Written by navin on January 4th, 2009 in Featured, Pune City 8 Comments
Tags: community, government, pmc, Pune City, web
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In Barcamp Pune 5, I gave a presentation on why you should be on twitter. I also asked Ranjit Gadgil and Anupam Saraph to give a presentation on the Pune Governance wiki that they have been nurturing for the last 6 months. As a result of these presentations, various twitter related initiatives are [...]
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Written by navin on November 17th, 2008 in Pune City No Comments
Tags: bsnl, networks, Pune City, services
The Indian Express reports that Pune has yet again been chosen as a city to introduce a new hi-tech service: Managed Network Services from BSNL. The basic idea is that instead of simply providing broadband and other types of network access, BSNL will take over the entire job of handling the network of small companies. [...]
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Written by navin on November 10th, 2008 in Featured, Pune City No Comments
Tags: bloggers, community, Pune City
This is a round-up of some recent intersting blog posts written by Pune’s techies. These blogs don’t necessarily fall within the narrow charter of PuneTech, but introducing PuneTech readers to these blogs and bloggers does.
At the top of everyone’s mind is of course the financial meltdown. Arun Prabhudesai (who is CEO of hover.in) details the [...]
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Written by navin on October 27th, 2008 in Pune City No Comments
Tags: domestic market, pune, web, Websites
Here’s a Diwali themed post for you as PuneTech takes off for a few days.
Legendary Marathi author Pu.La. Deshpande once said (and I am paraphrasing here) that there is no need to travel the world, because you can buy anything that you would really want at Pune’s Laxmi Road. Unfortunately however, thanks to the globalization [...]
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Written by navin on August 22nd, 2008 in News, Pune City No Comments
Tags: government, pmc, pune
The Indian Express reports that Pune is leading the nation in the use of IT for governance. Recently, it had set up kiosks where citizens can pay property taxes, and get copies of birth and death certificates. This initiative has received an award from the state government, and Vansh Infotech, the company implementing the kiosks [...]
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Written by navin on August 15th, 2008 in In Depth, Pune City No Comments
Tags: community, government, pmc, pune
The Pune Municipal Corporation has a scheme to include citizens suggestions in the budget for the year. Anybody who has an idea for work that can be carried out in their ward/locality can download a form, fill it out and submit it at their ward office / nearest multi-utility citizen kiosk location / citizen facilitation [...]
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Written by navin on August 12th, 2008 in Featured, In Depth, Pune City 3 Comments
Tags: entrepreneurs, pune, startups
This article was written by Anthony Hsiao in an e-mail thread over at Pune OpenCoffee Club’s mailing list, and is reproduced here with permission. Anthony is a co-founder of Pune-startup Entrip. Anthony, Nick and Adil, who were in London when they decided to start Entrip, moved to Pune to actually make it happen, for the [...]
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Written by navin on July 30th, 2008 in News, Pune City 1 Comment
Tags: outsourcing, pune, real estate
The Times of India is reporting that the increasing rentals in Pune could be a significant deterrent in growth of IT in Pune.
Sunil Patil, president (Pune region), UBICS, a software company of the UB group, believes that the rentals may spoil the show. “Rentals in Pune for software companies have gone up 300% in [...]
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Written by navin on May 16th, 2008 in Featured, In Depth, Pune City 4 Comments
Tags: community, government, ideacamp, ideas, News, pmc, pune
In an earlier article, I wrote about how Pune now has a CIO, who is pushing various initiatives to make Pune the city with the best use of technology for governance.
At my request, Dr. Anupam Saraph, the CIO of Pune, has written two articles about this aspect of his work. The first one is a [...]
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Written by navin on May 10th, 2008 in In Depth, Pune City 2 Comments
Tags: barcamp, community, government, ideas, pmc, pune
Pune now has has a CIO - whose job it is to guide all use of information technology related to PMC. This includes external facing services like property tax payments, marriage/birth/death registration, and also internal use of IT like MIS and ERP. Dr. Anupam Saraph, who has been appointed the CIO of PMC, is an [...]
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