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Presentation describing Open Data pilot

21 June 2010 - 1:05am — silkboard

Here is a presentation describing the Open Data pilot proposal. Credits to IDS, Shekhar, Rithesh and Sreeram. We have been speaking with a few government officials for their participation in the pilot and expect to 1-3 confirmations ASAP.

Personally, I find the proposal very exciting. There are parallels from UK/US to borrow from, but our government systems are not as digitized yet and not everyone is used to talking transparency using real data (citizens, media or governments), so the work involved should be unique and interesting.

The UID debate

6 June 2010 - 8:31am — vmenon

Dear all, attaching a couple of recent files on UID:

a) A "skeptical note" on UID by a Prof ramkumar( form tata institute of social sciences)
b) Minutes of meeting with NGOs /CSOs organised by UID this month.

In other civic forums , the UID debate has gone to the level of "stop UID" campiagns.

The anti UID lobby (currently in the civic space there seems to be more of them or at least more vocal) has a few broad areas of concern and pehaps rightly so

About Public Complaint Management Systems

6 May 2010 - 1:03pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

I just happened to create a single link for online complaint systems for Bangalore utilities. Just to make it at one place for me to start with. Even though it is not user friendly, it brings all complaint forms together.

Request prajas to use if found suitable. I may put some more effort if someone wants improvements.With my trial complaints with BBMP I learned following: (I have indicated this in earlier posts somewhere, but I repeat)

BBMP's Good work

21 April 2010 - 12:47pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

This is regarding one of the complaint I tried with BBMP. The idea was to both address my problem and to observe for the complaint management.

Here is the timeline :

19-Apr-2010 Monday @14:20:02: Filed Complaint via Spandana , BBMP's complaint portal.

19-Apr-2010 @14.20.20 Received Complaint Number and Acknowledgement via SMS

19-Apr-2010 @16.34 I enquired status via SMS

19-Apr-2010 @16.34 Received status via SMS stating complaint has been forwarded to local staff and the ticket was assigned to specific department (Health) and it said "Informed to S.H.I phine number ending with 83956"

20-Apr-2010 @ 10.14 received a call from actual contract worker (Number ending with 87356) for part-1 of complaint. He could not not locate address.

20-Apr-2010 @ 11.00 contract worker arrives

20-Apr-2010 @12.15 part 1 complete. As I was away, he got "completed" signature from neighboring lady and informed me.

Crowdsourcing Public Works

13 April 2010 - 12:19pm — nithinsujir

I came across this article on slashdot (a tech site). It's an excellent idea that is working for a lot of communities.

http://radar.oreilly.com/...

Is this something that can work in Bangalore? This a great way to report issues such that they are visible to everyone. The reports that are in the newspaper are easily forgotten. But this way it will remain until fixed.

We will also be able to guage the responsiveness of our local governments.

Discuss.

Thanks,

Nithin.

Online Store of GOK Unrepealed Acts

31 March 2010 - 12:56pm — Ravi_D

Found this online store, linking soft-copies of un-repealed acts of GOK. Yes, I did rub my eyes to make sure I wasn't dreaming.

Not sure where to post it, category or Tags to use. Admins, feel free to classify this post as you deem fit.

http://164.100.80.70/acts/ACTS%20E/dept.htm

For the record, got to this website thru' 'Acts & Rules' link on GOK-UDD Home Page.

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Online RTI anyone?

29 September 2009 - 9:37pm — nijavaada

Has anyone filed an online RTI app yet? Any particular uniqueness in its flow?

Any experiences? Does it work?! At least as good as the conventional RTI?

New feature - search Bengaluru related sarkaari websites

16 September 2009 - 9:12pm — tech

No big deal this, but we have put up a new feature wherein you can search through all well known Bengaluru related public websites. Its essentially a list of all sarkaari websites pointed out by the geeks of Praja.in put inside a "custom search" widget that will search only this universe of 25-30 websites.

Revolution in transparency in governance in US

19 August 2009 - 4:31pm — sanchitnis

As you may be aware, Obama started a priority Open Government Initiative with website at Data.gov.

E-gov and Karnataka's Municipal Reforms Cell

14 August 2009 - 12:59am — silkboard

Recently, I saw some job ads from this much ignored body called Municipal Reforms Cell (MRC in short). MRC was created back in 2005 to drive e-governance related reforms in Urban Local Bodies

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