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Importance of Open Data and Data Sharing Along with its Implication for Urban Studies
In the upcoming episode Vikas Kanungo, Senior Digital Development Consultant, The World Bank is in conversation with Luis E. Bermudez, CEO, GeoSolutions. They talk about problems accessing urban data, National Data Sharing Policy, data trends, use of data integration and sharing in the US, ISO trends and open-data standards and policy.
Vikas Kanungo is a Smart City and m-Governance expert, trainer and advisor with more than 25 years of experience in Digital Platforms and ICT solutions strategy. During his 25 years of career in the ICT industry, he has worked at key consulting and advisory positions with the Government of India, The World Bank, UNDP, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), European Union agencies. He has also worked at a host of corporate agencies in India, Asia and the Middle East.
He is currently engaged in a global Knowledge initiative on Green Growth-Oriented Smart Cities & Shared Services Digital Platforms for Smart Cities as a Senior Specialist with the World Bank. He is the Chairman of the Society for Promotion of e-Governance (SPeG), India and Founder Director of mgovworld.org – A global observatory on mobile governance.
He has been working as a Senior e-Governance Consultant with The World Bank since 2008. Vikas has mentored several start-ups in m-Governance, Smart Cities solutions and provides advisory services to several government agencies and corporates on next-generation digital technologies for the public services delivery. Vikas has also worked as an advisor with the Government of India for the formulation of mobile governance policy. He has been involved in a global study of Citizen engagement of grievance redress systems using next-generation technologies, advisory services for conceptualizing Smart City frameworks as a Senior Consultant with The World Bank.
Vikas has authored more than a dozen papers on e-Governance/Smart cities and is co-author of the book “Digital Divides: New Challenges and Opportunities of e-Inclusion” published by CRC Press in 2015. His report titled “India – Journey from Knowledge Economy to Inclusive Information Society” was released by the Indian government during WSIS Summit in Geneva as an action taken report by India on MDGs realization.
He has been regularly giving presentations around the world and has spoken at institutions ranging from the UNDP and the World Bank to government-supported conferences in India, Oman, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Moldova, among many others. Vikas has been a guest faculty for e-Governance courses in the Indian Institute of Public Administration, the National Academy of Direct Taxes and the Mudra Institute of Communication.
Dr. Luis Bermúdez is the CEO of GeoSolutions USA, one of the world’s leaders in supporting commercial, open-source geospatial software. Before joining GeoSolutions, Dr. Bermudez worked for 10 years at the Open Geospatial Consortium, advancing open standards used worldwide. First, as the Director of the Compliance Program and then as Executive Director of the Innovation Program. Previously he worked at a university consortium SURA in the architecture and implementation of a hurricane forecasting system in a distributed environment, using open standards. He also worked at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute developing real-time information systems from marine sensors. He earned his PhD in environmental Informatics at Drexel University in 2004.
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By CAG and CODATA and Tonkin & TaylorIn the upcoming episode Vikas Kanungo, Senior Digital Development Consultant, The World Bank is in conversation with Luis E. Bermudez, CEO, GeoSolutions. They talk about problems accessing urban data, National Data Sharing Policy, data trends, use of data integration and sharing in the US, ISO trends and open-data standards and policy.
Vikas Kanungo is a Smart City and m-Governance expert, trainer and advisor with more than 25 years of experience in Digital Platforms and ICT solutions strategy. During his 25 years of career in the ICT industry, he has worked at key consulting and advisory positions with the Government of India, The World Bank, UNDP, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), European Union agencies. He has also worked at a host of corporate agencies in India, Asia and the Middle East.
He is currently engaged in a global Knowledge initiative on Green Growth-Oriented Smart Cities & Shared Services Digital Platforms for Smart Cities as a Senior Specialist with the World Bank. He is the Chairman of the Society for Promotion of e-Governance (SPeG), India and Founder Director of mgovworld.org – A global observatory on mobile governance.
He has been working as a Senior e-Governance Consultant with The World Bank since 2008. Vikas has mentored several start-ups in m-Governance, Smart Cities solutions and provides advisory services to several government agencies and corporates on next-generation digital technologies for the public services delivery. Vikas has also worked as an advisor with the Government of India for the formulation of mobile governance policy. He has been involved in a global study of Citizen engagement of grievance redress systems using next-generation technologies, advisory services for conceptualizing Smart City frameworks as a Senior Consultant with The World Bank.
Vikas has authored more than a dozen papers on e-Governance/Smart cities and is co-author of the book “Digital Divides: New Challenges and Opportunities of e-Inclusion” published by CRC Press in 2015. His report titled “India – Journey from Knowledge Economy to Inclusive Information Society” was released by the Indian government during WSIS Summit in Geneva as an action taken report by India on MDGs realization.
He has been regularly giving presentations around the world and has spoken at institutions ranging from the UNDP and the World Bank to government-supported conferences in India, Oman, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Moldova, among many others. Vikas has been a guest faculty for e-Governance courses in the Indian Institute of Public Administration, the National Academy of Direct Taxes and the Mudra Institute of Communication.
Dr. Luis Bermúdez is the CEO of GeoSolutions USA, one of the world’s leaders in supporting commercial, open-source geospatial software. Before joining GeoSolutions, Dr. Bermudez worked for 10 years at the Open Geospatial Consortium, advancing open standards used worldwide. First, as the Director of the Compliance Program and then as Executive Director of the Innovation Program. Previously he worked at a university consortium SURA in the architecture and implementation of a hurricane forecasting system in a distributed environment, using open standards. He also worked at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute developing real-time information systems from marine sensors. He earned his PhD in environmental Informatics at Drexel University in 2004.