Tale of CWG website - 112 Crore spent?

kbsyed61 - 10-OCT-2010

We all boast of being keepers and makers of world's back office solutions and IT systems. The list includes designing the Boeing's dream-liner to Bosch's washer-dryer. Recently concluded Soccer world cup's IT systems were supposed to have been supported by Mahindra Satyam team. Compare to this when we step down on our local website's, are left with disappointments and nothing else.

Open Data progress - met with dept. of Sericulture

silkboard - 15-JUL-2010

So after 2 months of pause - we have been struggling to work meeting dates with some govt depts we have spoken with - we kicked this off with a meeting with Manivanan, who now heads dept of Sericulture.

Using IT methods to control traffic and enforcement of traffic rules

irfanulla - 25-JUN-2010

Hi All,

may be its time we used the IT infrastructure and the already available infrastructure to get people learn some traffic rules

My opinion would be to outsource technology, infrastructure and marshaling to high end cameras and monitoring systems to take care of traffic rule violations and imposing of fines and make the process devoid of traffic police interference and in the process take the big burden off the heads of the Traffic police and let them stick to their more important job of managing the traffic  -

using technology would let the TP (traffic police) make a note of repeated offenders and would help in auto collection of fines through third party system,

The above may be well known to all- but the reason to mention it out here is that - it needs to be at least tried out in a pilot way to find its effectivity -

The UID debate

vmenon - 6-JUN-2010

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

IISc Alumina Association (IIScAA) Science Forum – Popular Lecture Series

psaram42 - 3-APR-2010

To enhance the scientific temperament amongst the community at large and inspire young aspirants in particular, IIScAA Science Forum – Popular Lecture Series was launched today at the Faculty Hall at IISc campus. It was hoped to promote the quality of the dialogue on the new roles and challenges of scientific knowledge within today’s global society. 

IIScAA Science Forum would be disseminating the emerging frontiers of Science & Technology globally to the society, along with history & philosophy, discoveries, inventions, revolutions, limitations, use & abuse of Science & Technology and the impact of Science & Technology on society. The IIScAA Science Forum will also share with the society the contribution of IISc in Science & Technology by arranging Lectures by eminent scientists of repute from IISc & outside. 

Solution Traffic Problem

bharatm - 8-DEC-2009

 Summary: Recently I was thinking of possible reasons and solutions of the problem of traffic. I did a small survey and collected opinion from the people from various ages. I also observed working of Volvo service in bangalore.

Technology as good as implementation

idontspam - 11-AUG-2009

So far, nearly 38,000 smart cards have been issued to the public from all the ten Road Transport Offices (RTOs) in Bangalore .... the card did not have details like hypothecation ...

Website updates and restructure

tech - 5-JUL-2009

First of all, thanks all for being patient as we worked through a major website update during last week.

Building incapability, encouraging inneficiency

idontspam - 24-JUN-2009

The government’s science-technology schemes don’t work towards outcomes, they are more concerned about disbursement of funds

Online Voting System - An outline

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 4-MAY-2009

Please consider the following innovative sketchy module for adoption so that a debated final product props up from Prajegalu: 

ONLINE VOTING/Electoral Rolls IT enabled/Issue of National Security-cum-multipurpose ID Card instead of EPIC :