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For the Indian government it’s very remarkable that (1) they are thinking about open APIs and (2) they’ve published a draft, presumably for feedback although there is no information on how one might provide it.

The title of this post is misleading though. It should be "…input on upcoming policy for Open Data and E-Governance APIs". There is no specific API here, just a rather broad set of guidelines for each government department to build their own APIs.

Most of the actual guidelines seem to be on the three documents linked from this one. Unfortunately two of them are on a domain with certificate errors, and one leads to a 404. Here are the two that work (at least if you accept a certificate issued to egovstandards.gov.in by "Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd."):

https://egovstandards.gov.in/sites/default/files/Published_S...

http://ogpl.gov.in/NDSAP/NDSAP-30Jan2012.pdf

Edit: These documents are only tangentially related to the Open API project. The first one is a broad catalogue of acceptable data formats in “e-governance”, the second are guidelines for how government departments must upload data sets to data.gov.in.




although there is no information on how one might provide it.

On Page 4:

All queries or comments related to the “Policy on Open APIs for Government of India” shall be directed to the Joint Secretary (e-Governance), DeitY at jsegov@deity.gov.in.


Aah, I stand corrected. Although I do hope someone from deity (clever name) also reads HN.




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