ACCESS TO INFORMATION
Civic hackers seek to find their feet in India…..Priyanka Pulla
In 2006, when Sushant Sinha, who holds a doctorate in Internet security from the University of Michigan, tried to use the Indian government’s judicial rulings website, Judis.nic.in, he found it difficult to get the data he was looking for.
Judis.nic.in didn’t have a good text search or ability to sort results by relevance, Sinha said.
The lack of these two critical functions rendered the wealth of data on the site largely unusable.