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Open Data Week Launched Ministry Of Housing And Urban Affairs:

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs organised Open Data Week, which runs from the 17th to the 21st of January.
 
Highlights: 
  • It promotes the advancement of innovation in the country`s urban ecosystem. Throughout the week, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs would publicise high-quality blogs and data sets about intelligent cities.
  • The information will be made available via an open data portal. In addition, success stories from over sixty cities have already been published on the portal.
  • This is being tested and is only available to experts.
  • As the week is divided into sections, the Open Data Week will demonstrate the benefits of open data, such as innovation, transparency, and efficiency.
  • During the first segment, the ministry will publish APIs, dataset visualisation, and data blogs to the smart city open data portal.
  • This is scheduled to be finished between the 17th and 20th of January. During the second phase, Data Day will be observed.
  • It improves policy strategies and aids the government in the development of new plans. One city can benefit from another`s experiences.
  • It enables greater public accountability. It sheds more light on the evolution of ongoing programmes.
Data Day
  • The Data Day celebration is part of the Open Data Week celebration. It will take place on January 21, 2022.
  • The Data Day celebrations will include seminars, talks, hackathons, and training on various data tracks.
  • The primary goal of the week is to raise awareness of the value of data in today`s digital world.
  • It will create a platform for creating data-use opportunities.
  • The event will raise data awareness. 
  • It will generate new data combinations, which will result in new expertise and information.