Hi Nisha, I'm interested in BBMP data.
We need to tell them to make the records of Council meetings and Standing Committee meetings publicly available. This basically will have key decisions that take place that actually govern the city's infrastructure projects (SWD remodelling, underpass, flyover, garbage, roads, town planning data.) We also have to tell them to make the data bi-lingual (Kannada and English - now it is only Kannada, and not copyable - not in unicode, and not on public domain too). Given the level of awareness that is being created in Bangalore, I think this is worth doing. I did try writing to commissioner asking them to use the emailing facility to circulate minutes of meetings or upload them publicly - but there was just an acknowledgement of the mail, nothing more. There is a lot to do with BBMP regarding data. Is any other municipality doing this? I'm interested to know. - Shree On 25 March 2014 19:33, Nisha Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Everyone! > > > > I'm really happy to share that we had a very successful Bangalore Open > Data Camp this last weekend! Thank you to all who came and participated, > the volunteers and the speakers. You all really made the event a success. > > > > Also a big thanks to Google for the space, Akshara Foundation for the > travel funds, Oorvani Foundation for supporting the data journalism track > and the hackathon with vision and ideas, and Centre for Internet and > Society for supporting our pre event workshops. > > > > We had around 150 people total for Saturday and Sunday about 30 people in > and out for the hackathon. I think the overall discussion level this event > was much better and we actually had great projects during the hackathon. > > > > You can see them here: > > http://odc.datameet.org/odcblr2014:hackathon > > > > I will be following up with the teams so look forward to an email this > week with some of the results of the hackathon! > > > > Video will be done by Saturday we will have it up! And also speak PPTs > will go up soon. > > > > Next Steps- > > We are writing a summary of the event - summarizing the speakers > presentations and also if anyone took notes please share so we can include > them in the summary. > > > > We are sending the summary and a letter to the Election Commission > requesting them to make post delimitation boundaries available. Shekar > Krishnan is spearheading this letter and will share the draft with the > group soon. > > > > We can also write letters to Data.Gov.In and ask them to create a place > on their portal for a citizen contribution site for government data that is > cleaned up by citizens. Let me know if anyone thinks this is worth it and > wants to help draft it, reply to this thread. > > > > We can also write a letter to the BBMP with suggestions and thoughts about > making their data more open. If anyone wants to help draft that reply to > this thread. > > > > We did a great brainstorming session on Data Meet. I'll be writing a > separate note soon but also we will be creating a page on Datameet.org for > people to put ideas and get other people to support them. > > > > Thanks everyone for the great event! > > > Nisha and Thej > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ------- Cheers, *Shree | Associate Editor | Oorvani Media Pvt LtdPublications:* citizenmatters.in | indiatogether.org Bangalore | Tel: +91-80-4173 7584 | Mobile: +91-95909 35559 Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/citizenmatters> | Follow us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/citizenmatters> -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
