The Centre for Public Policy Research(CPPR) will soon launch a website which will provide information gathered by way of the Right To Information (RTI) Act. The website will provide user-friendly access to the information on a digital platform that can be reproduced in any other form for future analysis.The new interactive website – www.digitalrtimission.com – will be a digital platform similar to Wikipedia, where anyone can submit the information they gathered as reply to the application they filed under the RTI Act.

With the enactment of the RTI Act in 2005, seeking information has become the right of every Indian citizen. Unfortunately, there has not been any consolidated effort to recognise, acknowledge and dedicate a space for the information generated through the RTI Act. The new website is part of the `Digitalisation of RTI’ project, which involves collection of information from all the points where applications are filed under the RTI Act and consolidation of the information.

The information gathered will be regularly updated on the website. Using this platform, one can generate various indices of transparency, evaluation of policy implementation, cost and the expenditure incurred under various government programmes. This analysis can further be utilised to compare the performance of the programmes.

The project also aims at evaluating the various government programmes, with regard to their performance on the basis of the defined criteria and operating at different levels of governance – at the village, district, state and national levels. The copies of the RTI applications and their responses will be obtained from the Public Information Offices and the State Information Commission.