A workshop on ‘Data Driven Decision Making’ was held on 7th January 2016 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Shri J.S. Deepak, former Secretary, DeitY inaugurated the workshop. Representatives from various Ministries/Department, Community, Academia and Researchers attended the workshop. ‘Data Driven Decision Making’ envisages collection and analysis of data to help decision-making for improved success rates. Governments can be more efficient with the readily available information and data to identify the pertaining issues and derive efficient solutions. As per the mandate of GoI Open Data initiative to provide proactive and open access to the data available with various Government departments, more than 26000 open datasets have been published on the OGD Platform, data.gov.in The workshop included various sectoral presentations and panel discussions. The sectoral presentation session-‘Data Driven Decision Making: Sectoral Perspective’ was chaired by Dr. K. Somasundar, Scientist- G, Ministry of Earth Sciences. Shri Suresh Chandra, Law Secretary, Dept. of Legal Affairs chaired the second panel discussion-‘Open Government Data Use License’ for Commercial and Non-Commercial use. The third discussion-‘Data Contribution by Community’; If Community should be allowed to contribute data on the OGD platform was chaired by Prof. S. N. Sarbadhikari, Project Director, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare. The discussions shed light on the need to use data in order to take informed decisions, need of the Open Government Data Use License and various aspects of open data contribution by the community. The workshop was conducted by the Open Government Data Division of NIC. The event details can be accessed at https://data.gov.in/event/data-driven-decision-making-cdo