“While Government prepares to release datasets, the civil society, developer community, business entrepreneurs and even citizens can join together to develop wide variety of innovative apps around government datasets that can facilitate better delivery of government services,” says Neeta Verma, Country Lead, Data Portal of India, National Informatics Centre, DeitY, Government of India
Open data is ‘non-personally identifiable data’ collected, compiled or produced in the process of organisation’s routine functioning and later on released under an unrestricted license. Open data is freely available for everyone to use, reuse and distribute, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other means of control. Open Data is catching a lot of attention with organisations all over the world. The objective of the open data movement is similar to those of other “Open” movements such as open source, open content, and open access. Though the concept of Open data is not new, it is gaining prominence with the proliferation of the Internet, World Wide Web and most importantly availability of huge amount of data in digital form.
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