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Now a one-stop shop for environment information

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NEW DELHI: A portal on environment and development designed and built by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), with support from the National Knowledge Commission, was launched here on Monday.

A one-stop shop for all information and resources, the India Environmental Portal will enable the flow of easy-to-use information from sources across the country and make it available in the public domain.

“Our politics is to build open, networked and informed societies, who can use knowledge to make change. This is why we have also built the India Environment Portal on an open-source platform and made proprietary information held by us available and open” said CSE Director Sunita Narain.

“This is a unique effort as it will provide collaboration between government and civil society. It is our effort to put government information in the public domain and to build dynamic and networked knowledge-based societies” Sam Pitroda, Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission, said after launching the portal.

The portal, which can be accessed at www.cseindia.org, will source government documents and make them available for public scrutiny. It is designed for users of environmental information – from the media to students. To start with, more than 3,00,000 articles and documents are available to researchers – from different sources, all categorised by author and tagged according to subjects and locations.

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