The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is launching an Open Data Week, which will see 100 of the country’s smart cities publishing high quality datasets and data blogs on an open portal.
India has launched an Open Data Week (17-21 January 2022) to encourage adoption of open data and promote innovation across India’s urban ecosystem.
Leading up to the “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav – Smart Cities: Smart Urbanisation” conference scheduled to be held in Surat, during February 2022, the Open Data Week is part of a series of pre-event initiatives being undertaken by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) to promote awareness and use of open data.
Actionable insights
The event will see participation from all of India’s 100 smart cities programme that will be publishing high quality datasets and data blogs on the Smart Cities Open Data Portal. Presently, more than 3,800 datasets and more than 60 data stories are already available on the portal to various stakeholders to analyse this data and uncover actionable insights.
The event aims to show the benefits of open data such as increased efficiency, transparency, a spur in innovation, and economic growth. It is divided into two segments – first, uploading of datasets, visualisations, APIs and data blogs on the portal until 20 January. This will be followed by celebration of a Data Day by all smart cities on 21 January.
The Data Day will take place nationally across all smart cities and will include talks, seminars, hackathons, demonstrations, and training on different data tracks identified by the cities.
The day will see engagement of people from different backgrounds including government agencies, private sector enterprises, scientific and academic institutions, businesses, start-ups, and civil society. The idea is to provide a platform that offers ample opportunities on how to continue creating and promoting the use of data that addresses complex urban issues like the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
According to MoHUA, the event has been designed to promote use of and spread awareness about data. There are also many different groups of people and organisations which can benefit from the availability of quality data.
New combinations of data can create new knowledge and insight, which can lead to whole new fields of application that can help governments in solving some of the most common problems faced by the any city, MoHUA notes.
Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is an initiative of the Indian government to celebrate and commemorate 75 years of the country’s history and progress.
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Quelle/Source: Smart Cities World, 17.01.2022
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