Open Government Data for Transparency & Innovation

Open Government Data for Transparency & Innovation

Presented by: Mrs Neeta Verma, Deputy

Director General, NIC

National Informatics Centre, DeitY,

April 2015

Open data is machine readable data

that can be

used, reused and redistributed

by anyone


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NDSAP was Gazette notified on 17th March 2012

Objective of the Policy

To facilitate the access to Government of India owned

shareable data and information in both human readable and

machine readable forms through a network all over the

country in a proactive and periodically updatable manner,

within the framework of various related policies, Acts and

rules of Government of India, thereby permitting a wider

accessibility and use of public data and information

NDSAP: National Data Sharing & Accessibility Policy


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Scope of the Policy

The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy will apply

to all data and information created, generated, collected

and archived using public funds provided by Government

of India directly or through authorized agencies by

various Ministries/Departments/Organizations/ Agencies

and Autonomous bodies.


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Benefits of Policy

Maximising use: Ready access to government owned data will enable more

extensive use of a valuable public resource for the benefit of the community.

Avoiding duplication: By sharing data the need for separate bodies to

collect the same data will be avoided resulting in significant cost saving in

data collection.

Maximised integration: By adopting common standards for the collection

and transfer of data, integration of individual data sets may be feasible.

Ownership information: The identification of owners for the principal data

sets provide information to uses to identify those responsible for

implementation of prioritized data collection programs and development of

data standards.

Better decision-making: Data and information facilitates making important

decisions without incurring repetitive costs. Ready access to existing valuable

data is essential for many decision making task such as protecting the

environment, development planning, managing assets, improving living

conditions, national security and controlling disasters.

Equity of access: A more open data transfer policy ensures better access to

all bonafide users.


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Department of Science & Technology (DST)

•Nodal functions of coordination and monitoring of the policy

National Informatics Centre, DeitY

• Implementing Agency• Formulate Implementation guidelines, technology & standards

for data & metadata• Design, Develop & Manage Open Government Data Platform

(data.gov.in)• Facilitate Identification & Publishing of datasets in Consultation

with Depts

Ministry/ Departments…..

• Nominate a Nodal Officer (as Data Controller)

• Setup NDSAP Cell

• Prepare Negative List

• Create Action Plan for regular release of datasets

• Monitor and Manage the Open Data Programme for their domain



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Government Departments :

• Sensitization Workshops

• Meetings/ Demonstrations

• Capacity building Seminars

Citizens :

Online Engagement

• Suggest

• Rate

• Share

Community :

Developers, Civil Society, Data Enthusiasts

• Open House

• Hackathons

• Dev Challenges

• Data Events

OGDI: Stakeholder Engagement


April 2015

OGPL: An Open Source Platform

Built using Open Source Software

Source Code is also available in Open Domain

Built through Collaboration of National Informatics Centre,

India & Data.gov, USA for Knowledge Sharing and Technical

Exchange during 2011 for developing an Open Data

Platform using Open Source Tools and Technologies


April 2015

Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India


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April 2015

Open Data India: Implementation Status

103 Data Controllers have been nominated

14,390 Datasets

under 3519 catalogs by 87 departments

478 Visualizations have been created

Datasets

2.98 Million times viewed &

1.23 Million times downloaded

49,545

registered users

13,933

requests for APIs have been received


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April 2015

OGDI: Anyway Connect

Suggest Datasets

30% requests catered

Directly Write to Data Controller (provider)

View data thru

visualizations, apps, mash-ups, etc.

Service to Embed Catalogs in Websites,

Blogs, etc.

Rate Data Sets Quality, Usability

Social Media Connectors

Access Datasets through APIs

Showcase Apps Developed using Open

Data

Email/SMS Alert Service for catalog

subscription


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OGD India

Hackathons


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April 2015

Open Data India : Accolades !

OGD Platform India has won the CSI-Nihilent

e-Governance Awards for excellence for the

year 2013-14

India had been ranked 10th on the

Global Open Data Index 2015

eIndia 2013 Award for

e-Governance Initiative -- Open

Government Data Portal -- Public Choice


April 2015

Web Ratna Awards: Open Data Champions

Thank you

Data & Analytics

Open Government Data for Transparency & Innovation