Whose Open Data Community is it? - Accepted Abstract —

"On February 04, 2013, several members of the DataMeet group were invited by the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy ­Project Management Unit (NDSAP­-PMU) – the nodal agency responsible for developing, implementing, and managing the Open Government Data Platform of India – to share thoughts on the status of the implementation of the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP), the open data policy of India, and discuss potentials for collaboration. A key proposal made by the NDSAP­PMU team regarding how DataMeet can contribute to the implementation process, involved DataMeet mobilising the developer community connected to the group to build applications that use the opened up data and demonstrate the value of open government data to drive greater contribution by government agencies and greater utilisation by citizen groups. For DataMeet, a network of open data users and advocates, this invitation to collaborate sets up a slightly different problematic than that in most of the cases of free and open source software development project. The task here is to develop projects that use already available data, which may not offer significantly return to investment at present, but will accellerate the process of opening up of more valuable government data ..."