Re: Open Government Data - datasets

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:25:23 -0700

Hi Nadim,
At 10:24 11-06-2015, Mohammad Nadim wrote:
>The request for these datasets was made my a friend of mine, which I
>forwarded to you. My friend is not aware what Open Data really
>means. I know OGD are raw data, hence we won't be having percentages
>or breakdowns. It's up to us to process the datasets and produce
>meaningful information.
>
>I don't think we can ask for these data, unless we verify whether
>they are available and they can be obtained from the government or
>any government agency.
>
>Questions:
>What will be the procedure to ask, in the future, for datasets that
>we have not been asked yet?
>Whom to ask the datasets?

At 10:29 11-06-2015, Mohammad Nadim wrote:
>What will be the procedure to ask, in the future, for datasets that
>have not been asked yet?

Someone actually asked about this during the workshop on Monday. I
doubt that there will be a procedure in the short term. There will
be a point of contact for Open Government Data in Mauritius. I
suggest contacting that person for requests for datasets. In my
opinion, it is useful to verify that the data is already
available. It was also mentioned on Monday that the focus would be
on data which is already available instead of data which will have to
be compiled.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Thu Jun 11 2015 - 20:26:22 PST