Community Engagement with Open

Government Data 2012 – 2015

Presented by: Shri D P Misra, NIC

Community stakeholders in OGD

• Citizen Group

• Non Government Organization (NGOs)

• Think Tanks & Research Organization

• Universities and Education Institution in

India

• Academia

• Policy Advocates

Community Engagement: Impact

• Accountable policy making

• Driving Innovation

• Development of Citizen & Community

friendly applications

• Integrating stakeholders

• Promoting economic growth &

industrialization

• Making data application more visible

Community Engagements Accomplished

12th Plan Hackathon

In Pursuit of an Idea

#OpenDataApps Challenge

CMA Hackathon

Code For Honor

Sector Specific Community

Engagements

• OGD Platform is available for hosting any

sector specific engagements

– Environment Community under development

– NEP Hackathon

– Hackathon on Election Data , Census Data etc.

12th Plan Hackathon

6th & 7th April 2013

12th Plan Hackathon6th & 7th April 2013

• Organized in collaboration with PlanningCommission & National Innovation Council

• Create Visualization, Short Movies or Applicationsin 7 Sectors– Macroeconomic Framework

– Agriculture & Rural Development

– Health

– Water & Environment

– Energy

– Education & Skill Development

– Urban Development

12th Plan Hackathon6th & 7th April 2013

Institution Participation Aligarh Muslim University

Delhi University

IIT Hyderabad

IISc Bangalore

IIT Kanpur

IIT Kharagpur

IIT Madras

TISS Mumbai

University of Jammu

Innovation through OGD Platform India

Maternal & Child Care –1st Prize in 12th Five Year Plan Hackathon at IIT Delhi;

Category: Info-graphic

The info-graphic throws light on why and how the 12th Year Plan proposes to improve healthcare conditions (preventive and curable) especially relating to maternal health and child care.

Innovation through OGD Platform India

Help My City –1st Prize in 12th Five Year Plan Hackathon at IIT Delhi;

Category: Applications

The focus of the project is to bridge the gap between the Government and the Citizens by providing an integrated platform where common people can not only raise their problems but also can give suggestions, ask questions and bring some innovative solutions for different sectors as they experience in their daily lives to the government.

In Pursuit of an ‘Idea’

May-July 2013

In Pursuit of an ‘Idea’ Creative Collaboration on Open Government Data

University of Delhi

May 24, 2013

In Pursuit of an ‘Idea’May-July 2013

• Stakeholder: Institute of Informatics &

Communications, University of Delhi &

NIC

• Phase I: Generation of New Ideas

• Phase II: Shape shortlisted ideas into

apps/visualizations/infographics

Innovation through OGD Platform India

India at a Glance -Developed during “In Pursuit of an Idea”

Provides the state-wise information on government approved hotels and tour operators to help users plan for their vacation.

Innovation through OGD Platform India

Exim Guide -Developed during “In Pursuit of an Idea”

A single query window for traders. It provides details on ITC & IEC codes and Trade Associations along with Tariff Calculator. This app is available in Android mobile version as well.

Innovation through OGD Platform India

Alerts for Piped Water -Developed during “In Pursuit of an Idea”

Provides state-wise, district-wise and block/taluk-wise information on piped water supply. Total population in number habitations covered can be drilled down on the Map of India.

# Open Data Challenge

August 8, 2013

#Open Data Challenge August 8, 2013

• NIC in association with NASSCOM to

encourage data driven innovation.

• Creating apps across platforms & devices

• Winner was given an amount of 100,000

INR

#OpenDataApps Challenge Launch, August 8, 2013

Open DataApps Challenge Prize Felicitation,Feb 18, 2014

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Innovation through OGD Platform India

GoTourist Mobile App -Winner of #OpenDataAppsChallenge

GoTourist Mobile App developed by TekMindz, a Noida based IT consulting & technology Services Company. The app is a gateway to information related to government-approved hotels, restaurants, resorts and travel agents.

Innovation through OGD Platform India

Market Watch App -Winner of #OpenDataAppsChallenge

Market Watch app provides the wholesale price information of commodities as per the datasets powered by the OGD Platform for public use. It provides live price updates of commodities from various markets (mandis) across India.

Innovation through OGD Platform India Earth Core App - Winner of #OpenDataAppsChallenge

Earth Core App enables user to detect and utilize the mineral ores hidden deep below the Earth’s crust to provide rich returns to the Indian economy and strengthen it.

It provides the location and miscellaneous information of various ores and minerals. The user can also visualize the quantity and values for the minerals and metals that have been imported and exported in last few years.

• Market Watch is the Winner of Open Data Apps Challenge conducted by Govt. of India & NASSCOM

• FEATURES:

CHECK PRICE: By selecting the combination of commodity and market,

you will get the maximum, model and minimum price of commodities from various markets

around India.

