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.
Ope Data License should be real time, currently most of the important citizen services online data doesn't matches the real work time progress, some data which are under decisions / approvals / scrutinized / permissions / licenses / acknowledgement of the applications are intentionally kept pending or the government employees dont want to upload the status in time or not capable, time line should be defined to match the realtime data and the status period to complete the task...
First make the Govt Depts accountable as many govt depts just time passing without any use to public specifically the power sectors, the banks ,IT office etc just time passing in offices make sure its utilized efficiently or make it privatized , then all will be alright since just for job security, no job monitoring etc, its threat to society , public need to feed them with heavy salaries, closed down sick industries first like BHEL, BEL, HAL etc, all anti people, as well national waste ,,, huge
All the Tax Collected by Government should be visible to people and every month figures should be given to people for what purpose it has been used and how much has been used for public.
All the Policies and Data should be made reachable to public ( Except for the data which may affect our national security)
First make sure what you promised before elections fulfilled almost 3 years going to be over nithing happened except time passing, where is swiss money,where is black money,,, all rates of commodities rised, no security to country,,, simply foreign trips,,, please make trasparent inside the country and sack the corrupted, instead of time passing diverting public attention, Make Karnataka govt clean first, it rotten , power sector, transportation etc all polluted amend transfers to all
All the Policies and Data should be made reachable to public ( Except for the data which may affect our national security)
#OGD as like emergency contact open data should be provided to every citizen . Before that all the data providers sholud be streamlined under one policy by #TRAI
The data should be free to download, and to use & it should not be used for black mailing.
#Clause8.2 - for registered access, please include private companies that can get access to data as long as they register. I see lot of the innovation and use of data coming from individuals and private companies.
this data should be provided to the researchers, and the citizens outside the government sso that they can make fruitful use of it for various academic purposes. for e.g. the spatial data must be made available outside the SOI to people, educators and citizens so that an independent research opportunity can be developed and enhanced.