[open-government] Call for comments on report on open government data in India

Tue Feb 1 14:56:10 UTC 2011

Dear all,
While I realise that reading a long-ish report isn't on everyone's list 
of 'favourite things to do during a busy work week', we would really 
appreciate the help in bettering the report.  (We are shortly going to 
do an update of the report, covering more case studies.)  I realize 
there is plenty of scope to improve the report in terms of the sections 
on privacy, the structuring of the case studies, and the critique of 
technological (mis-)appropriation, especially could all be much 
stronger.  I would love to get comments from listmembers (thanks Makx!).

Regards,
Pranesh

On Thursday 27 January 2011 02:07 PM, Tim Davies wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've just been pointed to the following report, which I don't think had been
> flagged up on this list.
>
> http://www.cis-india.org/advocacy/openness/blog/open-government-data-report
>
> Open for comments until the 30th Jan, but equally valuable for some key
> insights.
>
>  From the recommendations:
>
> "The meaning of ‘open government data’ and the purposes they serve will have
> to be reexamined from an
> Indian perspective.   The reasons that work well in the United States and
> the United Kingdom may not work
> well in India.  We also have to be very careful about how we imagine the end
> users of open government data.
> Do we visualize open data as being for the benefit of individual middle
> class citizens by helping them consum
> ing the (processed) data themselves (with bus routes, for instance), or do
> we visualize them as being for the
> benefit of the poor, and thus target target NGOs?  Do we visualize them as
> being hackers or as laypersons?"
>
> All the best
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
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Pranesh Prakash
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