Workshop on Open Government Data (OGD) and Energy Resources

TERI with support from the World Wide Web Foundation and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) organized a dissemination workshop on 'Open Government Data and Energy Resources' on 8 July 2014 at TERI.

The workshop sought to share the findings of TERI's study on 'Open Government Data for Regulation of Energy Resources'. The focus of this yearlong study was on the upstream coal and oil & gas sectors in India. It identified governance challenges in the two sectors and examined the status of availability and accessibility of data towards improving the working of these sectors. This workshop brought together stakeholders from the government, industry, academia, think tanks and civil society. The stakeholders enriched the study with their views and experience, particularly with respect to the government policy on open data and issues in data collection within the government, the linkages between Right to Information and Open Data, data issues in the upstream energy, particularly on aspects that impact communities, and suggestions on improving data availability and quality.