hii On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 11:41:35 AM UTC+5:30 Guneet Narula wrote:
> Dear all, > > Just wanted to update everyone on an important meeting we had earlier this > month. Hrid Bijoy Chakraborty from the office of the deputy chief minister, > Delhi contacted DataMeet last month regarding Delhi government's plans to > roll out the Mohalla Sabha Project - which is an idea to increase local > participation in governance and promote decentralization. He wanted to > discuss with us possibilities of GIS and open data related to the same. > Four of us (Nisha, Shashank, Praachi and I) met him and his colleagues on > 5th April at the Delhi Secretariat. We discussed their objectives in > length. Not surprisingly the project is complex and lengthy - and maybe, > rightly so. An important point to note, about three thousand mohalla > sabha's have been mapped out by the government according to electoral > booths. > > By the end of the meeting, we chalked out three broad action points: > > 1. Government will open relevant data about these mohalla sabhas, > demographics of the registered voters residing in each sabha. DataMeet > Delhi will help create and visualize a baseline with all this information. > 2. Using this as a building block, DataMeet Delhi will work towards the > larger goal of Open Data Policy/Act in Delhi. > 3. Help one of the government departments to organize and archive their > public documents (PDFs of acts, policies, schemes etc.) on the web. This > may then be replicated for all departments. > > As of now, we are waiting for Delhi Government to take the next steps in > each case. We will try to organize DataMeets around these as and when > required. And of course keep you all updated on what's happening. > > Regards, > Guneet > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/e1765cc2-2c62-4eae-a541-d91f6579d3dfn%40googlegroups.com.
