Dear Mr Hawabhay,
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Rajnish Hawabhay <rhawabhay_at_govmu.org>
wrote:
>
> The readiness assessment will provide a valuable consultative platform to
> identify datasets that need to be released because demand exists for them.
> However, we are thinking of starting with budget, labour and other stats
> that are already in public domain but need to be structured to confirm to
> Open Data principles.
>
​Thank you for the clarification.
I am the PR of the Linux User Group Meta / Mauritius. Recently, I
participated with JCI City Plus to set up a Raspberry Pi based lab[1] at
Nicolay Govt School. The project also aimed at developing software for Std
IV/V/VI students. We decided to produce software in the Mauritian context,
that is, applications that could help students overcome their curriculum
needs.
To be able to achieve the same I need data that can help assess students
needs. I will have to study the scores and success rates of schools. I need
to map the success of students vis-Ã -vis the environment they're exposed to
and facilities they have. Can the Ministry of Education provide such data
in an open format? Number of students in schools, subjects taught,
availability of IT equipment, pass & fail rates over years etc. In order to
provide an app that "helps" students, it needs to be identified what they
lack and how to bridge the gap.
In 2013, I participated in Orange Code Challenge[2] and my team won the
second prize. Our idea was to develop a mobile application that could
provide the itinerary of buses, the time they will reach bus-stops, number
of passengers already in the bus and provide a reporting feature to the bus
owner. After the competition we thought of putting life to that idea. The
starting point was to get the bus itinerary, proper and detailed road maps
of Mauritius, number of individual bus owners in each region etc. I had a
full-time job and it was not easy to get those by digging the Government
Web Portal or other websites. The idea died due to the time consumed to
gather those data.
I am a blogger and I often write technical articles. Some of those articles
require an analysis and proper references to support them. Press articles
usually fail to provide a reference when citing numbers. For example, an
article in lexpress.mu[3] cited numbers & percentages but I could not find
any such data on icta.mu.
I can go on with examples but I would prefer keep the discussion for the
workshop so that others may participate in the same.
[1]
http://hacklog.in/raspberry-pi-lab-nicolay-government-school​
[2]
http://hacklog.in/code-challenge-2013
[3]
http://www.lexpress.mu/article/261172/telephonie-sms-meurt-lentement
Regards,
--
​Ish Sookun
- Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
- I blog at HACKLOG.in.
https://twitter.com/IshSookun ^^ Do you tweet?
Received on Mon May 25 2015 - 17:58:51 PST