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2008/8/29 <joyojeet@...>
> We are a group of students/researchers from TIER, UC Berkeley and DAIICT,
> Gandhinagar working on developing a system for data management and
> dissemination of data about the implementation of rural development
> projects in India under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
> (NREGA) (http://nrega.nic.in). Our main focus in developing the system is
> a flexible user friendly interface and active participation of general
> public in the system. We have used visualizations as a medium for
> publishing the data and enabled an annotation feature for the
> visualizations for users to make comments on the data and discuss and
> developed tools for cross verifying financial records at social audits.
There may be a need to interpolate the individual records (primarily the person and works data) from individual panchayats into a district level database. Creating an XML based data storage will facilitate that.
Atanu Garai
2008/8/29 <joyojeet@...>
> We are a group of students/researchers from TIER, UC Berkeley and DAIICT,
> Gandhinagar working on developing a system for data management and
> dissemination of data about the implementation of rural development
> projects in India under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
> (NREGA) (http://nrega.nic.in). Our main focus in developing the system is
> a flexible user friendly interface and active participation of general
> public in the system. We have used visualizations as a medium for
> publishing the data and enabled an annotation feature for the
> visualizations for users to make comments on the data and discuss and
> developed tools for cross verifying financial records at social audits.
There may be a need to interpolate the individual records (primarily the person and works data) from individual panchayats into a district level database. Creating an XML based data storage will facilitate that.
Atanu Garai