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Challenges facing Digital-isation of India

Infosys, country's second largest software services firm, has not made any profit on government projects because of red-tapism and other issues, its co-founder N R Narayana Murthy said today.

Crowd-sourcing info by Police Commissioner thro twitter

Tweets by Shri M N Reddi, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru City - @CPBlr (twitter handle)
  • Request all to report poorly lit stretches of roads in Bengaluru to @dcpadmnbcp (twitter handle) n we'll verify them n take up with BBMP for remedial action. 
  • If we can get the list of poorly lit roa

Can genuine Public Consultation happen through government web-sites?

Within a week, every citizen of Bengaluru can voice his or her opinion on how the city's administration should be restructured, through an interactive web-site, as part of an unprecedented series of public consultations on the issue. 
 
Citizens can log on and state their opinions on whether the city should be bifurc

Data in Government offices - How safe are they?

Today morning I had suprise visitors to my home from Bescom. Two men in a scooter, one person ready to remove the electric fuse at home. They came and suddenly asked for the receipt of last month's electricity bill. I had kept it somewhere and had to search all over home.

Now you can file RTI online including paymemt of Fees for Central Government/Departments!

One more step towards greater accountability and transparency.

Source - Times Of India

Agenda for our new Chief Minister: What needs to be done for our cities

Governance

Now that we have a new goverement, let us make a vision document and send it to our CM.

Some things about this draft document -

Someone (BPAC?), please fund a CIO for Bangalore

Governance

"Can't fix it if you can't measure it". That is what a lot of people say. There is a lot that gets measured by BBMP/BMTC/BWSSB/BESCOM/BDA etc. But we just don't get to see. Want GIS data used for creating masterplan to be public? Want to know the city's water consumption, and inflow from each source every day?

Like IRCTC , Passport Seva website also seem to be giving appointments to Agents.

Like IRCTC , Passport Seva website also seem to be giving appointments to Agents.

Citizen Services : Passports, online system and agents!

On paper, there are no agents or touts who facilitate appointments in the passport-issuing process.

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