WATCH LIST: In order to get a quick search you can add thecombination of commodity and market to watch list.

QUICK REPORT:

AROUND ME: See the markets around you on Google map and get the market report

MORE LANGUAGES: Support Hindi and English

CMA Hackathon

December 14-15, 2013

CMA HACKATHON,

CMA Hackathon

(December 14-15, 2013)

• Tamil Nadu's Commissionerate of Municipal

Administration (CMA) & NIC came together to encourage

technology geeks to develop apps on urban governance.

• Sectors of Focus

- Water, Waste Water & Solid Waste Management

- Urban Poor

- Streetlights & Roadways

- Health & Sanitation

- Civic Services

Innovation through OGD Platform India

Winners of Commissionerate of Municipal Administration (CMA), Tamil Nadu Hackathon

TrashIt is an Android app to enable crowd sourced garbage reporting. In order to motivate users to participate a gamification element is introduced on this.

KYC – Know Your City is an integrated feedback, information & grievance redressal website for CMA officials and public to connect effectively for a better tomorrow.

State Health Analyzer is to analyze the performance of each ward on the parameters - Health, Road, Sanitation Assign weightage to each area, high performing wards will be highlighted in map.

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Innovation through OGD Platform India

OGD Collaborate with Us initiative - The Great Indian Toilet Tracker

We can find out how the rural sanitation scheme is doing because of the data that is published on the Ministry of the Drinking Water and Sanitation website. This project aims to create simple tools that will demystify the large datasets and compare it to other relevant datasets.

Innovation through OGD Platform India

OGD Collaborate with Us initiative - Know Your Representative

Know Your Representative: With this application users can know the attendance of their representatives in Parliament i.e. Rajya Sabha members and Lok Sabha members.

Code of Honor – Awards 2014

Code for Honor 2014

Code of Honor – Awards 2014

• Microsoft in association with NIC awarded Indian

companies less than 8 years old and less than 200

employees for solution excellence.

• Award-winning company received

-Opportunity to access potential investors to

showcase the Solution

-Initial connection to potential customers

- Prize money of Rs. 200,000

• Winner: Appface Technologies Pvt Ltd for Mandi

Trades App

Features

• Commodity Prices

• Farmer Produce Information

• Auto Geo-Tagging of Farmer

Location

• Map based View of Available

Farm Products

Mandi Trades

Innovation through OGD Platform India

Other Winners of Code for Honor2014 -Microsoft’s award for solution excellence

Let's Carpool (Point 2 Point Solutions, Mumbai) a solution for eco-friendly users, which suggests carpool options based on a user’s travel trends and offers incentive options to promote carpooling. This app was one of the finalists.

Rainbow (Greeno Tech Solutions, Chennai) an information exchange platform for farmers to make informed decisions through the entire life cycle of a crop. This app was one of the finalists.

ICSE 2014, 36th International Conference on

Software Engineering Hyderabad, Jun 7, 2014

ICSE 2014

• NIC, DietY, GoI & IBM Research

organized workshop on Inclusive web

programming.

• Themes of the Workshop

- Open Data

- Web Programming

- Sustainability

AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP• Draw the attention of the Software engineering community to the

research challenges & opportunities in building web apps using

open data for citizens

• Draw the attention on the multi-disciplinary dimension & its impact

on government

• Explore the software life cycle for the web apps including building,

hosting and maintenance, commercialization, upgrades & retirement

• Elaborate a benchmark for testing web applications techniques for

city applications

• Provide a platform for sharing best-practices & discussion

• Understand how governments can help in better usage of their data

ICSE 2014, 36th International Conference on Software Engineering Hyderabad

Workshop Conducted for Data Controllers

Convention Hall, GO Complex, New Delhi

October 5, 2012

Workshop on Open Government Data & Civic Engagement

India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

April 4, 2013

Workshop on NDSAP & Open Government Platform at Shimla June 21, 2013

Statistics Community launch June 29, 2013

Data Portal India wins

eIndia Public Choice Award, July 23, 2013

OGD Platform India wins

CSI-Nihilent e-Governance

Awards 2013-14, December 13, 2014

Open Data Apps Challenge: Developer Community Engagement

Open Data meet with NASSCOM at ADOBE

Open Data meet with NASSCOM at Microsoft,

Open Data meet with NASSCOM at IIIT,

Open Data Meet

with NASSCOM at Wipro,

July 31, 2013

Open Data Camp Hyderabad

Delhi Data Boot Camp, Gurgaon

Open Data Camp, New Delhi

NIUA Dialogue Series V - Open Data for Effective Planning

OGD Platform India – The gateway for Social Entrepreneurship & Innovations

Collaborate with data.gov.in

Suggest new data sets

Innovate new ideas to resolve social issues during Engagement Initiatives

The Journey Continues

Thank You