Key facts
- Aimed at collating government data, scattered across multiple sources for the consumption of policymakers, researchers, students, and journalists, the Indian School of Business (ISB) have developed a onestop open data portal, focusing on information related to agriculture.
- In the age where the credibility of information is being questioned and scrutinized, often with good reason, a platform with credible data can be a game-changer. India Data Portal (IDP) incubated at ISB’s Bharti Institute of Public Policy is a platform that has data from multiple disciplines, subjects, and areas. In the first phase, the focus is on agriculture data, and in later phases, the portal will diversify to include datasets on financial inclusion, rural development, etc
- Pointing out that IDP aims to integrate journalists as it’s ambassadors and fellows the major challenge faced by journalists in India is accessing and collating government data scattered across multiple sources for analysis and generating data-driven stories.
- Mostly, data is available at different locations generally in accessible formats, which then requires extra effort in converting them into a format that can be analyzed. In other cases, even if the data is easily available, comparing it across geographies becomes a considerable challenge. These issues of unavailability of organized and linked data and inadequate platforms for rapid visualizations are addressed by the IDP
Source: The Hindu
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