Re: [datameet] 3rd and final? draft to the ECI letter

[Rajesh D Hanbal]

Nisha,

How does our request fit with the NDSAP? Does it deal only with Dept of S &
T or does it apply to all departments?

http://www.dst.gov.in/nsdi.html :

"Global experience has demonstrated convincingly that access to data leads
to breakthroughs in scientific understanding as well as to economic and
public good, in addition to several benefits to civil society.   *Given the
deployment of substantial level of investment of public funds in collection
of data and the untapped potentials of benefits to social society, it has
become important to make available non-sensitive data for legitimate and
registered use."*

If it is relevant, we could make a reference to it. Otherwise, the letter
looks fine to me.

Cheers,
Rajesh



On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Nisha Thompson  wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> Even though it has been awhile I think it is still important we send this
> letter.
>
> Last round of feedback and then we'll send it out!
>
> http://datameet.org/wiki/odclettertoecidraft
>
> Nisha
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Re: [datameet] indian railway information

[Rajesh D Hanbal]

Hi Aashish,

I was frustrated with my personal experience with delays and with the talk
of bullet trains when the ordinary trains were persistently delayed by 2-3
hours over a   running time which was much the same!

I applied for an RTI a couple of months back to MoRl on "number of actual
arrivals at final destination" vs "number of arrivals with a delay of 30
mins or more" for a period of 30 days from 4th June-4th July.

On filing an appeal, I started getting varying responses from the 17 odd
zones. Interestingly, the Railway Board didn't seem to have this data in
one place. They wrote to all the 17 zones, who wrote to all the divisions(I
was copied in all this communication!). Some divisions gave me
hand-complied information. One zone asked for Rs 16000 for the photocopying
charges. One proactive station manager called me to get clarity on the
information being sought! A few divisions out-rightly refused citing a
previous CIC ruling.

What I asked for is perhaps a little different from your query(which is
even more interesting). But my guess is - there doesn't seem to be such
centralised information with the railway board. The zones seem to have
their own independent systems with varying level of automation.

Regards,
Rajesh

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Srinivasan Ramani 
wrote:

> Aashu,
>
> An easier (but possibly less accurate) way is to extract the data from
> indiarailinfo.com which provides a field on "average train time delays"
> for each and every train on its website.
>
> I suspect the website already uses a number of crawlers (on a quasi-legal
> basis, I suppose, considering the site hasn't revealed its owners/ admins
> and has anonymised/scrambled its whois information) from Indian Railways.
>
> Best,
> Srini
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Aashish Gupta  > wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Has someone tried to scrap railway delays from the ntes website before?
>> Is it possible to do? I don't know anything about the field, but given so
>> much differences in delays between trains for rich people (rajdhani,
>> duronto, shatabdi) and trains which poor people use, this is something that
>> the datameet community should be interested in showing, but has someone
>> tried to do that? I am thinking of doing this, but I don't mind someone
>> else doing it.
>>
>> The way I was thinking of doing it, given my non-technical but social
>> sciencey background was to randomly select about 100 trains and see delay
>> differences between different types of trains. Is there a better way? Is
>> someone willing to help or work together with me and nikhil?
>>
>> Let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aashish
>>
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[datameet] Fwd: [ciresearchers] FW: [open-government] Help us build an evidence base on the social impact of open data!

[Rajesh D Hanbal]

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From: michael gurstein 
Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:50 PM
Subject: [ciresearchers] FW: [open-government] Help us build an evidence
base on the social impact of open data!
To: ciresearch...@vancouvercommunity.net






*From:* open-government [mailto:open-government-boun...@lists.okfn.org] *On
Behalf Of *Julia Keseru
*Sent:* Monday, January 26, 2015 6:45 AM
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*Subject:* [open-government] Help us build an evidence base on the social
impact of open data!



*** Sorry for the cross-post. ***



Hey everyone,

We need your help!

The Sunlight Foundation is looking for examples on the social impact of
open data and digital transparency projects from around the world. This is
a great opportunity to tell us what open data project you`re working on and
how you think your initiative is making a change to our societies, beyond
economic impact. Our new repository is part of a research project to
explore and analyze the social impact of open data outside the U.S. (More
info in the blog post below.)

Please submit your case story through this link
,
or send it to internatio...@sunlightfoundation.com before the end of *Feb.
4*! All you need to do is give a very short description of your project and
how you think it's driving change.

Best and thanks,
Julia


http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2015/01/23/help-us-build-an-evidence-base-on-the-social-impact-of-open-data/


Help us build an evidence base on the social impact of open data!

by Júlia Keserű 

· policy 

JAN. 23, 2015, 8 A.M.

[image: open data in Scrabble letters]Photo by Flickr user Justin Grimes


Talking about the economic benefit of open data is one good way to describe
open data’s impact, and provides a "great rationale
"
for
the release of relevant data sets. However, open data’s impact does not lie
solely in the economic sphere. Government openness may produce tremendous
other benefits for our societies: increasing state or institutional
responsiveness, reducing levels of corruption and clientelism, building new
democratic spaces for citizens, empowering local and disadvantaged voices,
or enhancing service delivery and effective service utilization.

