{"id":1809,"date":"2025-01-04T18:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T10:42:50","slug":"open-data-kit-odk-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/open-data-kit-odk-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Data Kit (ODK) Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Open Data Kit (ODK) Platform:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>digital platform<\/strong> which allows the CAG to collect and manage data securely.<\/li>\n<li>It is used for designing, collecting, and managing data to enhance transparency in public spending and accountability in government schemes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is integrated with CAG&#8217;s own <strong>operating system called OIOS.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an end-to-end<strong> encrypted<\/strong> online portal.<\/li>\n<li>It is used to collect information for identifying problem areas warranting additional review.<\/li>\n<li>It also helps CAG in launching surveys in <strong>multiple languages<\/strong> at the same time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Beneficiary Survey is one of the sources for information for audit planning as well as for collection of audit evidence.<\/li>\n<li>ODK toolkit was deployed to ascertain patient satisfaction while gathering evidence in auditing the performance of the AIIMS at Mangalagiri in Guntur district and the AIIMS at Bibinagar in Hyderabad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Encryption?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the process of protecting information or data by using mathematical models to scramble it in such a way that only the parties who have the key to unscramble it can access it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/are-govt-schemes-really-working-cag-now-has-a-new-tool-to-track-and-find-out\/articleshow\/116875252.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) is using Open Data Kit (ODK) platform, a new digital tool to improve transparency and accountability in public spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,22,104,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-1809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-open-data-kit-odk-platform","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-article","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}