CIO Pune completes three year tenure

On the 22^nd of January 2011 the Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement between the PMC, SEAP and Dr Anupam Saraph to establish the Office of the CIO completes its tenure of 3 years. The office had been established to address the information related challenges of the Pune City and the PMC. Under the PPP Dr Anupam Saraph played the role of the CIO of Pune City.

What key benefits has this resulted in for Pune?

1. The PPP arrangement has resulted in several self-help options for Punekars to address various governance and management issues as well as drive development and transaction processes[i] through innovative Information Systems (see accomplishments list below).
2. The PPP arrangement has also resulted in a dramatic increase in transparent, usable, auditable and more secure access to on-line information and transactions with the PMC.

Pune Public Commission of Inquiry 2010

We all witness small and large violations of common-sense and community needs in the development projects across the city. These are usually also a violation of the city's Development Plan (DP) - a document that is supposed to serve as a blueprint to the way our city develops. The DP itself often fails to understand the character and culture of the city and the way it may shape in 10, 20 or 50 years. It is little wonder that an accumulation of these "small" failures has resulted in less than 20% of the DP being implemented, urban chaos (failure to provide water, electricity or telecom, failure to remove waste, failure to ensure smooth flow of traffic, failure of health and hygiene, failure to prevent or manage disasters) and an inability of the city to grow its economic and social potential.

Discover easier commutes on Pune's buses

Tired of driving to or back from Hinjewadi, Magarpatta or Kharadi everyday? Check out the busses you could take on the upgraded version of Pune Transit the application below or open it in a new window.

You can also find out which bus can take you there on your mobile! Just sms PMT your location to Hinjewadi to 092200 92200*!

In a fraction of a minute you will get a message with the routes.

Get your mobile to find your bus!

Want to go shopping to Mandai on Sunday morning? Tired of parking problems along Laxmi road or Mandai? Try the Public Bus.

Find out which bus can take you there on your mobile! Just sms PMT Aundh to Mandai to 092200 92200*!

In a fraction of a minute you will get the message: Routes [21D, 21ND, 25D, 41D, 60D, 88D, 113D, 113AD, 225D, 298D, 322D, 354D] connect [Aundh] to [Mandai]. D is for down routes, U is for up routes. Some routes have other alphabets which simply are part of the route number itself.

Census 2011 in Pune

Census 2011 is on across the country. Many people have been asking questions about the who is conducting it, must they participate, what do they do if they miss it? Here is an information link that you can look at and find your answers, add your questions or even answer the questions posed by others.

Managing Pune's Public Transport

Late March 2010 we had launched the First Version of Pune Transit. I am happy to announce the new version of the application below or open it in a new window.

You can find the busses passing through the location where you are or look for a direct bus between any two points on a map. Yes, we are working on connecting busses, so you can plan a multi-bus journey too, watch out for that soon.

Mapping the thousands of bus-stops across the city is a mammoth task- the bus drivers and conductors are already helping to map them. Out of the over 375 bus routes across Pune We've mapped a several routes and more than a several hundred bus stops (from over thousands). If you know a bus route, you too can help to locate the bus stops on a route on the map just sign in on the application to volunteer.

You can rate the bus route to help capture the best (and worst) user rated routes and why. Many users have been activly rating their bus routes already!

Soon you will be able to rate and submit issues about your bus-stops too. PMPML, are you listening?

Crowd Sourcing Information Systems for Pune

Background


This is an invitation to all CIO's in Pune- an invitation to create shared Information Systems.

As all you CIO's know, Cloud Computing[1] has radically altered the models to deploy software, platforms and infrastructure across user communities. It has brought shared computing power, massive scalability, elasticity of use, pay-as-you-go and self-service scenarios for users.

Web 2.0[2] has opened the potential to tap the collective knowledge of the entire value chain. This has transformed business models to include the long-tail (or many very small niches of customers)  thus radically altering the economics of providing services or deploying “products”.  It significantly altered the ability to exchange information across silos with open models and API’s that facilitate the rapid development and deployment of consumer value through mashups.