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Data in Government offices - How safe are they? Vasanth - 24-SEP-2013
Today morning I had suprise visitors to my home from Bescom. Two men in a scooter, one person ready to remove the electric fuse at home. They came and suddenly asked for the receipt of last month's electricity bill. I had kept it somewhere and had to search all over home. |
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Agenda for our new Chief Minister: What needs to be done for our cities srkulhalli - 23-MAY-2013
<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Now that we have a new goverement, let us make a vision document and send it to our CM. Some things about this draft document - |
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Someone (BPAC?), please fund a CIO for Bangalore silkboard - 19-MAY-2013
"Can't fix it if you can't measure it". That is what a lot of people say. There is a lot that gets measured by BBMP/BMTC/BWSSB/BESCOM/BDA etc. But we just don't get to see. Want GIS data used for creating masterplan to be public? Want to know the city's water consumption, and inflow from each source every day? |
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Want solutions to civic issues? No dearth of routes to finding them, now. murali772 - 20-JUL-2012
On a single day, you have announcements of the commencements of two more "grievance redressal platforms" - one by 'Janaagraha', called "ichangemycity.com" (read the New Indian Express report on it here), and BMTF (Banga |
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Ravi_D - 15-JUN-2012
Technology can be real useful, if there is a willingness to make good use of it! Look at this new SmartPhone App used by the City of Boston. Quoting from the report: |
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Smart Cities - Can Bangalore become one? idontspam - 3-NOV-2011
How can Bangalore leverage technology to outsmart corrupt & outdated practices? |
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Is there citizens role in local governance? idontspam - 17-JUL-2011
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The “Enough of Corruption” SAAKU Rally psaram42 - 11-DEC-2010
Dr. Balasubramnyam of sustainable economy, Arvind kejriwal an activist from Delhi and JP Narayan founder of the loksatta party, were on the dais at the hockey grounds, after the end of the protest march from the Vittal Mallya and Kasturba road junction. The gathering was impressive with all the media people including NDTV and others. |
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Praja.in Best Social Media Initiative 2010 idontspam - 28-OCT-2010
Praja.in wins the Best Social Media Initiative of the year award by eGov Magazine. The award was received by Pranav Jha of Praja.in at a function organized at the Claridges Hotel, New Delhi on 28th October 2010. A very good encouragement to all those who want to use technology to bring about change for the better |
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Centralized data in RTO - Filing RTI with Transport Commissioner kbsyed61 - 12-OCT-2010
I am getting ready to file some RTI's with transport department to find out the state of centralization motor vehicle data and use of same by RTOs. The Transport department's website (http://rto.kar.nic.in/) mentions about computerization of records. |