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Public consultation on Government Open Data Use License - India

Start Date :

Jun 24, 2016

Last Date :

Jul 26, 2016

00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)

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Under 6th pillar of digital India Initiative, Open Government Data Platform is endeavoring share of Government data in open domain to improve openness and transparency between ...

Under 6th pillar of digital India Initiative, Open Government Data Platform is endeavoring share of Government data in open domain to improve openness and transparency between Government and the public, encouraging participation of the community and emphasizing data driven decision making to enable the delivery of integrated services.

Structured data available in open format and open license for public access and use, usually termed as “Open Data,” it allows citizens and businesses to find new ways to use it and to create new innovative products and services. The Open Government Data initiative started in India with the notification of the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP), on 17th March 2012 & in pursuance of the policy, the Open Government Data Platform India (data.gov.in) was launched in 2012.

Data also is one of the most valuable resources of modern governance, sharing of which enables various and non-exclusive usages for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Associating an Open License with Open Data is necessary to ensure the legal grounding for its potential reuse and also is crucial to ensure that such data is not misused or misinterpreted (for example, by insisting on proper attribution), and that all users have the same and permanent right to use the data. For a data user wishing to use and build on top of public data, they require assurance of what they legally can and can’t do with the data both commercially and non-commercially. To promote access to publicly held information, promoting transparency and enabling wider economic and social gain, need has been felt in the Government that there must be an Open Government Data Use License.

Government Open Data Use License - India has been drafted by the Suresh Chandra (Law Secretary, Department of Legal Affairs) Committee. After several rounds of discussions and deliberations the committee has finalized the draft of the license.

General public and stake-holders including open data community members, professionals, academicians, data scientists, NGOs, institutions, government bodies, etc. in the field of open data production, consumption and management are hereby solicited to send their suggestions on draft Government Open Data Use License - India.

You are requested to type your suggestion in the given box. Please mention the Clause number on which you want to suggest.Please put a ‘#’ sign before the Clause number. You can refer the following example:
#Clause4: Followed by your Suggestion.

You can also upload a pdf file compiling all your suggestions.

Please refer the full text of:
Government Open Data Use License – India (Draft)
National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP)

Last date of submission is July 25, 2016.

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AMAN BARANWAL 9 years 11 months ago

In my opinion, I am only wanting to share that if the benefit side of Open Data Use or NDSAP is more and if it is accessible to all the sites not only to social networking sites, then only it is useful otherwise it is a crap as social networking sites have harmful effects more than that of its usefulness like Chatting with awkward topics or gossiping and time wasting... Govt. should think over it that which side is better for which age groups. There must be a division among them. Thank You...

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neeraj patil 9 years 11 months ago

Make data plans affordable to farmers students or strictly make compulsion to all data service providers to provide free data services for websites like all government websites of every department, students websites, agriculture information or farm goods dealing websites, Job providers websites, GPS tracking, matrimonial website, whether information, emergency services free of cost with fast data transfer speed at least 3G. Please sir Do this for better future of our country

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Suchitra Nair 9 years 11 months ago

#MyGov: Waste management: E-waste, chemical and harmful by products of factories and urban population should be tracked and dealt with. There are economical and green way of recycling waste and there are companies out there that can convert this waste into valuable products. If there are types of waste that still doesn't have a safe way of disposal, research in that area needs to be initiated and if possible, temporarily suspend usage of those sources. All of this can be data driven.

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narasimman ramiah 9 years 11 months ago

I have worked on many corporate's BI and Data Warehousing projects. Now I am working on Big Data. The purpose of creating a Data Warehouse is there is only one truth about the company. But it is very difficult to achieve. The data gov body need to concentrate on this first. How two or more departments are not going to give different data for the same subject (even spelling mistakes of citi's names will become a huge problem). If there is a difference, how to resolve them.

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arushi gaur 9 years 11 months ago

#OGD That's a really great idea...nd a great initiative though I would like to suggest to have some restrictions as open data can be used for wrong purposes...like,maybe,d users with aadhar card only can have the access to it and should have a password for it...nd others who are not Indians and don't have aadhar card and are in India for work...should have some other process... This is just a suggestion...but something of that kind should be done...

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George Vergese 9 years 11 months ago

I was at the PMO yesterday (20th July 2016) to discuss four innovative Projects, each socially relevent, and World First. I was told that despite the Projects' innovativeness, for implementation, the Government "will have to go through the tendering process". I ask, in that case, what is the incentive to the innovator and what reward does the innovator get for the innovative Project, if all can bid?

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narasimman ramiah 9 years 11 months ago

Another thing is that continuous maintenance and updating the data. As we all know, there are so many rules in India, but no one follows it. As the apex data body, how this department is going to make sure that the data is updated periodically and the servers are maintained correctly. Otherwise, somebody will use the servers to store their household expenses....

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nikhil_191 9 years 11 months ago

I highly appreciate this initiative by the #government. I will say that the data regarding the Research in the Society, Government ventures and data which is helpful to the Startups should be made available.

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Aniruddha Achyut Lele 9 years 11 months ago

I think the speed of internet is absolutely disgusting. 3G 4G are for name sake only. There are number of countries who give internet speed of 28 Mbps. It is my humble request to government to work on it. If we get high speed internet everything will become easy. Secondly if we can get mobile range direct through satellite then then connectivity problem will be solved as in no.of villages we are unable to get mobile range.also in emergency situation we must be able to contact emergency nos

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narasimman ramiah 9 years 11 months ago

The Indian Govt is so big and it has diversified portfolios. The Govt, Open Data should set the policies like authentication, authorization, classification of the date, usage of the data etc. The individual departments should follow the rules and add specifics with respect to their data. The natural resources's data is completely different from the postal data. Instead of one platform managing the entire data, it should be managed as sub platforms.

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