Community Contributed Open Data in India
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DataMeet runs since 2011 as a volunteer open-data community with an email list of ~2,450 people, archives datasets on GitHub and archive.org, and publishes machine‑readable CSV/sqlite exports and reproducible code. Milestones: mapped parliamentary constituency boundaries from PDFs in 2014, scraped CPCB air quality feeds, compiled ~682 COVID‑19 oxygen‑related deaths, and rescued archived import/export customs data after official removal. Ongoing: trainings for non‑tech users, an MoU with Ministry of Rural Development to release large maps, policy inputs. Core norms: be nice, work in public.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:30Open Data Communities in India
- 1:24Why do we exist
- 4:02Missing Data
- 5:07What we do
- 7:02Uniqueness
- 9:21Ministry of Rural Development
- 10:51Import Export Data
- 12:12NonProfits
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