Introduction
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF containing information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. Such data is extremely useful not only for formulating sh...
Introduction
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF filled with information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. As can be imagined, such data is extremely useful not ...
About the Mumbai COVID-19 Data
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF filled with information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. As can be ...
Lack of transparency and alleged under-reporting of COVID-19 testing, cases, and deaths has drawn widespread criticism. The problem of determining the reliability of COVID-19 data in developing countries is even more acute as the pandemic has tested most public health systems. We have investigated t...
IDFC Institute has been nominated to be a part of a Working Group convened by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) for formulating a roadmap for cities to build a culture of data-driven governance. The first output of this working group - a strategy document and a Data Maturity Assessme...
In a recent article published in Ideas for India, Florian Blum and Rohini Pande discuss the political economy of data collection.
They state that while India is a notable exception among developing countries when it comes to collecting and releasing data about its poor, it does not measure ...
