The document summarizes the Open Government Data Platform India. It discusses how the platform was created to improve transparency through opening government data. It provides details on the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy that guides the initiative. It also outlines the roles of different stakeholders and how data is identified, published and accessed on the platform. Key statistics on implementation progress and community engagement are also presented.

1. Open Government Data (OGD)
Platform India
(data.gov.in)
for Transparency & Innovation
Presentation By: Alka Misra, Scientist ‘F’
National Informatics Centre

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Open data is machine readable data
that can be
used, reused and redistributed
by anyone

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Evidence-based Planning of socio-economic development processes rely
on quality data
Government Collects, Compiles & Possess huge data
• Crime Statistics, Prison Statistics, Census, weather, market prices, Eco
Indicators, price index, Demographic, Crime, survey, geo spatial data,..
Often Little Used
Analyzed from one perspective
Possess huge untapped potential
Collected using tax payers money
Why Open Government Data?

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NDSAP was Gazette notified on 17th March 2012
 Objective of the Policy
To facilitate the access to Government of India owned
shareable data and information in both human readable and
machine readable forms through a network all over the
country in a proactive and periodically updatable manner,
within the framework of various related policies, Acts and
rules of Government of India, thereby permitting a wider
accessibility and use of public data and information
NDSAP: National Data Sharing & Accessibility Policy

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NDSAP was Gazette notified on 17th March 2012
 Scope of the Policy
The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy will apply
to all data and information created, generated, collected
and archived using public funds provided by Government
of India directly or through authorized agencies by
various Ministries/Departments/Organizations/ Agencies
and Autonomous bodies.
NDSAP: National Data Sharing & Accessibility Policy

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Department of Science & Technology (DST) :
• Serve the nodal functions of coordination and monitoring of the policy
National Informatics Centre, DeitY
• Implementing Agency
• Formulate Implementation guidelines, technology & standards for data & metadata
• Design, Develop & Manage Open Government Data Platform (data.gov.in)
• Facilitate Identification & Publishing of datasets in Consultation with Depts
Ministry/ Departments/States…..
NDSAP: Key Stakeholders

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Role of Ministry/Depts./States
Nominate a Nodal Officer (as Chief Data Officer erstwhile Data Controller)
Chief Data Officers to Nominate Data Contributors
Setup NDSAP Cell
Prepare Negative List
Identify Positive Datasets which can be contributed
Publish Catalogs/Resources (Datasets/Apps) in Open Format (CSV, XML, XLS, RSS,...)
Create Action Plan for regular release of datasets
Monitor and Manage the Open Data Program

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From Ministry/Department/State To OGD Platform
 Identification of Datasets
 Compiling and Cleaning of Datasets
 Metadata Preparation
 Submission by Data Contributors
 Review and Approval by Chief Data Officer
 Review and Publishing by NDSAP-PMU
Journey of Datasets

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Ministry/
Departments/
States to
•Nominate Chief Data
Officer- a Senior
Government officer
•To drive open data
initiative in
respective Deptts/
Orgns
NDSAP Cell
•Members - Domain,
Data Analyst,
Technology Personnel
•Assist in compile,
collation ,
conversion &
publishing datasets
on OGD Platform in
open format
Data Formats,
Metadata
Schema,
Guidelines…
•Data Quality,
Accessibility,
Standardization
Workshops,
Seminars,
Stakeholder
Engagement
•By NDSAP PMU
through NIC
•Sensitization ,
Capacity building
•Citizen Engagement
(online)
•Community Contests,
Events
OGDI: Implementation Strategy

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Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India

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Top 10 Contributors of Datasets
Registrar General
and Census
Commissioner, India
(4247)
Department of
Agriculture and Co-
operation)
(2300)
NITI Aayog/Planning
Commission (1588)
Ministry of Statistics
and Programme
Implementation
(1574)
Department of
Health and Family
Welfare
(2131)
Ministry of Water
Resources
(1060)
Ministry of Road
Transport and
Highways
(476)
Central Electricity
Authority (490)
Rajya Sabha
(248)
Department of
Higher Education
(385)

