Exhibit enables web site authors to create dynamic exhibits of their collections without resorting to complex database and server-side technologies. The collections can be searched and browsed using faceted browsing. Assorted views are provided including tiles, maps, etc.

SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools that empower users to access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets. Learn more about the SIMILE project.

Code for America was founded to help the brightest minds of the Web 2.0 generation transform city governments. Cities are under greater pressure than ever, struggling with budget cuts and outdated technology. What if, instead of cutting services or raising taxes, cities could leverage the power of the web to become more efficient, transparent, and participatory?

We believe there is a wealth of talent in the web industry eager to contribute to the rebuilding of America. Code for America gives them the means.

City governments, learn more.

RealVNC provides remote control software which lets you see and interact with desktop applications across any network.

TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer. TightVNC is:

free for both personal and commercial usage, with full source code available,
useful in administration, tech support, education, and for many other purposes,
cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, with Java client included,
compatible with standard VNC software, conforming to RFB protocol specifications.

UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free software that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen. The program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it, right from your current location. If you provide computer support, you can quickly access your customer's computers from anywhere in the world and resolve helpdesk issues remotely! With addons like SingleClick your customers don't even have to pre-install software or execute complex procedures to get remote helpdesk support.

ONLINE archaeology can yield surprising results. When John Kelly of Morningside Analytics, a market-research firm, recently pored over data from websites in Indonesia he discovered a “vast field of dead blogs”. Numbering several thousand, they had not been updated since May 2009. Like hastily abandoned cities, they mark the arrival of the Indonesian version of Facebook, the online social network.

Such swathes of digital desert are still rare in the blogosphere. And they should certainly not be taken as evidence that it has started to die. But signs are multiplying that the rate of growth of blogs has slowed in many parts of the world. In some countries growth has even stalled.

THE TELEVISION SERIES THAT FINDS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESCUING AND RESTORING OUR BUILT INHERITANCE
Heritage Heroes has received an overwhelmingly positive reaction since the series began on June 19.

Following the first two programmes on BBC World News, viewers from across the globe have submitted nearly 100 nominations for a planned second series.

One from the Caribbean urged the Heritage Heroes team to visit Malta and record the preservation of sites stretching back 3,000 years, while another from Pakistan suggested coverage of a tireless organiser dedicated to the renovation of colonial Karachi.

Series editor Robert Lamb said: "We have been taken back by the tremendous feedback we have received for Heritage Heroes.

“We are confident viewers will be no less inspired by the heroes we’ll be featuring in the next four programmes.”

Hey everyone, the intent of this wiki is to compile a central list of current initiatives (and eventually "best practices") involving social media and government. These can be internal or external, marketing, HR or IT, it doesn't matter. I even added a special "unofficial" category at the bottom of each page for all side initiatives. Let's see what we can come up with. Please keep your entries very high level and only fill out what you know. If you don't know the answer to one of the fields, leave it blank. If you see an error, please fix it! Should you have any questions or suggestions for improvement please email me here: mike(at)mikekujawski(dot)ca. Good luck! – Mike Kujawski

To help overcome some of the limitations with existing mapping tools Sunlight Lab is releasing ClearMaps, an ActionScript framework for interactive cartographic visualization. In addition to giving designers and developers more control over presentation the project aims to address some of the common technical challenges faced when building interactive, data driven maps for the web. ClearMaps is designed as a lightweight, flexible set of tools for building complex data visualizations. It is a framework not a plug-and-play component (though it could be a starting point for those wishing to make reusable tools).

NGO works with issues relating to dams, rivers and people

The Water Resources Department of the Government of Rajasthan, has made available, station-level, daily rainfall data from 1973-2008, for all districts of Rajasthan, on its website.

In order to make this data of better value to end-users, the India Water Portal has extracted and made this data available in a district-wise spreadsheet format, which you can download with a single click.

While extracting the data, we observed some discrepancies in the master data on the website. These notes can be viewed here.

in response to an RTI petition by the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (www.sandrp.in), the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has made rainfall data for the past few years available at a monthly level, for each district of the country on their website: IMD .

India Water Portal has imported all the data from 2004-2008 into a spreadsheet that you can download and save for future use.

Please note that IMD has updated their website with partial 2009 data too; this data will be incorporated into the IWP spreadsheet on this page at a later date.

