Good initiative. Involving civil society from the beginnings in open data projects. Crowdsourcing information from the communities will be a good idea.
Best wishes. Please keep posted on progress. Prabhakar On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 12:14 AM manojdiw...@gmail.com < manojdiwakars...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/e1765cc2-2c62-4eae-a541-d91f6579d3dfn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CABzdB7biG50ZYYivU37J3Mh0_u7CJqHRs3UjjkCR7-AmP%3D%2BQmg%40mail.gmail.com.
