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ICANN Begins its Sojourn into Open Data
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by
Padmini Baruah and Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Nov 11, 2016
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last modified
Nov 12, 2016 01:17 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
ICANN,
internet governance
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently announced that it will now set up a pilot project in order to introduce an Open Data initiative for all data that it generates. We would like to extend our congratulations to ICANN on the development of this commendable new initiative, and would be honoured to support the creation of this living document to be prepared before ICANN 58.
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Internet Governance
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Open Data in Cultural Heritage – OpenGLAM in Germany
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 10, 2014
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last modified
Jul 28, 2014 09:49 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Access to Knowledge,
Openness
Subhashish Panigrahi took part in this event as a member of the OpenGLAM Working Group.
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News & Media
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Open Government Data Study
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
May 20, 2011
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last modified
Sep 03, 2015 08:08 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Featured,
Publications,
Openness
CIS produced a report on the state of open government data in India, looking at policy, infrastructure, and particular case studies, as well as emerging concerns, future strategies and recommendations. The report is authored by Glover Wright, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham, and Nishant Shah. We are grateful to the Transparency and Accountability Initiative for providing generous funding for this report.
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Openness
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Civic Hacking Workshop
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 28, 2010
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 03:14 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Workshop,
Digital Governance,
Openness
CIS, with the UK Government's Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office Team for Digital Engagement, and Google India, is organizing a workshop on open data (or the lack thereof) and 'civic hacking'.
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Openness
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Call for Comments for Report on Open Government Data in India
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 24, 2010
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last modified
Mar 01, 2013 05:50 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Featured,
Openness
The Centre for Internet & Society is pleased to announce a public call for comments on the Report on Open Government Data in India prepared by Glover Wright, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham and Nishant Shah.
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Openness
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Opening Government: A Guide to Best Practice in Transparency, Accountability and Civic Engagement across the Public Sector
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 21, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM
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filed under:
Digital Governance,
Open Data,
Public Accountability,
Openness,
e-governance
The Transparency & Accountability Initiative has published a book called “Opening Government: A Guide to Best Practice in Transparency, Accountability and Civic Engagement across the Public Sector”. We at the Centre for Internet & Society contributed the section on Open Government Data.
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Openness
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Comments on the draft National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jun 08, 2011
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last modified
Aug 24, 2011 06:32 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Open Data,
Submissions,
Openness
A draft of the 'National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy', which some hope will be the open data policy of India, was made available for public comments in early May. This is what the Centre for Internet and Society submitted.
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Openness
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Open Government Data in India (v2)
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 19, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:25 AM
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filed under:
Call for Comments,
Open Data,
Featured,
Openness,
e-governance
The first draft of the second version of the Open Government Data Report is now online. Nisha Thompson worked on updating the first version of the report. This updated version of the report on open government data in India includes additional case studies as well as a potential policy (National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy) that would create a central government data portal. The report was distributed for peer review and public feedback.
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Openness
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Blog
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Open Government Platform: An Open Source Solution to Democratizing Access to Information and Energizing Civic Engagement
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by
Neeta Verma, Alka Mishra and D.P. Mishra
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published
Nov 19, 2012
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filed under:
Open Data,
Open Content,
Openness
If government could release these datasets in open format for people to use & reuse, a whole lot of new innovative apps could be built around these datasets to provide better, customized services to citizens.
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Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
May 30, 2013
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last modified
Jul 17, 2013 06:33 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Digital Governance,
Digital Access,
Open Data,
Open Content,
Open Access,
Openness,
Open Innovation
On May 13, 2013, the Access to Knowledge team led by Subhashish Panigrahi conducted a Wikipedia Introductory Session at the National Informatics Centre in New Delhi for the consultants working for Data and India portal. This session was aimed to emphasize how these portals and their useful data could be used on Wikipedia to create good quality articles.
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