[wsfii-discuss] India - New Data Portals & Report on access to knowledge

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

I perused through these portals this morning. A really good start and 
might be very helpful research and education tool.
*
India Water Portal*
http://indiawaterportal.org/

The data are analyzed in house and it does not look like data are 
downloadable beyond copy and paste.  One can also not get a table with 
all the data points, coordinates and attributes and feed these into ones 
own GIS.  The tool is easy to use and does make water and associated 
meteorological data more publicly available. There are maps, charts and 
tables as well as numerous attributes to select from.  The data seem to 
span between 1901 and 2002.  Some of the representations are illegible, 
such as the longitudinal data representing mean precipitation at each 
point for that entire time period.  I guess these bugs will get worked 
out in time with input from the public.

*India Energy Portal*
http://www.indiaenergyportal.org/* *created by The Energy Resource 
Institute http://www.teriin.org/index.php
The energy statistics page provides access to tons of maps and charts 
that are quite good.  Themes are explained by sector and initiatives.  
Plenty of reports and information are readily made available.

both of these initiatives were found in a newly released National 
Knowledge Commission Report:

"/*PEOPLE'S ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE CAN TRANSFORM INDIA'S POTENTIAL" NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE COMMISSION REPORTS TO THE NATION PRIME MINISTER LAUNCHES FIRST TWO KNOWLEDGE PORTALS*/ (http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=24026)

Via: The Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN) http://www3.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/cracin/ - listserve - 
cracin-canada @ vancouvercommunity.net posted by Michael Gurstein

Anyone hear of an India IT portal with all the isps, infrastructure hubs, flows, broadband distribution etc. Does such a thing exist?

Cheers
Tracey

 
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