Nisha,

You mentioned something about chennai is moving towards a portal, can u
elaborate on that?

Srinivas


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Nisha Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Srinivas,
>
> I agree we should have one!  Can we get a few other people in teh
> Bangalore group together and start lobbying the NIC and bangalore to create
> one?
>
> STarting with meetings and letters with Bangalore stakeholders? THen see
> about who is interested in starting the conversation in other cities.
>
> Chennai might be movign toward a portal but I'm nto sure, I don't see why
> Bangalore can't have one or Delhi or Mumbai or PUne.
>
> Nisha
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:52 AM, srinivas kodali <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Our Open data policy makes it mandatory for ministries to categorize
>> their department datasets into open-data or restricted and release them
>> publicly.
>> But the same is not true with city/municipal agencies. Most important
>> datasets like public transport, financial spendings, pollution levels,
>> water  usage fall under state/municipal agencies.
>>
>> These are important datasets which need to be made public. Making local
>> agencies release datasets through data.gov.in would bring data standards
>> locally and also improve community participation. Think of it,
>> bangalore.data.gov.in would be an interesting page to have.
>>
>> Pointing out the equivalent open-access pages across the world.
>>
>> Beijing - http://www.bjdata.gov.cn/
>> Seattle - https://data.seattle.gov/browse
>> Chicago - https://data.cityofchicago.org/
>> Baltimore - data.baltimorecity.gov
>> Honolulu - data.honolulu.gov
>> Colorado - data.opencolorado.org
>> Lexington - data.lexingtonky.gov
>> Somerville - data.somervillema.gov
>> Palo Alto - paloalto.opendata.junar.com
>> Louisville - portal.louisvilleky.gov
>>
>> why not have similar ones for india, there is enough data around. Delhi
>> has real-time pollution level monitored, real-time locations of buses,
>> water usage data is available from water boards.
>>
>> What do we need for this to happen?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Srinivas Kodali
>>
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