India, US start ‘Open Government Platform’

June 13, 2012

India and the United States inaugurated the Open Government Platform (OGPL)

Objective of OGPL:

It is a bilateral effort focused at foment transparency and increase citizen engagement by making government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available.
It was launched at US-India joint commission meeting on science and technology Cooperation
OGPL is built on open source code and will be freely available to any government around the world.
India and US have expanded collaboration b/w the National Science Foundation (US) and Department of Science and Technology (India)