ILDC2018: Master Class on Open Data Awareness Raising by Land Portal | India Land And Development Conference

"Laura Meggiolaro and Lissette Mey from Land Portal opened the Master Class at the beginning of the Day 2 of ILDC 2018 with an objective to raise awareness on the open data system and the challenges thereof. Access to information is crucial to achieve good land governance. An enormous amount of information is published in the web every day, yet the issue of accessibility, consistency and reliability still remain. India being one of the most advanced Open Data policy in the world, but still ranks low in the global Open Data barometer....

For open knowledge intervention, Land Portal have outlined FAIR principles for open data system, which narrated as Findable (easily discoverable on the web), Accessible (available for anyone without barrios viz. payment/ long in etc.), Inter-operable (needs to be In formats that allow machines to read and understand) and Re-usable (openly licensed that allows users to use and build on data and sufficient information about source of information)....

India pilot by NRMC have developed a methodology which could be used as a tool in generating data. 59% of the data is provided on land and looking at the affordability of land information. 82.2% of the data are for free and paid access are only 6.9%. Although there are open data available and the government making efforts to make it more accessible, but there are many constraints since only 10% is licensed as open data. Everyone publishing data should feel responsible to publish legally and technically open...."