Softrack.net, the flagship product of Vortex, has features that allow monitoring of rural issues and grievances besides the flow of funds through schemes like MPLADS.
Assembly Speaker K.R. Suresh Reddy, who unveiled the new solution on Wednesday, mooted a proposal to introduce e-Petitions wherein the people in rural areas could directly send their grievances to the authorities as well as legislatures using Softrack.net.
"While provisions are in place to reach out to people through television channels, there is a need to introduce concept like e-Petitions wherein the grievances can directly by taken up in the Assembly," he said.
IT kiosks
Tarun Mallik, lead-rural computing of Microsoft, said the new software would give boost to Microsoft's Saksham (self-sustained), a rural initiative planned by MS, wherein it proposed to roll out 50,000 kiosks in different parts of the country over the next three years.
Microsoft was working with different State Governments for setting up kiosks and it would associate itself with regional players like Vortex in the endeavour.
The basic idea behind the initiative was to provide kiosks with business model offering Government-to-Citizen, Business-to-Business and Business-to-Citizen services to ensure sustainability of the initiative.
Vijayawada MP L. Rajagopal, who adopted the new software for monitoring the activities in his constituency, said he was looking out for such solution, as there was not even a single kiosk in the 550 villages in his constituency.
Hyderabad Software Exporters Association (HYSEA) president, U. Kedarnath Udiyavar, and others also spoke.
Quelle: The Hindu, 30.03.2006
