Hello All, This meeting was postponed to this Saturday if you have any suggestions please give them to me in the next day or so.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Shree D N <shre...@oorvani.in> wrote: > Hi, > I would like all the decisions taken by the state governments and city > councils, resolutions, discussions etc to be online in a searchable > centralised database, where people can search and see what decisions were > taken in which issue, when, and who discussed what in the assembly or > council sessions, or who didn't open their mouth... > This is something that can't happen in a local level without proper nic.in > framework and protocol on transcribing and uploading the content online, > and uploading of minutes of meetings etc. Once this is made a policy by the > centre as a transparency measure, with sufficient budget for it, all local > bodies and state assemblies would need to comply with it. > Then people can easily search and see what development projects are coming > up in their area, who authorised it, what was the rationale etc - right > now everything is mired in secrecy everywhere and even after multiple RTIs > we don't get the required data. > If anyone is attending this consultation, please raise this issue /lobby > for it :) time we made use of some IT in governance and transparency as > well. It will also help produce quality journalism across the country. > --Shree > > On 21 Nov 2016 17:42, "Nisha Thompson" <ni...@datameet.org> wrote: > >> HI All >> >> We have been invited again to the Pre Budget Consultation IT Group with >> the Ministry of Finance. I just received the invite for this weekend >> (consultation is on Sunday). The invite is attached. >> >> We attended last year and gave recommendations. >> http://datameet.org/2016/01/11/investing-in-data-pre-budget- >> consultation-with-the-finance-minister/ >> >> We will probably give similar ones this year but would like to open it up >> for more comments. >> >> Please take a look and give your thoughts by Wednesday so we can prepare >> a document to submit to the Ministry. >> >> NIsha >> >> -- >> 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Nisha Thompson DataMeet.org ni...@datameet.org 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
