When British Prime Minister David Cameron led a delegation to India, he included some of the UK’s top data experts. Blogger David McCandless was among them and recapped the visit in the Guardian. At a “hackday” sponsored by Google India, he acknowledged a “slight colonial attitude:”
I was expecting to be helping the collected Indian IT professionals and activists improve their skills and give them fresh ideas on how to bootstrap their democracy.However, our Indian counterparts very quickly astonished us with brilliant and powerful data projects and grass roots hacks using simple tools and technologies to solve everyday civic issues.
He reports on one information designer’s efforts to redesign the bus map for Chennai, using crowdsourcing to gather data on the routes. Link to full story in the Guardian.
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