Dear Ish
Thank you for your email.
Please find below our inputs on the issues raised in your email:
A. ODRA
The Ministry is finalsing its study of the ODRA. We wish to soon move on the lines we indicated before as part of the validation workshop we had together with the World Bank.
B. Open data portal
As part of the discussions we had at the time of the validation workshop on the ODRA, it was understood that we would use sharepoint for the open data portal in the initial phase and eventually come up with a full fledged open data portal using open source. However, after further discussions with the World Bank consultants during the last year, we found it more beneficial to go straight to the open data portal using open source solutions - hence the tender. We also listed some datasets for release as part of the services to be provided under the tender.
An incremental approach for the release of prioritised datasets would be followed as soon as the open data portal is launched with some initial datasets.
Regards
Rajnish Hawabhay
Chief Technical Officer
Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation
Level 6, SICOM Tower,
Wall Street,
EBENE
REPUBLIC OF MAURITIUS
Email: rhawabhay_at_govmu.org | Web:
http://mtci.govmu.org
From: <ish_at_hacklog.in<mailto:ish_at_hacklog.in>> on behalf of Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.mu<mailto:ish_at_hacklog.mu>>
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 12:16 PM
To: Rajnish Hawabhay <rhawabhay_at_govmu.org<mailto:rhawabhay_at_govmu.org>>
Cc: "mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com<mailto:mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com>" <mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com<mailto:mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com>>
Subject: Mauritius ODRA report
Dear Rajnish,
I hope you're doing well.
I read
http://lists.elandnews.com/archive/mauritius/internet-users/2017/01/5920.html and I concur with S. Moonesamy's observation.
I recall Anat Lewin, Operations Officer at the World Bank, saying that the ODRA report will be made available to the Government of Mauritius and the latter will decide regarding its public availability. Several of the participants in the assessment expressed their wish to obtain a copy of the report. Is the report publicly available?
I quote from the Government website (
http://www.govmu.org/English/News/Pages/Open-Data-Readiness-Mauritius-well-positioned-to-start-implementing.aspx):
« Some benefits of open data include: transparency and accountability (civil society organisations and media will analyse the data and publish results feeding into policy); data exchange across government (obtaining datasets within government becomes easier); and data-informed policy making (policymakers base their decisions on applicable, relevant data). »
Does the Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation give a good example of transparency and accountability by refusing/delaying to publish the ODRA report?
I also read the "bidding documents" for the supply, installation and commissioning of an open data portal for the Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation (MTCI/10/2016-2017). While I am happy with Section 3.1 as it requires the data portal to be in line with the Open Source Strategy and Policy of the Government, it does at the same time disappoint me to find that the ministry opted to set up a new portal rather than using an existing platform for publishing of datasets.
It was agreed by most of the participants in the assessment that the release of datasets should prioritize setting up of a new platform. It was also suggested that while the various ministries gather up their datasets for release; those datasets could incrementally be made available through the government portal (on MS Sharepoint) or through the data portal of Statistics Mauritius (
http://dataportal.statsmauritius.govmu.org). Is there any technical constraint on using the Prognoz data portal of the Statistics Mauritius which was set up in 2013?
Regards,
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Ish Sookun
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