Emancipating Law and Legal Knowledge by Government and Non-State Actors in India Presentation by : Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Singh Vice-Chancellor, National Law University, Delhi Member, Board of Management, Intl. Association of Universities, Paris Council Member - Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Member – Board of Governors’, Doon School, Dehradun Founding Member, Board of Governors’, Asian Law Institute (ASLI), Singapore Member - Eminent Persons Advisory Group (EPAG) - CCI Vice-President & EXCO Member, SAARCLAW Past -President, Association of Indian Universities (AIU) [email protected]or [email protected]http://nludelhi.ac.in
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Emancipating Law and Legal
Knowledge by Government
and Non-State Actors in India
Presentation by :
Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Singh Vice-Chancellor, National Law University, Delhi
Member, Board of Management, Intl. Association of Universities, Paris
Council Member - Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)
Member – Board of Governors’, Doon School, Dehradun
Founding Member, Board of Governors’,
Asian Law Institute (ASLI), Singapore
Member - Eminent Persons Advisory Group (EPAG) - CCI
Vice-President & EXCO Member, SAARCLAW
Past -President, Association of Indian Universities (AIU)
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these
apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have
an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of
us will have two ideas.” George Bernard Shaw
UN Under Article 19 of Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (UDHR) states:
“Everyone has right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and import information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”.
Open Access to Information Promotes Rule of Law
& Access to Justice
Principles: To Strengthen Democracy of Information
Maximum Disclosure of Information
Obligation to Publish & Dissemination
Promotion of Open Government
Limited Scope of Exceptions
Processes to Facilitate Access
Right to Information Act 2005
• The basic object of the Right to Information Act is to empower
the citizens, promote transparency and accountability in the
working of the Government, contain corruption, and make our
democracy work for the people in real sense.
• The Act is a big step towards making the citizens informed about
the activities of the Government.
Guidelines for National Data Sharing and
Accessibility Policy (NDSAP), 2015
• The NDSAP policy is designed to promote data
sharing and enable access to Government of India
owned data for national planning, development and
awareness.
• The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy
(NDSAP) is applicable to all shareable non-
sensitive data available either in digital or analog
forms but generated using public funds by
various ministries, departments, subordinate
offices, organizations, and agencies of Government
of India as well as of the states
Guidelines for National Data Sharing and
Accessibility Policy (NDSAP), 2015
• The objective of this policy is to facilitate
access to Government of India owned
shareable data through a wide area network,
thereby permitting a wider accessibility and
usage by public
• The principles on which data sharing and
accessibility need to be based include:
openness, flexibility, transparency, quality,
security and efficiency
Open Government Data Platform of India
• Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a
platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of
India.
• The portal is intended to be used by Government of India
Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets,
documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for
public use.
• It intends to increase transparency in the functioning of
Government and also open avenues for many more innovative
uses of Government.
• The base Open Government Data Platform India is a joint
initiative of Government of India and US Government.
Overview of Open Government Data
(OGD) India Platform
Open Government Data Platform of India
( data.gov.in)
Open Government Data Platform of India
Open Government Data Platform of India:
Policies
• Hyperlinking Policy
• Link to External Websites/ Portals
• Privacy Policy
• Personal Information Policy
• Copyright Policy
• Content Moderation & Approval Policy(CMAP)
• Content Review Policy(CRP)
• Content Archival Policy(CAP)
• Blog Disclaimer
Indian Government Agencies supporting
free access to Legal Information
Legal Information
Case Laws
Legislation
Law Reform Reports
Open Access
Journals
Treaties
Executive Resources
Indian Courts Judgments
Indian Courts Judgments are including Supreme Courts
Rules, High Court Judgments, District Courts Decisions
and Tribunal Orders are available under Public domain
and accessible through various web domains mostly
maintained by National Informatics Centre, India.
Indian Courts Judgments
Web portal
Supreme Court of India Website
https://www.sci.gov.in/judgments
Judgment Information System (JUDIS)
http://judis.nic.in/
COURTNIC(Case Status)
http://www.courtnic.nic.in/
Indian Courts (Including Superior and Lower Courts)