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Public consultation on Government Open Data Use License - India

Start Date :

Jun 24, 2016

Last Date :

Jul 26, 2016

00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)

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Under 6th pillar of digital India Initiative, Open Government Data Platform is endeavoring share of Government data in open domain to improve openness and transparency between ...

Under 6th pillar of digital India Initiative, Open Government Data Platform is endeavoring share of Government data in open domain to improve openness and transparency between Government and the public, encouraging participation of the community and emphasizing data driven decision making to enable the delivery of integrated services.

Structured data available in open format and open license for public access and use, usually termed as “Open Data,” it allows citizens and businesses to find new ways to use it and to create new innovative products and services. The Open Government Data initiative started in India with the notification of the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP), on 17th March 2012 & in pursuance of the policy, the Open Government Data Platform India (data.gov.in) was launched in 2012.

Data also is one of the most valuable resources of modern governance, sharing of which enables various and non-exclusive usages for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Associating an Open License with Open Data is necessary to ensure the legal grounding for its potential reuse and also is crucial to ensure that such data is not misused or misinterpreted (for example, by insisting on proper attribution), and that all users have the same and permanent right to use the data. For a data user wishing to use and build on top of public data, they require assurance of what they legally can and can’t do with the data both commercially and non-commercially. To promote access to publicly held information, promoting transparency and enabling wider economic and social gain, need has been felt in the Government that there must be an Open Government Data Use License.

Government Open Data Use License - India has been drafted by the Suresh Chandra (Law Secretary, Department of Legal Affairs) Committee. After several rounds of discussions and deliberations the committee has finalized the draft of the license.

General public and stake-holders including open data community members, professionals, academicians, data scientists, NGOs, institutions, government bodies, etc. in the field of open data production, consumption and management are hereby solicited to send their suggestions on draft Government Open Data Use License - India.

You are requested to type your suggestion in the given box. Please mention the Clause number on which you want to suggest.Please put a ‘#’ sign before the Clause number. You can refer the following example:
#Clause4: Followed by your Suggestion.

You can also upload a pdf file compiling all your suggestions.

Please refer the full text of:
Government Open Data Use License – India (Draft)
National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP)

Last date of submission is July 25, 2016.

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Rahul Jain 9 years 9 months ago

#Clause1 Preamble Doesn't state the speed and uptime of the server where data will be stored. Slow speed or downtime of data access from server will result in non-utilization of data-sets.

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Rahul Jain 9 years 9 months ago

#Clause3b Applying license worldwide will allow people to use the data-set for unlawful purposes on places of the world where there is war or no law exist. For example people can keep a server on an self purchased island for all the unlawful purposes.

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Rahul Jain 9 years 9 months ago

#Clause3a Redistribution of Data should not change/modify the data to show/interpret a wrong conclusion. Redistribution of data should maintain sanity of data set.

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Rahul Jain 9 years 9 months ago

#Clause3a Don't Allow continuous access to data. People will use the direct connection to the data and access it all the time or download multiple time in a day straining the data storage servers.

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SUDHIR SINGH SANGAR 9 years 9 months ago

Modi ji aap sab taraf dekh rahe hain. Har kisi ka dard samaj rahe h apne india k teachers ki taraf kab dekhenge kab unka dard samjenge jo JBT/D.Ed/DIET + CTET(TEACHER ELIGIBILITY TEST) Kar k baithe h jo pichle 2009 se vacancies ka intjar kar rhe hain. Ap se ummid thi ki ap sabhi yuvao ki yogyta ko samjenge par yaha toh yogyta wait karne me hi khatam ho ri hain. OVERAGE ho jane par kya karoge tab ap unke liye jinhone apne jeewan ka pehla aur aakhiri lakshye hi TEACHER ban na socha. they'll die

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amaendeepm 9 years 9 months ago

Being an Open Data advocate, my suggestion is to have data funnels to be made available to cater the needs of enterprise large and small alike. It could need building dedicated data centers like Apple setting one underground in rural Denmark. Also important to track who can monetize data & Government can arrange few international hackathons to visualize usage of such data for greater good. And such data interface should not be allowed to be manipulated by request of feminists/pressure groups

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Prithvi Chandra 9 years 9 months ago

Thanks for providing me such an ample opportunity to raise my view. 1st thing: The impacts can be either way' Pro and Con. As we are however registered to write this, the info should be available only for people who are registered. Also I'd like to ask you to setup a 3rd layer of verification like a pancard Id, Aadhar. Our nation is now dealing with larger threats and one of them is data theft that could lead to imbalance in economical standard of India.please setup an 3rd level authentication

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Alok Bhushan 9 years 9 months ago

A lot of open data is available on Wikipedia. Would love to see a similar open project initiated by government and run and maintained by Indians all over the world. It can named Indipedia because it should be aimed at comprehensive coverage of our rich and varied heritage. It should contain information regarding everything Indian or related to India. Tagline can be Glory of the Great Indian Subcontinent. A parallel open project can be aimed at tracing Indian lineages so that each Indian becomes

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nithin_23 9 years 9 months ago

Government idea us awesome. But there will be few glitches in implementation part if we don't define correctly what 'GOVERNMENT DATA' mean and what 'OPEN DATA' mean. Government has data relating to different sectors out which only few can be shared to public. So instead of Government data we can use the term 'GOVERNMENT SHARABLE DATA' that would make sense. Utilization of sharable data should be defined with proper guidelines. Coming to implementation it should not be like RTI act

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Sabyasachi Nath 9 years 9 months ago

# Clause 2.2.2: I think clarity is needed with the term "manipulated". If raw data is published, it should not allow any manipulation besides masking of sensitive or restricted data as mandated by the law, acts, etc. Processed data may be open to manipulation prior its publication, however the # Clause 2.2.7: must provide the clarity if the data is processed or raw. Addition: Time of availability of data; access to such data within specified standard of time is must to keep data relevant.

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