A mobile-first, network-light, community maintained, de-centralized Open Government Data portal.

• by Karan Sapolia and Contributors

Namaste! 🙏🏻 Hola! Hello! Adaab! Welcome to the India.data code repo

Aim

India.data helps you visualize and chart Indian Survey data including OGD(Open Government Data) right from your mobile device, without the need of any in-depth knowledge about using CSVs, Excel sheets, etc. The website will provide detailed and interactive maps and charts to infer from the OGD data.

We already have data.gov.in. Why another data portal?

The Government of India has made a lot of public data available through its data.gov.in portal and made it publicly reusable and accessible to all by following the Government Open Data License - India.

Problem

The data portal provides datasets for personal usage and inference and also offers APIs to use the data in third-party projects and offers data visualizations to a certain extent. But a very critical use-case is not addressed in the current state of the data portal and that is that most of the Citizens of India have mobile devices (mobile phones) as their primary and maybe only computing device. Other that most of these mobile devices access the internet through 4G, 3G and 2G data networks. This implies that there is a need for a data portal which is mobile-friendly and network-light. Currently, data.gov.in does not address this problem and hence widespread public use of Indian Government Data is not possible by citizens at the moment.

Solution

India.data aims to address this problem. It aims to be a lighweight, mobile-friendly and easy-to-use community maintained data portal which sources data from various publicly available sources and allows all citizens, even those in the remotest of villages to access and infer from OGD data easily.

Using India.data

The project will be available as a completed website for all to use. You can clone and use the project source code from this repo.

Engage and find out more

• The project Documentation is currently being developed and will be available soon.
• You can also read the project License.
• Or go through the list of Contributors.

Contributing to India.data

In case you do not find the way you would like to contribute to the project, go through the project issues and start contributing on one or create a new issue and let us know.

India.data is currently in a nascent stage, and while the contribution guidelines will be defined later, currently you can find project goals and aims using these documents and start contributing to the project:

• The project aims can be found in the Project Open Canvas
• And the Project Roadmap lists some preliminary goals for which you can start working.

This project is currently follolwing the Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines.

Current Data Sources :

• data.gov.in

License

You are free to copy, modify, and distribute India.data with attribution under the terms of the MIT license. See the License file for details. If you find it useful please acknowledge that by citing India.data (see below).