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

Mon Jan 15 17:02:44 UTC 2007

Thanks Tracey,

Some real nice information and links

much appreciated

ram
Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
> 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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