White House Circular No. A-130 Revised: This Circular establishes policy for the management of Federal information resources. It includes a detailed set of procedural and analytic guidelines for implementing open data policies. It provides a useful background reading for those interested in practical aspects of open data policy.
Vivek Srinivasan
Open Data Policy Comparison: Best Practices: Spreadsheet on various aspects of open data policies that are coming up in federal, state, county and city levels in the US. Each policy is evaluated based on a number of parametres that helps assess how far the law will go in making government data truely open.
A small, but growing collection of my bookmarks on the Unique Identity Project of India Academic publications
Unique ID Project (Aadhar): Academic publications
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Unable to reach Stanford.edu subdomains: Fix
A spectacular defeat like the one suffered by the United Progressive Alliance II government could not have happened without a confluence of reasons. A consistent and careful messaging by the opposition and organisational and financial muscle of the BJP, among other things clearly played a role in UPA’s loss. What one cannot deny is that UPA II lost public confidence based on its abysmal record in office over the last five years. I’d like to focus today on one factor that created the greatest anger against the UPA and one more that gave people no reason to support it unlike […]
What broke UPA II
1 An appeal to a 11 month old not to grow up too fast...
Don’t grow up too fast
There have been many racist-like commentaries on rural and poor voters by the urban elite in this election season in India. Where would this lead us?
Urban arrogance in India’s elections
Just learned that one of the first to welcome me to the US is now gone. Pepsi, the adorable lab, with all her energy and love was a constant companion during my first five years in this country. There is so much to remember about Pepsi. Our long walks. Her “let’s play” look, and how she mistook me for my cousin– or should I say, her ‘dad’ – once. I will remember for a long time how I had to open the bedroom door when it was time to sleep and race to bed before Pepsi could occupy the whole […]
To a ‘Pepsi’ I loved
A note and some pictures from a bittersweet visit to the place where Gandhi sat on a fast for peace at the dawn of India's independence. Hyderi Mansion (Calcutta) lies in shambles today, much like his memory.
Hyderi Mansion: Gandhi’s greatest moment in shambles
As an active listener, I often nod my head as I listen to people. Turns out that I do it a little more vigorously than most other people – and this has become a trademark. During a visit to a very remote village in Rajasthan, all the children of the village followed me for a whole day. They would ask me questions and when I nodded in agreement every one of them nodded with squeals of laughter. My nodding also has its South Indian touch to it, and so I nod slightly differently when I answer in the affirmative or […]
You’ve got my nod
Google scholar has started a facility for us to build libraries (see announcement) of articles that we are interested in. I am not sure how useful this will be since I have to maintain a library in my citation manager in any case (I use zotero now and have used Refworks in the past). The Library allows us to save articles while we are searching for them and it can also give us recommendations based on the library (which Zotero cannot do). That could be a useful feature temporarily as we search. The coolest feature so far is that it can […]
Google Scholar adds a library feature
On leaving you at the day-care for the first time.
Letters from a father to a daughter
A small, but growing collection of my bookmarks on the Unique Identity Project of India Academic publications Other articles
Unique Identity Project (Aadhar): Useful links
Regulating ‘freebies’ in manifestoes would be regressive and unwise.
On regulating freebies in election manifestoes
A collection of links from sources as diverse as the RSS, CPI-ML, Mili Gazette, India Together and the Dalit News Network. All too often we read news from just the sources that are ideologically aligned to us. I created this page in order to break from this tradition so that I am acquainted with views from diverse sources – whether or not I agree with them. The links will be updated as and when the websites are updated. Bookmark it to stay updated. If you would like to import the feed into your own website or reader, click here. [inline] […]
Diverse opinions from India
Some people are in a crisis and others are enjoying prosperity...who should the government help? A serious policy debate.
People without a crisis
Hot News I’ve been wondering how I would announce the gender of our child once we found out. My initial thought? If it’s a girl, I’d deck out my website in pink with balloons floating around. For a boy? I drew a blank. That thought barely lasted a few seconds before I cringed at myself for boxing our child-to-be into stereotypical colors. Honestly, I’ve loved pink for ages. I still remember a primary school shopping trip when I confidently asked the saleswoman for pink undergarments. She responded with, “Are you Muslim?” To this day, I’m unsure what led her to […]
It’s a…
Joy, fear, pride, panic, love, relief—and a whole thesaurus of other emotions—could have described how I felt when Dr. K delivered the news. But if I’m honest, my dominant reaction was a shrug and a casual, “Eh, okay.” I mean, it wasn’t like Apple had announced a new iPad, right? No pre-order excitement or tech specs to obsess over for months. What we were dealing with here was just a tiny organism—twenty cells, tops—dividing itself like bacteria and freeloading in its temporary shelter. Not exactly front-page news, if you ask me. In my mind, the process was simple: people did […]
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