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HappyTuesday Week 2 – Coimbatore City Data

Most of my Tuesday went into baby sitting my nephew and niece. I must tell you its lot of work. Babies and computers dont go together that well. I got an hour or so to work the project I started last week. I am done with the code required to scrape the Coimbatore...

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Watch Now – Internet’s Own Boy – Free CC Download

I am very happy that I came across this project and was able to contribute to it. Given the amount of data scraping I do, you can imagine how close this story is to my heart. Watch it on vimeo on demand if possible. You can download the cc licensed version using bittorrent...

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HappyTuesday Week 1 – Scraping the Web continues

Notes from my first ever HappyTuesdays. I couldn’t get to sit at HappyBelly Cafe, it seems they open only at 10am. Instead I went to french loaf. I sat outside under the green, I really liked it, weather was awesome. I continued my work on earlier scraping projects Fixed bugs and updated the...

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Crowdsourced data collection for legal activism

Environment support group in Bangalore is fighting a legal case against BBMP about tree planting. I got to know about this case late in the evening. From a friend who had read about my previous attempts at mapping the trees using ODK. What we need Bangaloreans to do: Please download the document accessible...