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The United States and the Government of India, through the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue, announced in July 2011 that the
two countries would launch an open source software platform, with the goal of combining elements of each country's respective
open government sites that housed government data. Less than a year later, after the Administration made this a commitment
in the Plan, the United States and India launched Open Government Platform (OGPL) in March 2012. The OGPL enhances data transparency
and citizen engagement by making more government data, documents, tools, and processes publicly available through a freely
available, open-source platform. Making these data available in useful machine-readable formats allows innovators, developers,
media, and academia to develop new applications and insights that will give citizens more information to make better decisions,
as well asspur innovation and create economic opportunity. Countries around the world are taking notice of this successful
inter-governmental collaboration. The United States and India have established pilots in Ghana and Rwanda, and more than thirty
national and local governments around the world have expressed interest in the OGPL. The Data.gov team will continue to contribute
Data.gov as a platform going forward by contributing new open-source extensions to the platform, such as a harvesting tool
that will make it easy for other platforms to include Data.gov datasets in their own search results.
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Through the U.S.-India Open Government Dialogue, the two countries have partnered to release "Data.gov-in-a-Box," an open
source version of the United States' "Data.gov" data portal and India's "India.gov.in" document portal. It will be available
for implementation by countries globally, encouraging governments around the world to stand up open data sites that promote
transparency, improve citizen engagement, and engage application developers in continuously improving these efforts.
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