Re: [datameet] Re: [Delhi Chapter Update] Meeting with Delhi Government

[Prabhakar Rajagopal]

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
>>
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[datameet] Re: [Delhi Chapter Update] Meeting with Delhi Government

[manojdiw...@gmail.com]

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
>

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