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Public Consultation for the First Draft of 'Government Open Data Use License - India' Announced
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Jun 30, 2016
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Jun 30, 2016 09:41 AM
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Open Government Data,
Open License,
Open Data,
NDSAP,
Featured,
Openness
The first public draft of the open data license to be used by Government of India was released by the Department of Legal Affairs earlier this week. Comments are invited from general public and stakeholders. These are to be submitted via the MyGov portal by July 25, 2016. CIS was a member of the committee constituted to develop the license concerned, and we contributed substantially to the drafting process.
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Sean McDonald - Ebola: A Big Data Disaster
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Mar 01, 2016
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last modified
Apr 21, 2016 09:57 AM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Privacy,
Open Data,
Disaster Response,
Internet Governance,
Humanitarian Response,
CIS Papers
We are proud to initiate the CIS Papers series with a fascinating exploration of humanitarian use of big data and its discontents by Sean McDonald, FrontlineSMS, in the context of utilisation of Call Detail Records for public health response during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. The paper highlights the absence of a dialogue around the significant legal risks posed by the collection, use, and international transfer of personally identifiable data and humanitarian information, and the grey areas around assumptions of public good. The paper calls for a critical discussion around the experimental nature of data modeling in emergency response due to mismanagement of information has been largely emphasized to protect the contours of human rights.
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Seminar on Open Access in Research Area: A Strategic Approach
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Dec 15, 2015
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last modified
Dec 22, 2015 05:37 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Featured,
Open Research,
Open Access,
Openness,
Event
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Delhi, is organising a seminar on open access in research on Tuesday, December 22, 2015. The seminar will focus on: 1) wider access to scientific publications and research data, 2) access to scientific information, and 3) challenges and opportunities of research data. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting the event as a Knowledge Partner.
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SoI’s Open Series Maps Fails to Implement Public Sharing of Govt Data
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 04, 2017
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filed under:
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Geospatial Data,
Openness
Although it has made the topographic maps or the Open Series Maps available to general public, Survey of India’s (SoI) Nakshe portal will have to go through a variety of litmus test, as the initiative fails to implement the mandates of public sharing of government data using open standards and open license as put forward by the NMP 2005 and NDSAP 2012, says Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director, The Centre for Internet and Society. This interview was published by Geospatial World on May 02, 2017.
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Steps towards Integrated Open Water Data
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Nov 02, 2017
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last modified
Nov 02, 2017 09:58 AM
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filed under:
Open Water Data,
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Environment,
Openness
Multiplicity of data collection agencies, formats, and disclosure practices and conditionalities make it very difficult to access interoperable and open data about water resources and systems in India. Barriers to accessing water data impede not only academic and applied research on related topics but also public consumption of information and critical decision making. DataMeet and CIS are proud to collaborate on identifying and addressing the challenges to open up and integrate data and information in the water sector. Supported by a generous grant from Arghyam, we are undertaking an initial study of open water data resources in India and taking first steps towards developing a Free and Open Source data portal for water resources information in India. Here is an initial note about the project. The key leaders and contributors of this project are Craig Dsouza, Namita Bhatawdekar, Riddhi Munde, and Jinda Sandbhor, all of whom are members of the Pune Chapter of DataMeet.
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Submitted Comments on the 'Government Open Data Use License - India'
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Jul 26, 2016
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last modified
Jul 26, 2016 09:23 AM
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filed under:
Open Government Data,
Open License,
Open Data,
NDSAP,
Featured,
Openness,
Homepage
The public consultation process of the draft open data license to be used by Government of India has ended yesterday. Here we share the text of the submission by CIS. It was drafted by Anubha Sinha, Pranesh Prakash, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Submitted Comments on the Telangana State Open Data Policy 2016
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Sep 01, 2016
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last modified
Sep 01, 2016 05:49 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Policies,
Openness,
Homepage
Last month, the Information Technology, Electronics & Communications Department of the Government of Telangana released the first public draft of the Telangana State Open Data Policy 2016, and sought comments from various stakeholders in the state and outside. The draft policy not only aims to facilitate and provide a framework for proactive disclosure of data created by the state government agencies, but also identify the need for integrating such a mandate within the information systems operated by these agencies as well. CIS is grateful to be invited to submit its detailed comments on the same. The submission was drafted by Anubha Sinha and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Summary of the Minutes of the Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 30, 2012
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filed under:
Open Data,
Openness
The Western Ghats Portal team had organized a one-day workshop to explore the contemporary state of biodiversity informatics as expressed in three spheres: technology behind biodiversity informatics, scientific commons and policy and biodiversity portals in India. It hoped to provide an opportunity to interact and learn from similar endeavors in this emerging discipline. The workshop was held at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore on 25 November 2011.
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Survey of Estimates of Economic Value of Open Government Data
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by
Ömer Faruk Sarı
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published
Aug 22, 2015
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last modified
Aug 22, 2015 08:42 AM
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filed under:
Open Government Data,
Digital Economy,
Open Data,
Economics,
Openness
This is a survey of estimates of economic value of open government data, and public sector information in general, across regions, countries, and sectors offered by several reports published during the last decade. The survey is undertaken by Ömer Faruk Sarı, a student of Business Administration at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, and research intern with CIS.
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Talks by Richard Abisla and Kaliya Young
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by
Admin
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published
Feb 28, 2019
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last modified
Mar 07, 2019 11:59 PM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Event,
Openness
The Centre for Internet & Society will be hosting public talks by Richard Abisla and Kaliya Young, who are both 2019 India-U.S. Public Interest Technology Fellows at New America at its Bangalore office on March 4, 2019.
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