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Straddling Bus

pathykv - 4-AUG-2010

This is a post by Mr. Sunil of Bangalore City Connect.

K.V.Pathy

 

Corporate Social Irresponsibility

murali772 - 28-JUL-2010

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been a hot topic globally. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has lectured companies on it. Some corporations have won acclaim and awards for CSR. Two of them were BP, the oil giant, and Goldman Sachs, the big investment bank. Every year, the World Economic Forum lists the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations". BP has made the list many times. So has Goldman Sachs, for its work on climate change and carbon trading.

Isn't it true of our situation too ?

E.R. Ramachandran - 27-JUL-2010

 

Isn't this true  of us too? Probably few thosands vs. One Billion++.....

Prajas Worldwide

Bheema.Upadhyaya - 24-JUL-2010

 

Hi Prajas,

Just today while updating something in Google Maps it flashed to me why not Prajas can share their location in Google Maps. This may help different people in different ways. Also its a show to others, how wide Praja is in terms of geograhical spread. All it will show how how Praja is integrated beyond geography.

A few suggestions on Opendata

shekhar_mittal - 29-JUN-2010

I had a few ideas and wanted to run it through you guys.

I think we should lay greater stress on partnerships. We will be able to make a greater impact and work on our strengths if we do that. When I say our strength what I essentially mean is our community and our analytical skills. While I realise what I am proposing is not really "OpenData" but it will be a very good start.

Some organisations I suggest we reach out to are -

1. Accountability Initiative - (check them out here: http://www.accountabilityindia.org/)
I had reached out to the lady who runs it, Yamini Aiyer, for some other reasons. If you look at their home page they have a lot of mention of opendata. During our conversation she told me that they already have MIS data of 12 government ministries ( I dont ask the exact details) but they have not made them available yet. Maybe we can get our hands on that data and then start discussions on them and make that data available on our site.

New email notifications from Praja

tech - 14-MAY-2010

 The Praja Tech team is happy to introduce new and improved email notifications system on Praja.

What

Praja users have the option of receiving email notifications when there is a comment on a post they are interested in. It can be a post authored by you, or a post you commented on. While the existing notification system was working, it was not perfect and we have now rolled out a new notification system.

Why

The old notification system was restricted in terms of its functionality and scalability. As Praja grows, we wanted to have the ability to send notifications to a larger number of users, send notifications through SMS etc. We will now also have ways to make the notifications better formatted and more useful. In addition, with the new system, it will also be possible to receive notifications for any activity within a project group, which is a critical functionality for project teams.

Future of Capitalism

murali772 - 7-MAY-2010

''The public trust in business and its leaders has never been lower. To restore trust, it is time for business leaders to embrace their own version of the doctor’s Hippocratic Oath, which shapes a common understanding of the role of business in society and the conduct expected of business leaders,'' wrote Nitin Nohria ( who has been named to take over as the Dean of the prestigious Harvard Business School) recently after critiquing the failure of leadership in the recent economic and corporate turmoil.

''Developing, adopting, and institutionalizing such an oath is not going to be easy. But there is no better or more important moment to try—because at stake is the very legitimacy of business leaders and the future of capitalism,'' he warned. His passion for the idea led to HBS students adopting a voluntary MBA oath.

For the full report in the TOI, click here

Meeting with Siva from Indian Statistical Institute

shekhar_mittal - 12-APR-2010

Venue: Cafe Coffee Day at Outer Ring Road near Bellandur Junction

Info about him can be found here http://www.isibang.ac.in/~athreya/

The agenda is to figure out the representation of the parameters/data that will be collected for the water index.

Check out JNNURM benchmarks on water

shekhar_mittal - 3-APR-2010

Check out JNNURM benchmarks on water and ensure we have not missed out anything in the list of parameters which we intend to track.

New "<X- FACTOR>" Bill Design Template

shekhar_mittal - 3-APR-2010

Jenny creates a new design for the BWSSB water connection bill.