NDSAP aims to provide an enabling provision and platform for proactive and open access to the data generated by various Government of India entities. The objective of this policy is to facilitate access to Government of India owned shareable data (along with its usage information) in machine readable...

A one-day awareness workshop on National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy and Open Government Platform was held at Shimla on 21-June-2013 under the Chairpersonship of Sh. P.C. Dhiman IAS, Principal Secretary (Information Technology) to the Government of Himachal Pradesh. About 80 officers from...

 It has been almost a year and 852 datasets and counting.  Data Portal India (http://data.gov.in), an Indian Government Open data initiative has come a long way, it all started with GOI announcing the NDSAP (http://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/NDSAP.pdf) and National Informatics Centre,...

With the goal to discuss the important aspects of Open Government Data & Civic Engagement, National Informatics Centre (NIC) conducted a workshop on April 4, 2013 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Though primarily the workshop was targeted at Data Controllers nominated by various Ministries/...

A National Awards Ceremony to honour the winners of the Hackathon was held at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 1st November 2018. The awardees were felicitated by Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Honorable Minister of Law & Justice and Electronics & Information Technology, in the...