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NITI Aayog announces development of National Data and Analytics Platform for all govt data; had released RFPs in 2018, 2019

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(with research by Manas Pant) NITI Aayog is developing a National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP) to serve a "one-stop platform for all published government data", Rajiv Kumar, the vice chairman, announced. It will be built with the help of stakeholders and government bodies who work with big data. The first version of the NDAP is proposed to be released in 2021. MediaNama has reached out to NITI Aayog and members of the technical advisory group, which has been established to govern the platform, to learn how the NDAP will be different from the Open Government Data (OGD) Platform maintained by MeitY. It seems as if the two platforms have significant overlap in areas such as use of a search engine, sources of data, social media sharing, visualisations, etc. NDAP has been in the works for at least 3 years with nothing to show for it: NITI Aayog's Annual Report 2017-18 first mentioned NDAP as a proof of concept. In 2017, the then new department, Data Management & Analysis Vertical, was working on selecting a private party to develop the portal. Annual Report 2018-19 mentioned that DMAV would create a web portal that would "serve as a single point for accessing data across all Ministries of Government of India" along with visualisation and self-service analytics. In April 2018, the Economic Times had reported about it. No personally identifying information was expected to be collected. The think tank released its first Request for Proposal (RFP) looking for a private vendor on…

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