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 >> >> -- >> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >> --- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Nisha Thompson > DataMeet.org > [email protected] > skype: nishaqt > mobile: 962-061-2245 > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > 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. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- 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.
