Dear Mr Sookun
Your email contains a number of requests for datasets that would bring
value to the you and the community at large. I will share them with the
World Bank officers so that they can better prepare for the Open Data
Readiness Assessment exercise.
Please keep sending your requests as these will help guide the way forward
and produce an Open Data platform that responds to citizen and business
needs.
Kindly share your contact number so that we can link up in view of the
forthcoming exercise.
Regards
Rajnish Hawabhay
From: Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.in>
Reply-To: <ishwon_at_openSUSE.org>
Date: Monday, May 25, 2015 at 9:58 PM
To: Rajnish Hawabhay <rhawabhay_at_govmu.org>
Cc: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>, Shehneez Burokur
<shburokur_at_govmu.org>, Rookayah Bibi Murtuza <rmurtuza_at_govmu.org>,
"mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com"
<mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com>
Subject: Re: Mauritius Open Data Readiness Assessment
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 <
http://lexpress.mu> [3] cited numbers & percentages
but I could not find any such data on icta.mu <
http://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?
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