GeoHackers are a group of GIS experts from India. They use Open Mapping Technologies like OpenStreetMaps, OpenLayers etc. for innovative and practical applications (or maps just for fun!).

They spread mapping skills with mapping parties and come up with training and consultancy for the same.

GeoHackers are a group of GIS experts from India. They use Open Mapping Technologies like OpenStreetMaps, OpenLayers etc. for innovative and practical applications (or maps just for fun!).

They spread mapping skills with mapping parties and come up with training and consultancy for the same.

mog, fast-vanishing forest space, protest marches, human rights abuses and myriad such events and activities need constant attention and backing. Highlighting such issues is no more a herculean task for advocacy groups. Information, communication and digital technologies have smoothened out processes and systems and contain techniques and tools which, if appropriately used, can easily bring about phenomenal change.

Geographical maps are the latest transformation tools that the technological revolution has enabled.

The Darfur project (http://www.ushmm.org/maps/) undertaken by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) where mapping was used to expose a humanitarian crisis in Sudan is a prime example. Combining mapping and rich content, witness testimonies, satellite imagery, data and other information placed on a Google Earth map, the USHMM raised awareness of the reality of incidents in the Sudanese region.

The [10 tactics] film in fact has directed me toward the solutions I have been looking for to support our work on democratic participation. The Kubutana and Sodnet examples will now help me sensitise and inspire my colleagues. I hope we be able to implement something similar for our work in Uganda."

We support various communication technologies such as Skype, SIP, H.323 and GoogleTalk making it easy to interface with other open source PBX systems such as sipXecs, Call Weaver, Bayonne, YATE or Asterisk.

FreeSWITCH supports many advanced SIP features such as presence/BLF/SLA as well as TCP TLS and sRTP. It also can be used as a transparent proxy with and without media in the path to act as a SBC (session border controller) and proxy T.38 and other end to end protocols.

FreeSWITCH supports both wide and narrow band codecs making it an ideal solution to bridge legacy devices to the future. The voice channels and the conference bridge module all can operate at 8, 12, 16, 24, 32 or 48 kilohertz a

Freedom Fone offers the possibility to extend the reach of information to citizens and groups presently excluded from the information loop because of lack of access to resources such as computers and the internet. It takes advantage of the cell phone's role as an "access equaliser" to provide communities with the opportunity to create, listen to and act on information of immediate relevance to them.

Freedom Fone intends to deliver an easy to use telephony platform that YOU can use to build and manage dynamic information on demand services to suit your audience’s needs. Useful features in version 1 will include the ability to: create and modify voice menus; run a sms poll; make a callback in response to missed calls or sms requests; accept, tag and categorise voice messages.

The State Election Commission has announced the BBMP council elections schedule, with March 28th 2010 as the day of elections. The election code of conduct has been in force since March 7th and will go on till April 6th.

The last date for filing nominations is March 15th while the nominations will be scrutinised on March 17th. The last date for withdrawing nomination papers is March 19th. After polling takes place on March 28th between 7 am and 5 pm, counting will be done a week later on April 5th. If necessary, repolling will take place on April 4th.

Give pincode to get post office details

Search your name in the voters list. All the names are on the voters list, go check it.

Get you ac, pc, ward, polling booth information on the map. Just mark your place right clicking and you will get the info. Its easy and usable.

Consequent to formation of Bruhat Bangalore Mahangara Palike (BBMP), process of Delimitation of Wards has been taken up and the draft delimitation proposal for 198 wards is published

With a view to provide the citizen of Bruhat Bangalore with comprehensive information about the composition of BBMP and the delimited wards along with details of localities forming a particular ward, an integrated GIS database has been developed

In the area of Information Technology, STQC provides assurance services through its six IT Centres for Software Quality testing, Information Security and IT Service Management by conducting testing, training, audit and certifications. STQC is responsible for maintaining eGov standards. Based on this concept a Conformity Assessment Framework (CAF) for e-Governance project has also been developed and is in operation. Two IT test laboratories, at Bangalore and Kolkatta, have received accreditation from American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) being the first outside the USA

he Government of India has launched the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) with the intent to support the growth of e-governance within the country. The Plan envisages creation of right environments to implement G2G,G2B,G2E and G2C services.

To ensure Interoperability among e-Governance applications, Government of India has setup an Institutional mechanism for formulation of Standards through collaborative efforts of stakeholders like Department of Information Technology(DIT), National Informatics Centre (NIC), Standardization Testing and Quality Certification( STQC), other Government departments, Academia, Technology Experts, Domain Experts, Industry, BIS, NGOs etc. In this process there is a provision of formal Public review also.

Metadata and Data standards for person Identification and Land region codification