Innovation - Open data Initiative of GoI - Fostering Innovations

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Meeting of the Management of Statistical
Information System (MSIS 2014)
Innovation Open Data Initiative of Government
of India Fostering Innovations, Creating
Opportunities
by B.N. Satpathy, Chairman, Oversight Committee,
NDSAP, Planning Commission A.K. Chanana, Sr.
Technical Director, NIC Data Controller,
Planning Commission Government of India (Dublin,
Ireland, 14-16 April, 2014)
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National Data Sharing Accessibility Policy
(NDSAP)

• Evidence-based Planning of socio-economic
  development processes rely on quality data
• There is a general need to facilitate sharing and
  utilization of the large amount of data generated
  and residing among the entities of the Government
  of India
• Potential value of data collected or developed
  through public funds, could be better realized
  when made publicly available
• There has been an increasing demand by the
  community, that data collected with the
  deployment of public funds should be made more
  readily available, free of cost to public itself
• NDSAP was formulated through an extensive process
  of consultation. It was gazette notified on 17th
  March, 2012

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National Data Sharing Accessibility Policy
(NDSAP)

• NDSAP aims at the promotion of a technology-based
  culture of data management with state-of-the art
  data warehouse and data archieve with online
  visualisation
• NDSAP aims to provide an enabling provision and
  platform for providing proactive and open access
  to government data with use of innovative tools
• Open Government Data (OGD) Platform has been set
  up to provide access to datasets published by
  different government entities in open format.
• NDSAP is applicable to
• All sharable non-sensitive data, available either
  in digital or analog forms but generated using
  public funds
• All Ministries/Departments/Subordinate
  offices/organizations/ agencies of Government of
  India

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NDSAP Implementation Key Stakeholders

• Ministry/ Departments/ Offices/ Organisations
• Started with the following -
• To Nominate Nodal Officer (as Data Controller)
• To Contribute 5 high value datasets in next 3
  months
• To Define Negative List
• To Contribute rest of datasets within a year in
  schedule manner
• To Manage their Open Data Programme

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NDSAP Implementation Present Status

• Data Portal is live at http//data.gov.in
• More than 70 Data Controllers nominated
• About 7,056 resources in 2,874 catalogues from 66
  Ministries/ Departments (as on 12th April, 2014)
• Viewed 1.19 M times, 445,767 downloads by 39,313
  registered users and 4.6 M visitors
• Workshop held for data Controllers from time to
  time to motivate
• Implementation Guidelines
• Guidelines Drafted by NIC, a department under
  Ministry
• Reviewed by Intra Ministerial Taskforce
• Discussed issues in Data Controller Workshop
• First Version of Guidelines circulated to all
  departments

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NDSAP Implementation Features of the Portal
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DATA PORTAL INDIA
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Implementation Statistics on Indias Data Portal
Total Datasets - 7,056 Catalogues - 2,874 Depar
tments Participating - 66 States
Participating - 07 Visualisation
- 170 APPs - 25 Departments
Participating - 07
Datasets contributed by Planning Commission
915 (as on 12th April, 2014)
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Number of Datasets in Various Formats
Total No. of Catalogues 2,872
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Datasets By Frequency
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Dataset Ratings (in )
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Total No. of Datasets 915
Total Datasets 915
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Dataset Popularity
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Big Data Indias Datasets
Every day, on an average, we create 2.5
quintillion (2.51030) bytes of data so much
that 90 of the data in the world today has been
created in the last two years alone. This data
comes from everywhere sensors used to gather
climate information, posts to social media sites,
digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction
records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a
few. This data is big data. Simple
Computation How much time to just
transfer There is huge volume of data in the
world. Need to -

• Understand and navigate data sources
• Manage store huge volume of any data
• Structure and control data
• Analyze unstructured data
• Integrate and govern all data sources with data
  quality lifecycle management

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Indias Open Data Initiative Success Story

• To strengthen the Open Government Data Initiative
  of India -
• Spread awareness in the community ranging from
  developers, researchers to people from start-ups
  and industries
• To further accelerate, India has opened
  Innovation Hubs at big cities to provide a
  platform for student community to convert their
  ideas and create Apps from the huge data from the
  portal itself into tangible form for applications
  in daily life
• Use SMAC, short for Social, Mobile, Analytics and
  Cloud, the latest buzzword. These techniques
  cannot be ignored because they are changing the
  way IT will be consumed in the years to come
• Use the ecosystem of service providers and rising
  technical base of talented users with mobile and
  social connections
• Smart phones can now be used to collect data in
  Big Data, make use of Big Data analytic
  initiatives

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Indias Open Data Initiative Success Story

• Indias Open Data Initiative has fostered
  innovations and created new opportunities,. All
  we require is the will and the commitment to use
  data for transforming governance
• Indias Open Data Initiative has created data on
  all sectors of economy in the public domain so
  that research community, software developers,
  public community, innovators can make use of it
  in generating APPs, do research, make
  publications. It has created opportunities for
  all
• Indias Open data Initiative National Data
  Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) have
  been made a platform to facilitate this
  engagement and collaboration with domain experts,
  stakeholders and key participants to create an
  innovation movement in India
• Our datasets in the portal are one of the sub-set
  of big data
• Data is the new oil we have to learn how to
  mine it data is a food we have to learn how to
  digest it. It is the data, every individual has
  to innovate. Indias Open Data Initiative will
  definitely takes datas innovation forward

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Thank you for your kind attention