India Open Data Portal (ODDC Asia Regional Meeting presentations)

Open Data Initiative , Government of India :

Strategy & Potential Impact

Neeta VermaDeputy Director GeneralNational Informatics Centre DeitY, Government of India

neeta@nic.in

National Data Sharing & Accessibility Policy (NDSAP)

• NDSAP was formulated through an extensive process of consultation. It was gazette notified on 17th March 2012

• NDSAP mandates all Ministries/Departments to release maximum possible datasets in the public domain

• NDSAP is applicable to• All sharable non-sensitive data• Government Ministries, Departments,

& Associated Offices

Full Text at http://data.gov.in

Open Data India: Implementation Strategy

Data Managers

• Senior Government officers

• To drive open data in respective depts/ orgns

NDSAP Cell• domain, data

analyst, technology

• Assist in compile, collation , conversion & publishing datasets on data portal in open format

Data Formats, Metadata Schema, Guidelines…

• Data Quality, Accessibility, Standardization

Workshops, Seminars, Stakeholder Engagement

• Sensitization , Capacity bldg.

• Citizen Engagement (online)

• Community Contests,

Data Portal India: Features

Open Government Platform (OGPL)

DATA PORTAL INDIA : Visualization Service

DATA PORTAL INDIA : data.gov.in

• Facilitates Citizen Engagement

• Rate Data Sets

• Comment on quality of Datasets

• Embed Datasets in

Website, Blogs, Social Media Pages

• Provision to Suggest Datasets

• Communities of Specific Interest

DATA PORTAL INDIA : data.gov.in

Open Government Data : Potential Impact

Transparency

Accountability

Citizen Engagement

Collaboration

Better Governance

Better Decision making

Innovation