This is excellent news ! We need to explore if they are sharing data in the licenses that enable us to re-use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Projects.
Regards Tinu Cherian Wikimedia India Chapter.
On 2/10/2012 12:27 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote:
hi,
I believe that this is relevant here since we have been trying to access government data to improve Wikipedia articles.
Pradeep Handheld
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pranesh Prakashpranesh@cis-india.org Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:22:22 +0530 Subject: [datameet] National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy 2012 Approved To: Datameetdatameet@googlegroups.com
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.
SH/LM (Release ID :80196)
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