Website Update Announcements

tech - 22-MAR-2010

Book to hold important technical announcements about Praja website itself. These announcements could be about new feature releases, retiring some features, or to announcements to gather user feedback on technical aspects of the website.

Users should leave comments on relevant posts in this book to interact with technical team. "Contact" feature is another tool available to users for providing technical feedback.

New navigation on Praja

tech - 23-MAR-2010

We at the tech team are happy to announce new and improved navigation features on Praja.in. These will be launched today. We hope that the changes make it easier for our users to find, read and create relevant content on the site. Read on to know more about the new navigation.

Changed front page

The homepage of Praja (http://praja.in) now has a simplified look when you are not logged in. It has a small slideshow to tell what Praja is about and leads to creating or finding discussions. (We are currently working on improving the looks of the graphics and buttons on this page). This design is done keeping in mind the new users to the Praja community who want to understand what Praja is about.

When the users login, the front page will automatically change to a more personal version. This page is the centre of all the action on Praja for all the users.

PrajaBytes

About projects on Praja

admin123 - 20-MAR-2010

Projects on Praja provide an opportunity for members to coordinate and perform on ground and online. Each project group has its own announcements, events calendar, petitions etc. In addition, each project group has tasks that can be assigned to individual members.  Project on Praja provide collaborative tools for members to communicate and manage actions.

For example, a simple project might involve obtaining information through RTIs from a government department. In such a project members can create events for deadlines, announcements to report progress, create tasks for collecting necessary data etc. A list of current projects on Praja can be found here. Currently, the projects on Praja have to be created by an administrator. This is to ensure that each project meets a basic standard of feasibility, focus and coherence. If you want to start a project, use the contact form (select I want to start a project)  to contact the administrators. Please clearly state the objective of the project and a tentative approach you wish to follow.

Tourism, Recreation and Karnataka

silkboard - 16-MAR-2010

Talking about 'quality of life', tourism and recreation is another area where we all expect certain standards of amenities and infrastructure. Further, tourism is known to be an excellent way of boosting internal economy. Across states of India, Karnataka today ranks 4th on domestic tourism, and 5th on international tourist arrivals.

Even though a lot of work has been done by sate government over last 5-6 years (roads to destinations, information, visit Karnataka campaign etc), things can always be better. A good ranking relative to other states of India should not mean much, the standards could be better when judged on absolute terms. Also, there does not seem to be much active citizen involvement, feedback and participation in development and planning of tourism infrastructure and campaigns.

Bengaluru’s first Bus Day gives filip to public transport

vaishvittal - 5-FEB-2010

The idea was proposed by a citizens’ community and became a reality through BMTC. An additional 10,000 Bangaloreans hopped on and off buses on ‘Bus Day’, according to one estimate.

Read more on Citizen Matters

http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1761-bus-day-a-moderate-success

New features at Praja!

tech - 5-FEB-2010

We at the Tech team are happy to announce another set of new features on Praja. Starting today, all registered users will have access to these new features.

1. The Stream Microblog with Twitter Integration

For those of us who are familiar with Twitter, we now have an analogous feature built within Praja. How is PrajaBytes to name it? Suggest better if you have one. The idea is for you to share your status or broadcast those pithy one liners to all Praja users (and especially those who follow you, see below).

• To start posting, just head to 'My account' and type in the 'Stream' box.
• What more, you can link one or more of your Twitter accounts to your praja accounts. If you link your Twitter account, a tweet will be posted to your Twitter account when you make a post on Praja.

To link your Twitter account:

• go to 'My account',
• choose 'edit' and click on 'Twitter Accounts' tab.
• Fill in your Twitter id and Twitter password. We need your Twitter password to make posts on your behalf.
• Rest assured that the passwords will be stored securely and are not accessible to any users, including the admins.

Using Praja to write a policy proposal

silkboard - 12-DEC-2009

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.

Praja in Sulekha.com

psaram42 - 1-DEC-2009

 praja.in is ranked number 198658 in the world according to the Alexa Traffic Rank.

Site Notice - tech work during December

tech - 27-NOV-2009

This isn't to scare anyone. Website will stay operational, with minimal impact, but just wanted to announce that we plan to work on some long pending tech issues (navigation, projects, gyan etc) during December.

DULT links to Praja

sanjayv - 17-NOV-2009

 I was reviewing the DULT website and realized that they have a link to Praja there. .  Praja is described as a Bangalore based internet driven community on urban issues.