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RTI Club - 2010

30 April 2010 - 6:25pm — silkboard
Project number:3375
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Opened on:Friday, 30 April 2010 - 6:25pm
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Group to provide RTI support to projects and campaigns hosted on Praja.in

This is an attempt to "assembly line" the RTI filing process (expressed back here). Idea is to do a few things

  1. Provide support to projects and campaigns hosted on Praja in a cause-agnostic way. Projects can create an "RTI request", and the club will help file them.
  2. Provide a relatively easy avenue to those who want to "do things" beyond discussions, but don't have easy outlets for their enthusiasm. An "assembly-lined" RTI filing process will create a few easily-doable roles, some of them may be 100% online as well
  3. File RTIs as a group, which cold be helpful when individuals may be "afraid" to file the applications in individual capacity

The Club will put some measures in place to prevent misuse of the convenience on offer here. Rules will be built as we go, though be sure that RTI requests from projects & campaigns hosted on Praja will be preferred over individual requests without enough context.

How about an RTI Club on Praja?

19 April 2010 - 12:28am — silkboard
Praja related

Wanted to float a suggestion, just to check on feasibility and response from other users on this e-community. Many discussions, as well as projects here get into a situation where we need official records or status from local government or public agencies. In few cases, we get such information by just asking for it (email to BMTC, BMRCL etc). But in many cases, we end up with needs for RTI (Right to Information) applications. Almost every project here on Praja too needs support in terms of RTI filings.

How about we create an RTI Club here on Praja? Members of this club would basically "assembly line" the RTI filing process in domain neutral way. Let me list the mechanics:

Survey on your voter registration experience

Dear Friends, based on our own observations, and with inputs and support from Jaagte Raho and SmartVote, here is a survey on your experience with voter registration process in Bangalore. The idea is to help the State Election Commission to improve the accuracy of voter lists. You cooperation is requested. Please encourage your community and friends to take this survey in large numbers. Summarized results will be shared with the State Election Commission.

You could go by the entries in the SEC listing, which has been extracted and made readily accessible here  (http://smartvote.in/voter...) by SmartVote. The EPIC entries, which may have been corrected at the time of their issue (by the private contractors), but that is not official.

[Tech Note: Survey open to all users, registered on Praja.in or not. Be assured that profile details of registered users (email, address) will NOT be shared with anyone.]

Monthly PRAJA Meeting - Online

15 January 2010 - 6:12pm — kbsyed61
30 Jan 2010
30 Jan 2010
Asia/Calcutta
Praja related

It has been a while we had a Praja meeting. Let us start the new year with more enthusiasm than previous years.

It will be a ONLINE Meeting using SKYPE. Focus of the meeting would be on the upcoming event on Feb 4th 'Bus Day'.

Using Praja to write a policy proposal

12 December 2009 - 11:54am — silkboard
Praja related

Have been missing in action for a week now, but writing this note to draw attention to this proposal (Join hands to write ...) for using Praja.in website as a collaboration tool to develop a transportation policy proposal for Bengaluru.

Join hands to write a Transport Policy Proposal for Bengaluru

1 December 2009 - 11:16pm — admin
Praja related

Post Mobilicity, we, as a community, have this opening to create a Transport Policy proposal for Bengaluru using not just that draft we saw last week, but several such proposals that may exist today. What if we join hands to create a concrete document (a type of "crowdsourcing"), and try this as our first focused proposal creation exercise.

Citizens question transport department’s policy draft

24 November 2009 - 3:33pm — vaishvittal
Praja related

At a recent meet on sustainable transport, Bangaloreans and officials discussed the state transport department’s draft policy, a document not many are aware of.

Read more on Citizen Matters

First annual Praja-Bangalore meeting!

5 November 2009 - 12:52pm — silkboard
21 Nov 2009 09:30
21 Nov 2009 16:45
Asia/Calcutta
Praja related

Since most active and regular Praja members who are based in Bangalore will be present at Mobilicity. Treat the event as the first annual Praja members meet at Bangalore. All local members should try and make it. Attend Mobilicity sessions, ask constructuve questions, and meet more members and like minded people.

Monthly praja meeting- Novermber 2009

3 November 2009 - 8:20am — vinod_shankar
Praja related

Dear Friends,

Its time for the  monthly praja meeting, please give suggestions for the venue for the praja meeting and also the agenda.  The last meeting was held at byappnahalli metro terminal site, with just 4 people attending the meet.

Date: Saturday,November 7th, 09

Time: Around 8:30am

Mobilicity - Review meeting with CISTUP

20 October 2009 - 12:00am — silkboard
Praja related
21 Oct 2009 18:00
Asia/Calcutta

Next meeting with CISTUP, at IISc. Open only to organizing members/volunteers of Mobilicity. Leaving note on website to share progress with Praja members as we get closer to the d-day.

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