Meteorological data is essential for water resource planning and research. In India, this data is difficult to obtain for the average citizen. In this application, entire datasets for various meteorological indicators from 1901 to 2002, for any part of India, is made available for users, in a simple format.

This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google's encrypted search option. We wanted a way to ensure that every search our browsers sent was encrypted. At the same time, we were also able to encrypt most or all of the browser's communications.

We are an information-graphics company, and specialise in developing graphical aids that explain complex ideas, workflows, and processes. Our clients use our graphics as marketing and educational aids, insert them in investor dossiers, use them at trade-shows and even adapt them as environmental wall graphics featuring facility maps and overviews.

Our expertise in information architecture design, business process visualisation and high quality illustration allows us to breakdown even the most complex of ideas into easy-to-understand charts, animation and interactive content.

If you can visualise your ROI on just time saved in the communication of complex ideas alone, then you realise just how powerful the service that we are offering really is. Why don't you commission a Motif8 information graphic today, and see for yourself?

Adarsh S Vansay installed solar cell plates and windmill at his house in JP Nagar two years ago and now plans to disconnect BESCOM power supply to his house.

here are all sorts of ways to access your email while on the road. You can set up a web-based account with Hotmail, Yahoo or any of a host of other online services. You can use your ISP’s or company’s web-based email log-in. You can use remote control software to access your desktop. You can tinker around with Gmail’s IMAP and forwarding settings to cobble something together.

This document covers how I have set up my Linux box to work as a Mail Server. The details will be specific to Arch Linux, but it will be be general enough for any *nix distribution if you have a knowledge of installing software packages, finding the location of configuration files, and starting/stoping services..

My goals in creating this mail system are to have all of my mail, from various email accounts, stored locally on my machine so I can access it anytime via SSH, the web, or imap. I wanted all of my mail delivered to my local user account and I wanted the spam to be sucked out and launched into space.

Ubuntu + Postfix + Courier IMAP + MySQL + Amavisd-new + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + SASL + TLS + SquirrelMail/Roundcube + Postgrey

Easy to follow howto on setting up a mail server with unlimited users and domains, with IMAP/Pop access, anti-spam, anti-virus, secure authentication, encrypted traffic, web mail interface and more.

Based on an Ubuntu distribution platform, but instructions are distro generic. Examples are run on Amazon AWS ec2, but only for demonstration purposes.

Peeing in Pune. Urinating in Udaipur. Leaking in Leh. Relieving in Rameshwaram.

This online course on Right to Information Act of 2005 is going to get at the principles and practices that are making communities everywhere more educated and empowered with rights. INFORMS is guiding and empowering communities to develop and evolve in ways that are more just, transparent, healthier and more morally responsible. It is our strong perception that INDIA can achieve its aim of bieng leading power only when it is free from corruption. The corruption can be curb only by educating people.

Synergy+ (synergy-plus) lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, without special hardware. All you need is a LAN connection. It's intended for users with multiple computers, where each system uses its own display. It's a little like having a 2nd or a 3rd desktop…

A consultation was organised by Arghyam Trust on 9th September 2009 at Bangalore, to share civil society experiences regarding sustainable sanitation with the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission was represented at the event by Dr. Mihir Shah. The focus of the consultation was largely on rural sanitation.
Bases on the discussions and inputs from the presentations of the participants, a general consensus was built, based on which specific recommendations were made to the Planning Commission.

heIndia Water Portal is a rich online resource base and virtual community on water. The Water Portal is an idea that was mooted by the National Knowledge Commission, which is interested in the creation of a stable of knowledge portals in critical areas. The Water Portal was launched officially in January 2007 at a function at the Prime Minister’s residence in New Delhi. It is a completely free and open platform, for the dissemination of information and knowledge and discussion and debate on water issues.

