Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India
or data.gov.in is a platform for supporting
Open data
Open data is data that is openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shared by anyone for any purpose. Open data is licensed under an open license.
The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other "open(-source)" movements ...
initiative of
Government of India
The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, c ...
. This portal is a single-point access to datasets, documents, services, tools and applications published by ministries, departments and organisations of the
Government of India
The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, c ...
. It combines and expands the best features of India government'
India.gov.inand the
U.S. government's data.gov
Data.gov is a U.S. Government website launched in late May 2009 by the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States, Vivek Kundra. Data.gov aims to improve public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by t ...
project.
History
After announcing the launch of the site in June 2011,
[ the site was launched in October 2012. part of the ]Open Government Initiative
The Open Government Initiative is an effort by the administration of President of the United States Barack Obama to "reatean unprecedented level of openness in Government.". The directive starting this initiative was issued on January 20, 2009, Ob ...
was launched during October 2012, in compliance with the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) of India, Gazette notified in March 2012.[Gazette notified in March 2012](_blank)
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According to the preamble of NDSAP, there has been an increasing demand by the community that data collected with the deployment of public funds should be made more readily available to all, for enabling rational debate, better decision making and use in meeting civil society needs.
Overview
The site is based on Drupal
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Framework, and has four major modules:[
* Data Management System (DMS): This facilitates publishing of datasets/applications by authorised users from Ministries/Departments/Organisations.
* Content Management System (CMS): This module is used to update or create content and functionalities for Data Portal India.
* Visitor Relationship Management (VRM): This module facilitates collation and dissemination of feedback/suggestions received on Data Portal India.
* Communities: People with specific interest can connect through online communities.
The product is developed based on the Open Government platform and its source code is available on ]GitHub
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Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India[ was developed jointly by India & US government as a result of announcement made by President Obama and Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh during the Indo-US Open Government Dialogue in 2010.
Open data platform is a being implemented in US as their ]data.gov
Data.gov is a U.S. Government website launched in late May 2009 by the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States, Vivek Kundra. Data.gov aims to improve public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by t ...
. In India the platform was further customised by National Informatics Centre
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is an Indian government department under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The NIC provides infrastructure, IT Consultancy, IT Services including but not limited to architecti ...
(NIC) in line with the National Data Sharing Accessibility Policy to develop the Data Portal India.
Open data platform is also being offered to other countries. Ghana
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and Rwanda
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are also being powered by Open data platform.
See also
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* data.gov
Data.gov is a U.S. Government website launched in late May 2009 by the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States, Vivek Kundra. Data.gov aims to improve public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by t ...
* data.gov.uk
data.gov.uk is a UK Government project to make available non-personal UK government data as open data. It was launched in closed beta in September 2009 and publicly launched in January 2010. As of February 2015 it contained over 19,343 datasets, r ...
* India.gov.in
* My Gov
MyGov (Hindi ''Merī Sarkār'') is a citizen engagement platform launched by the Government of India on 26 July 2014 to promote the active participation of Indian citizens in their country's governance and development. It is aimed at creating ...
* USAFacts
USAFacts is a non-profit organization and website that provides data and reports on the United States population, its government's finances, and government's impact on society. It was launched in 2017.
History and background
USAFacts was fou ...
* India Data Portal
References
External links
Data Portal of India
NDSAP
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Open data
Government services web portals in India
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
Open government in India
Open data portals