But how effective open data and government transparency actually are at
producing these social benefits is not yet at all evident. At a time when "fake
government openness
"
and
"open-washing
"
are
increasingly seen as a risk to the transparency movement’s credibility,
there is burning need for more evidence on how opening up government
information helps us all use resources more “effectively, equitably and
sustainably to meet people’s needs
.”
Developing indexes and comparative studies on a wide range of topics (e.g.
budgets ,
thefreedom
of the web , aid
, perceived corruption
, etc.) is a crucial
first step, but in order to get more buy-in from our policy-makers and a
critical mass of citizens, we need to look beyond those indexes and find
other ways to analyze the effect of open data on societies.

Much of the existing literature seeking to measure the impact and
effectiveness of transparency and open data accountability initiatives seem
to face

a
common challenge: It is incredibly difficult to come up with definitive,
evidence-based generalizations about how "x" type of initiatives produce
"y" kinds of effects. The field has yet to coalesce around a theory of
change, for one, and there are significant methodological challenges around
comparability and unevenness of evidence.

At Sunlight, we would like to help change that. As a continuation of our
work  to
provide examples of how opening up information makes a difference in
communities across the U.S., we want to tackle some of these challenges
throu

[datameet] DISE Data

[Rajesh D Hanbal]

Hi,

Has anybody have any pointers on DISE Data for schools? I am not looking at
the data per se, but looking at how the data is generated, who consumes it
and its impact on decision-making. Interested in understanding the
evolution of this MIS.  I am interested in exploring the the political
economy questions. This is for a paper I am working on.

Any leads/articles/contacts will be much useful!

Thanks,
Rajesh

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[datameet] Fwd: Talk on Technology and Politics - NREGA @ IIITB tomorrow

[Rajesh D Hanbal]

Dear Community, 

This talk might be of interest to Open Data enthusiasts especially because 
it will touch upon interesting attempts to re-represent government data to 
empower grassroots organizations and communities.  

Thanks,
Rajesh


On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 6:59:21 PM UTC+5:30, Rajesh D Hanbal wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear Researchers/Activists, 
>
> You are welcome to attend a talk on titled "*Technocracy as the veil for 
> lack of political will" *by Rajendran Narayanan at IIITB tomorrow at 4 
> PM. More details below. 
>
> Thanks,
> Rajesh
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *The Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP)*
>
> *International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB)*
>
>  
>
> invites you to a talk titled
>
>  
>
> *Technocracy as the veil for lack of political will: In the context of 
> NREGA*
>
> by
>
>  
>
> * Rajendran Narayanan*
>
> *Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University*
>
>  
>
> *4:00 pm - 5:30 pm on 17th April 2019 (Wednesday)*
>
> Venue:* Room #310, IIITB campus*
>
> *26/C, Electronic City, Hosur Road, Bangalore*
>
>
> * About the talk:*
>
> The Right to Information (RTI) has been a landmark law to increase 
> transparency and accountability of the government. In this regard, Social 
> Audits have been a powerful mechanism of monitoring and participation for 
> the marginalised sections to know their rights and entitlements and act 
> based on that knowledge. Social audits entail culling out and presenting 
> relevant information in a manner that is most useful to people 
> participating in programmes such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee 
> Act (NREGA). The information can then be used to conduct public hearings 
> leading to increased democratic engagement and participation. Rajendran is 
> a founder member of a collective of researchers and activists called LibTech 
> India <http://libtech.in/>. LibTech works with an array of civil society 
> organisations across several states in designing and developing "bottom-up" 
> Janata Information Systems (JIS). Such information can then be used for 
> continuous monitoring of government programmes and social audits. LibTech 
> India has also been active in various national campaigns as the National 
> Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI), the Right to Food 
> Campaign, NREGA Sangharsh Morcha and the People’s Action for Employment 
> Guarantee.
>
>  
>
> *Speaker Bio**:* Rajendran is an Assistant Professor in the School of 
> Liberal Studies, Azim Premji University, Bangalore. After completing his 
> Ph.D. in statistics from Cornell University, he has held teaching and 
> research positions at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Cornell 
> University, Ithaca and Ashoka University, Sonepat. In his doctoral work, he 
> explored theoretical questions pertaining to eigenvalues of random matrices 
> and shrinkage estimation in constrained regression problems. He has since 
> gradually migrated to the real world and engages in ‘Research for Action’ 
> in questions pertaining to transparency, accountability, and human rights.
>
> To know more about CITAPP visit *http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/ 
> <http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/>* and to explore M.Sc. (Digital Society) 
> programme visit 
> *http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/academic-programmes/m-sc-digital-society/ 
> <http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/academic-programmes/m-sc-digital-society/>*
>

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