The State Government on Friday decided to roll out data through the Odisha Spatial Data Infrastructure (OSDI) from January 1, 2016.
The planners, academicians, research scholars and other data users would be benefitted due to OSDI operation.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting held under chairmanship of Chief Secretary GC Pati at the State Secretariat here. ORSAC Chief Executive Sandeep Tripathy presented the updates.
Pati directed to start rolling out of the data base from January 1, 2016 in phases and make it fully operational by August 2016. He directed the ORSAC to work out a draft MoU in consultation with the NIC for storing of data in meghraj for facilitating cloud sourcing.
It was also decided that the non-spatial data of OSDI would also be shared with www.data.gov.in as a part of wider transparency measures.
All Government departments have been directed to prepare and provide the database to ORSAC within scheduled time and nominate one nodal officer for data dissemination and standardization, an official release informed.
The OSDI is meant to facilitate easy access and sharing of Government data in open format for inclusive governance, effective planning, implementation and monitoring of developmental programmes, management and mitigation of disasters, use of the scientific research for decision making.
The Government had approved the State Data Policy on August 13, 2015 formulated by the Science and Technology Department.
Specific fund of around Rs5 crore has been made from State and Central sources. The central data base would be installed at the Odisha State Data Centre (OSDC) in the OCAC premises. The Centre would be connected to database of different departments of Odisha and NSDI.