[open-government] Open data contacts in Indian government?

Thu Jun 9 13:29:45 UTC 2011

Thanks for this Pranesh. Are there any public bodies or civil servants
who have an interest in using open licenses? Does this mean the Indian
national data catalogue won't contain any open data? ;-)

J.

2011/6/8 Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org>:
> It is the "National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy" that is described
> in that article, the draft of which I shared with this list a few weeks
> back.  Maj. Gen. (Dr.) R. Siva Kumar, who heads the National Spatial Data
> Infrastructure (which is part of the Department of Science and Technology),
> is responsible for getting this passed.  We at the Centre for Internet and
> Society submitted extensive comments, which don't seem to have been
> incorporated.
>
> We have been hopeful since last year that this would be India's open data
> policy, but after a very long meeting with him yesterday, I am less
> convinced of that than ever.
>
> Since each department will have the possibility of classifying something as
> "open access"/"registered access"/"restricted access", without any firm
> guidelines or requirements, there is a real possibility that nothing will be
> placed in the first category.  Furthermore, they are very clear that they do
> not wish to prescribe an open data licence because they wish to provide
> 'flexibility' to government departments. In some instances (especially for
> geo-spatial data), in the "implementation document", they will recommend
> licences (which may or may not cover copyright-related issues).
>
> - Pranesh
>
> On Wednesday 08 June 2011 01:18 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know who in the Indian government is responsible for
>> implementing this? Or which part of the government is doing this? Is
>> it Dr. Siva Kumar at the Natural Resources Data Management System?
>>
>>
>> http://thenextweb.com/in/2011/06/06/india-to-join-the-open-data-revolution-in-july/
>>
>
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