Open Budgets India:
Lessons from the front line
Gaurav Godhwani | @gggodhwani
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Government budgets explain real
priorities and values of the state
and its people
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Budgets are
hard to consume &
difficult to understand
But..
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Major issues with India’s Budgets
● Scattered and unstructured PDF documents
● Limited availability of Budgets online
● Inconsistent Formats
● No Metadata
● Inconsistent and incomplete Budget Codes aka Unique IDs
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But these problems are common
across all public information
systems & for civic-tech projects
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Primary Education Public Health
Judiciary Agriculture Drinking Water & Sanitation
Energy
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MAJOR LESSONS
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LESSON #1
Invest on Problem Munging
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150+ Budget Source Websites
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150+ Budget Formats
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Collaborate with Communities
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LESSON #2
Explore existing Data Platforms
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Understand Existing Data Platforms
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LESSON #3
Go the Agile Way
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Process
Development
Cycle
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LESSON #4
Build a Robust Pipeline
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Data Pipeline
Scrape
Parse Transform Publish
Analyse
State of Aadhaar Report - Social Protection, May 2017
http://stateofaadhaar.in/wp-content/uploads/State-of-Aadhaar-Ch5-Social-Protection.pdf
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The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/vineet-john-samuel/the-gorakhpur-and-farrukhabad-tragedies-are-symptoms
-of-a-larger-malaise_a_23194697/
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Collaborate
Help us to:
● Use our tools to analyse your data & write your data stories
● Generate more Open Government Data in your Geography
● Help us improve these algorithms and evolve Codebase
We are open to new ideas, suggestions and feedback
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Attributions
● https://pixabay.com/p-330580/ - AkshayaPatra Foundation at Pixabay [CC0]
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● https://www.meetup.com/DataKind-Bangalore/photos/26368975/460442903/ - DataKind Bangalore, Project Accelerator
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