It would be absolutely fantastic if we can organise ongoing training and sensitisation sessions for government departments in order to assist them to streamline timely uploading of public information.
These may also be conducted at universities where scientific research is published, for the publishing departments.
They don't have to be wiki sessions per se, although as we know wiki is a very useful tool. But a lot of departments today (including NIC, I fear) seem to think that uploading .doc and scanned paper documents (even the Gazeete of India) is the same thing as publishing online. The statement released by Pranesh specifically states that the documents published online have to be machine readable.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Pradeep Mohandas
<pradeep.mohandas@gmail.com> wrote:
hi,
I believe that this is relevant here since we have been trying to
access government data to improve Wikipedia articles.
Pradeep
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From: Pranesh Prakash <pranesh@cis-india.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:22:22 +0530
Subject: [datameet] National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy 2012 Approved
To: Datameet <datameet@googlegroups.com>
http://goo.gl/jb9Xc
Cabinet
February, 2012 12:22 IST
National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy – 2012 approved
The Union Cabinet today approved the National Data Sharing and
Accessibility Policy – 2012 (NDSAP-2012). The objective of the policy is
to facilitate access to Government of India owned shareable data and
information in both human readable and machine readable forms through a
network all over the country in a proactive and periodically updatable
manner, within the framework of various related policies, Acts and Rules
of the Government, therefore, permitting a wider accessibility and use
of public data and information.
The NDSAP policy is designed to promote data sharing and enable access
to Government of India owned data for national planning and development.
The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy will apply to all
data and information created, generated, collected and achieved using
public funds provided by Government of India directly or through
authorised agencies by various Ministries / Departments/ Organisations/
Agencies and Autonomous bodies.
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