Open Data Initiative India by Neeta Verma, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre DeitY, Government of India

1. September 2014
Prepared for : Aditya Birla Yarn
Version 2
Open Data Initiative
India
Neeta Verma
Deputy Director General
National Informatics Centre
DeitY, Government of India
neeta@nic.in

2. Open Data
Open data is data that can be
freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone

3. Raw Data Now
In 2009 Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) called
for “raw data now” – for governments, scientists and institutions to
make their data openly available on the web

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

5. Open Data Initiatives Worldwide
• Governments
• International Organisations
(World Bank, UNDP, OECD,..)
• Research Institutions
• Academic Institutions
• Industry
• NGOs

6. National Data Sharing & Accessibility Policy
(NDSAP)
• NDSAP was formulated through an extensive process of consultation.
It was gazette notified on 17th March 2012
• NDSAP mandates all Ministries/Departments to release maximum
possible datasets in the public domain
• NDSAP is applicable to
• All sharable non-sensitive data
• Government Ministries, Departments,
& Associated Offices
Full Text at http://data.gov.in

7. Open Data India: Implementation Strategy
Data
Controllers
• Senior
Government
officers
• To drive open
data in
respective
depts/ orgns
NDSAP Cell
• domain, data
analyst,
technology
• Assist in
compile,
collation ,
conversion &
publishing
datasets on
data portal in
open format
Data Formats,
Metadata
Schema,
Guidelines…
• Data Quality,
Accessibility,
Standardization
Workshops,
Seminars,
Stakeholder
Engagement
• Sensitization ,
Capacity bldg.
• Citizen
Engagement
(online)
• Community
Contests,

8. 8
Open Government Platform
(OGPL)

9. Open Government Platform (OGPL)

10. OGPL features
 Developed and Managed Using Open Source
 Highly Configurable
 Universally Accessible (Govt. Guidelines Compliant)
 Analytics .. Generates Metrics around Content
 Visitor/ Usage Analytics
 Citizen Engagement
Suggestions/Rating/Social Media Connectors

11. NDSAP & OGDP: Implementation Guidelines
– Guidelines Drafted by NIC
– Reviewed by Intra-ministerial Taskforce (DST, PC,
MOSPI, Commerce & Industry, NIC, DeitY, DARPG,
etc.)
– Deliberated in Data Controller Workshop & Finalised
– Full Text of Guidelines is available at data.gov.in

12. 1
Data Portal India
http://data.gov.in

14. Open Government Data India
• 103 Data Controllers (DCs) nominated (96 Central, 7 State)
• 12,323 resources contributed by 83 departments
• 337 Visualizations and 7 APIs
• 8,11,553 times Resources are downloaded and 2.03 million times
viewed
• 300+ Users availed API keys

15. Data Portal India - data.gov.in
Distribution of Datasets (November 2014)
Census (2875)
Agriculture
(2100)
Planning (1469)
National
Statistics (1266)
Water
Resources
(1060)
Health and
Family Welfare
(682)
Road Transport
and Highways
(476)
Power (429)
Rajya Sabha
(248)
Human
Resource
Development
(163)
Crime Records
(148)
Economic
Affairs (118)
Lok Sabha (112)
Science and
Technology
(112)
Pollution (73)
Chemicals and
Fertilizers (63)
Commerce and
Industry (58)
Animal
Husbandry,
Dairying and
Fisheries (51)
Biotechnology
(46)
and many more
….

16. OGDP Services
• Suggestions and Data requirements by citizen, community,..
• Directly write to Data Controller (provider)
• Cataloging Service of Resources (Datasets/Apps)
• GoI Controlled Vocabulary Services
• Better data discovery and usage through visualizations and
development of apps, mash-ups, etc.
• Service to Embed Catalogs in Websites, Blogs, etc.
• People can create visualizations of their own data using the
visualization engine service of the OGD Platform

18. DATA PORTAL INDIA : data.gov.in
• Facilitates Citizen Engagement
• Rate Data Sets
• Comment on quality of Datasets
• Embed Datasets in
Website, Blogs, Social Media Pages
• Provision to Suggest Datasets
• Communities of Specific Interest

19. OGDP Services : APIs
• Online Request to Release datasets through Open APIs
• Direct and dynamic query to data items through the APIs.
 Showcase Apps Developed using Open Data
 Visualization Request
 Widget to Consume/Link filtered set of catalogs
 Email/SMS Alert Service for catalog subscription

22. 2
Data Visualization

23. TourismRevenue(Annual)from2004 to 2013

24. Plan wiseAdditionto NationalHighwayLength(First Plan
1951-56 to EleventhPlan 2007-12)

25. Money Rates in Indiafrom2000-01 to 2012-13

26. Public ExpenditureRatio (% of GSDP)

28. 2
Apps Using
Open Govt. Data

30. Open Government Data : Potential Impact
Transparency
Accountability
Citizen Engagement
Collaboration
Better Decision making
Economic Development
Innovation

31. Open Government & Open Data
Delivery of Services to Citizen
Setting up a Platform for
Collaboration Innovation
From Direct Delivery of Services to Citizen
Paradigm Shift in Governance

32. OGD : ENGAGE TO DRIVE INNOVATION
Community Engagement
Academia Engagement
Industry Engagement

33. OGD India : Road Ahead
• E-governance Applications/ IT Systems in Government:
Open Data by Design
• APIs to Consume Open Data
• More & More Government Institutions
to release Data in Open Format
• State Governments & Local Government
to adopt Open Data Policy

34. Thank you
#dataportalindia
www.facebook.com/dataportalofindia
data.gov.in
ndsap@gov.in