Posts : Issues

Crowdsourcing Public Works

nithinsujir - 13-APR-2010

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/2010/04/crowdsourcing-the-dpw.html

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.

 

Praja, Elections, Politics and Issues!

kbsyed61 - 2-MAY-2009

Prajagale,

First interview - issue or no-issues

jennypinto - 25-MAR-2009

[Comment promoted to a forum topic on behalf of Jenny]

This might be interesting to all of you.... that last night we attempted to do our first candidate interview (for praja and smartvote.in). the questionnaire includes the top issues  on our praja poll !

Survey results - cleanliness, pollution top local issues!?

admin123 - 22-MAR-2009

After about 3000 responses, here is how the results look like. The results are a function of how the poll was structured, and remember, this reflects the sentiments of urban, online populace of the city. Regardless, instead of analyzing this in various ways ourselves, why don't we leave it to readers and members to make sense of thes numbers. In case you are not very good with numbers, we have highlighted the top 3-4 items in each category :)

Top issues so far from the election survey

admin123 - 4-MAR-2009

Here is how the top issues look right now (March 4) in the ongoing issue survey. If you haven't fill the survey out yet, please do so ASAP. We'll start our candidate interviews very shortly, so its important to build an "as popular" top issue list as possible.

Aam Crorepati

Ravi_D - 2-JUL-2009

Some interesting observations from P Sainath's piece The Age of aam crorepati on India Together:

Karnataka Urban Water Policy and the citizens needs

Public Agenda - 13-JUN-2009

JNNURM, WB, ADB, Mysore and Bangalore Water Supply:

Making IAS officers accountable ??!

Public Agenda - 3-JUN-2009

The GoK needs to be under pressure and all of us need to be watchdogs. Is there any quality of life for the public?

the answer is no.

But why is this happening ?

Because we cannot ensure ACCOUNTABILITY  of the IAS officers

ADR Report on Karnataka MPs 2009

shekhar_mittal - 17-MAY-2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: May 16, 2009

BBMP elections 2009 and Bureaucratic Accountability

Public Agenda - 3-MAY-2009

The report linked below 

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/May32009/city20090503133950.asp