Craig and I have been doing some research on the use of water quality data and how opening it can add value.
It is largely a jump off of the Global Open Data Index <https://index.okfn.org/>water quality assessment. The goal was to see how groups using water quality data in projects would benefit from open data. We interviewed NGOs from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal about their projects and data usage and if assessing data availability would help their work. Out of this research we realized the limitations of open data to those working in implementation. But there is still quite of bit that can be done to make the data released by the government more substantial and useful to those who aim to improve government services and implementation. I've attached the report please feel free to read and comment. There are several projects that we are looking to start that ground groups would be interested in having if anyone wants to help please let me know and we can start working on them. They are listed in the document. THe next phase of the work iwll look at creating transparency at a system level. What does an integrated water management system look like from a transparency and accountability level? What data do you need? How would people like to receive this information? how do you make it understandable? If anyone wants to help just message me and we can look at this together. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Ydcq-k0lQulih9UrMbJGokoNJ6nUGGZznCQB3rlLk0/edit?usp=sharing -- 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.
