Tag: opencity

• Making Sense of Data behind data

  Meta Data For Urban Data  Portal OpenCity ” MetaData absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata you don’t really need content…[It’s] sort of embarrassing how predictable we are as human beings.”                                            – Stewart Baker As David Weinberger said “To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata”. Metadata contain information needed…

  Kurund Jalmi

  May 6, 2021

• Open City: Asking the right questions

  As part of the Tech4Dev cohort, in March 2020, we kickstarted the re-design of Open City, a city level data repository hosted and developed by Oorvani Foundation and Data Meet. The purpose of the redesign was to make the platform more accessible and user friendly.  It was exciting to start this because it let us…

  Kurund Jalmi

  August 31, 2020

• WHEN COOKIES TELL STORIES: insights for opencity from google analytics

  Three months ago, Oorvani Foundation and CivicDataLab embarked on a collaborative journey to redesign OpenCity, an urban data portal visited by over 50,000 unique users every month. We set out to learn about our users, their experiences on the platform and their dreams for the future of this city based open data hub. An important…

  Kurund Jalmi

  July 6, 2020

• Redesigning a city-level data platform

  In the age of urbanisation that’s seeing cities grow at a fast pace. Meaning larger, more diverse problems in urban planning. In such challenging times, an open data platform that captures and gives access to quality city data would help drive better citizen-led governance and arrive at collaborative ways to address the rising urban challenges.…

  Kurund Jalmi

  March 16, 2020