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OGDP Services
Suggestions and data requirements – 30% datasets provided
Directly write to Chief Data Officer (provider)
Cataloging Service of Resources (Datasets/Apps)
Better data discovery – visualizations, apps, mash-ups, etc.
Service to Embed Catalogs in Websites, Blogs, etc.
Custom Widgets to consume sector specific catalogs
Visualization Engine Service for public to use

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OGDP Services
Facility for collaboration between Government & Community
People can rate the resources (datasets/apps) – Quality, Accessibility and
Usability in the scale of 5
Request to Release datasets through APIs
Direct and dynamic query to data items through the APIs.
Showcase Apps Developed using Open Data
Visualization Request, Email/SMS Alert Service for catalog subscription

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Open Data India: Implementation Status
107 Chief Data Officer
have been nominated
17,800+ Datasets
under 3747 catalogs by
98 departments
600+ Visualizations
have been created
Datasets
4.37Million times
viewed &
1.73 Million times
downloaded
107
APIs

24. OGDP: Community Engagement
12th Plan Hackathon
In Pursuit of an Idea
#OpenDataApps Challenge
CMA Hackathon
Code For Honor
Open Data Camp (ODC) 2014
Geekfest (91 Springboard)

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OGD India
Hackathons

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In Pursuit of an ‘Idea’
Creative Collaboration on Open Government Data
University of Delhi
May 24, 2013

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Open DataApps Challenge Prize Felicitation,
Feb 18, 2014

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Code for Honor 2014

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Open Data India : Accolades !
OGD Platform India has won the CSI-Nihilent
e-Governance Awards for excellence for the
year 2013-14
India had been ranked 10th on the
Global Open Data Index 2014
eIndia 2013 Award for
e-Governance Initiative -- Open
Government Data Portal -- Public Choice

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Web Ratna Awards: Open Data Champions

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Potential Datasets:Oceanographic Data
 Potential Fishing Zone
 TropFlux fluxes and flux related meteorological variables (Monthly and Daily)
 Argo database of ARGO data products
 Daily sea surface temperature (degrees C)
 Remote Sensing Data
 Datasets of Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System (COMAPS), The
Continental Tropical Convergence Zone (CTCZ) and Product, Location and Year
wise data on Coral Bleaching Alert System (CBAS)
 Datasets of GEOTRACES
 Ocean State Forecast Data
 Floats in Indian Ocean
 INDIAN STORM SURGE Bulletin and GIS
 Tsunami Modelling, Tsunami Early Warnings, Real time BPRs Information and
Real-time Tideguage Information
 Elnino Data
 Indian Ocean Dipole Index

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Potential Datasets:Atmospheric/Meteorological Data
 Data of Rainfall, Temperature, Relative Humidity, Surface Wind speed and directions
 Station Level/Mean Sea Level Pressure
 Amount and types of clouds observed
 Various Weather phenomenon such as, visibility, occurrence of Thunderstorm etc.
 Maitri, Antarctica Monthly/Daily weather summary
 Frequency of cyclonic disturbances
 Climate Normals based on 1951-80 and 1961-90 data
 Weather Reports on specific weather phenomenon such as heavy rainfall, storm etc
 Sun rise, Sun set and Moon rise, Moon set data of important stations of India
 All India, State and City wise weather forecasting
 State level Climate change Data and Climatology data of important cities
 Data on Agromet Products (AWS, ARG, Radiation, HWSR etc.)
 Weather Services data on Metar and Online Met Briefing System of Important Airports
 Air Quality Data
 Environmental monitoring data

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Potential Datasets:Earthquake and Seismology Data
 List of Earthquakes
 Un-scrutinized Earthquake Events
 BHPL Seismic Station Data
 AIZW GNSS Station Data
 Indian Seismic and GNSS Network Data ( BBS and GNSS)

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Potential Datasets: Marine Geology and Geophysical Data
 Marine Geophysical Data
 National Polar data

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Follow OGD Platform -
@DataPortalIndia
www.facebook.com/DataPortalofIndia
ndsap@gov.in

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