India’s constitution is now on GitHub | ITworld

"The open data movement, that is, the effort to make public data freely available in machine readable formats under open licenses, has led to more and more information that governments collect to be made open. One type of data increasingly being made available in this way is legislation. In recent years, individuals have taken it upon themselves to put national laws for numerous countries (some portion of them, at least, along with their full history of changes) including the United States, France, and Germany, among others, into GitHub repositories. Now, another country’s federal laws are available on GitHub: India. Six TED Talks that can change your career These talks will help you reshape how you approach work and see your career in a new light. READ NOW A GitHub user who goes by the handle anoopdixith recently created a repository to store the constitution of India, originally written in 1949, including all 99 of the amendments that have been subsequently adopted. The work was inspired by a discussion thread on Reddit. The repository has made every amendment a release, each of which contains a bundle of files including the Articles and Entries in PDF and text formats. The commit authors for each release are set to the politicians who passed the bill ..."