In a surprising choice, the May edition of Bicycling Magazine named Minneapolis America’s best city for biking. The city still trails Portland, Oregon in the percentage of commuters who bike to work (4.3 percent to 5.9 percent, respectively, according to the most recent American Community Survey), but Minneapolis has been gaining momentum

Terri Saul paints impossible childhood fantasies on canvas. Inspired by her Choctaw-Chickasaw roots as well as memories of childhood bike rides through the outer edges of Los Angeles, many of Terri’s paintings combine classic Tour de France imagery with the regalia of Native American dancers. And now, her daughter Lydia, too, is taking to the magic and independence of the bicycle

On the fourth Sunday of every month, cyclists take over the streets of Los Angeles as part of the "Black Kids on Bikes" (BKoB) ride. BKoB is part of a series of rides called the "Freedom Rides" aimed at getting more black Angelenos to enjoy the unique experience of a group cycle ride. BKoB aims at providing a safe, fun venue for kids to ride the streets, but despite it's name – the ride is open to riders of all races and skill levels

Pencil Jam is a sketch club that brings together people who draw. We meet once a week at locations around Bangalore to sketch. http://penciljam.ning.com/

The technology involves a server in Bangalore where callers can call on 080 6693 2500 and listen to news, record his or her own report and comment on existing stories. The stories then undergo moderation by Choudhary and other volunteers who approve the audio files to be hosted in public domain. The stories can be accessed on http://www.cgnet.in/ where audio files are uploaded.

Indian Government, at all levels, announces Welfare Schemes for a cross section of the society from time to time. These Schemes could be either Central, State specific or a Joint collaboration between the Centre and the States. In this section, we have attempted to provide you with easy and single point access to information about several welfare schemes of the Government and their various aspects including eligible beneficiaries, types of benefits, scheme details etc.

BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's video has shots of a grocery shop with labels announcing increase in prices. Appearing on Internet TV gives the politician the image of being tech savvy.

More importantly, candidates get to speak eye-to-eye with the voters. Those campaigning on the internet are trying to give a personal touch to their appeal. Yeddyurappa said he got the feeling he was a wizard while shooting for the campaign film.

Online/internet usage reports for india

EXPANDING CURATORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE CITY

This is a collection of email newsletters from a range of development organisations

Walkability is about urban design that allows people to use walking (perhaps combined with cycling) as an important, if not dominant, means of getting around. Thus, people should be able to walk to work as well as walk to urban amenities like schools, parks, restaurants and shops. Obviously, walking cannot be the only means of urban mobility, especially in a large city. However, urban design can be oriented to walking as a way of life, including linkages to other forms of transport, such as buses, trains and so on.

For our latest mission, we created separate walking lanes for tourists and New Yorkers on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk. Department of Transportation "employees" were on hand to enforce the new rules and ask pedestrians for their feedback on the initiative

interesting facts emerging from the election results on the basis of Voter turnout, Candidate distribution, Votes share and the margins of victory.

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We have given special care to achieve maximum accuracy of the output result.The timing are calculated with extreme accuacy with ±0.01 seconds, its unbelievable to employ such complex calculation on Java Enabled Mobile Phones and much much accurate than the Printed Copy of Panjika (Almanac) available in the Market. One sample is given below–

We use NASA's JPL DE406 ephemeris in a highly compressed format with some interpolations, Chapront Moon ELP-2000/82 for Lunar Ephemeris, The value used for the Moon's n-dot is -25.858 ["/cy2] (Last proved from Moon Laser Test) and ΔT from Morrison/Stephenson, using Espenak's (NASA) own polynomal description which are known as latest and most correct formula right now. Our Software Reports fully tallies with Bisuddhanta Siddhanta / Driksiddha Panjika and Rastriya Panchanga Published by Govt. of India.

ACME Labs is proud to make available a variety of software, all free, some trivial, some massive, all high-quality.

Some comparisons between various web servers. We look at features, sizes, and performance. The headers in the table are links to explanatory notes below. Bright green entries indicate something unusually good, and red entries are something bad, sometimes with a link to a note explaining why.

Don't get too excited over the performance figures. Most of these servers have enough oomph to keep a T1 saturated, running on a lowly 100MHz Pentium or maybe even a 486. Very very few web applications need more power than that. So, the fact that Apache is not that fast shouldn't be of concern to most people.

micro_httpd is a very small Unix-based HTTP server. It runs from inetd, which means its performance is poor. But for low-traffic sites, it's quite adequate. It implements all the basic features of an HTTP server, including:

* Security against ".." filename snooping.
* The common MIME types.
* Trailing-slash redirection.
* index.html
* Directory listings.

All in about 200 lines of code.