India, Oct. 8 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

In the fire side chat with Shri G. Padmanabhan, former ED, RBI, Secretary, MoSPI, highlighted the ministry's focused efforts to harmonize administrative datasets across Ministries/Departments and the state governments to ensure that datasets become interoperable, machine-readable, and AI-ready. This process inter alia involves establishing standardized metadata structures, implementing rigorous quality assessments, and adherence to standard classification systems that enable seamless data comparison and interoperability across different agencies.

A key part of the discussion focused on finding the right balance between making data widely available as a public good and protecti...