@covid19indiaorg, the popular volunteer-driven data portal, ceased operations at the end of October 2021. Sridhar Ganapathy and I write about the need for adequate data dissemination from public authorities.
IDFC Institute made an effort to improve the availability of data for Mumbai and created a public-facing database for data covering testing, quarantine, containment measures, mortality trends, occupancy in hospitals, and vaccination. bit.ly/2ZGd6eU
The pandemic has shown that civil society cannot serve as a substitute for missing capacity within the state to communicate information quickly. The government needs to strengthen its primary role in the data pipeline to ensure proper and timely distribution of data.
Read the full blog post here.