Southern Asia

The Digital Colonial Documents Project (India) is intended to promote study of the rare seminal documents which were influential in the formation of the notions of nation, state and culture during the colonial period. The project makes available rare colonial documents as searchable internet documents.

Includes historical data as well as links to census materials.

SATP is the largest website on terrorism and low intensity warfare in South Asia, and creates the database and analytic context for research and analysis of all extremist movements in the region.

Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. It intends to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective.

A social science data repository that hosts National Sample Survey (NSS) and Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) datasets generated by the Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI).

Open Data Pakistan is brought to you by the National Center for Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Higher Education Commission (HEC). It is a collaborative effort to help provide open data to all kinds of users, such as researchers, policymakers, communities, and businesses alike.

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) is the prime official agency of Pakistan, responsible for collection, compilation and dissemination of reliable and timely statistical information to the policy makers, planners and researchers. It publishes a variety of reports, based on primary and secondary data, especially on economics and social aspects of the country.

A joint venture of Alif Ailaan and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, the PDP is an online tool for the sharing and dissemination of all data on education in Pakistan.

A civil society initiative to make Nepal’s data accessible online perpetually.

Nepal in Data (NiD) is an open data and statistics portal developed by Bikas Udhyami, a social innovation hub, to make development data and statistics on Nepal from 1950 to present available and accessible to wide audience.

National Data Profile system that provides a platform on which all data and information related to geography, natural resources, environment, demographics, social, economic, and governance etc., of the country are kept and updated to support greater data-led decision making and monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Provides one-stop access to the government’s publicly-available data.

The Database Search tool offers free access to the entire Strategic Asia database—75 indicators for 37 countries or territories in the Asia-Pacific, spanning the years 1990 to 2007.

The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) identifies, compiles, and analyzes micro-level conflict data and information on insurgency, civil war, and other sources of politically motivated violence worldwide.

UN statistics used in monitoring the world’s progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2014 (with additional annual updates planned for the future). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on domestic as well as transnational and international terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes more than 140,000 cases. For each GTD incident, information is available on the date and location of the incident, the weapons used and nature of the target, the number of casualties, and--when identifiable--the group or individual responsible.