//ppl2.0 - An E-Governance Constituency Management System
ppl2.0 won the top 20 rank in IBM's The Great Mind Challenge amongst 13,000 teams (Awarded by the IBM Asia President)
What?
ppl2.0, a constituency management system, is a new web based approach empowering citizens to network and communicates with their leaders and with each other on a common social platform on the issues related to their constituency. The software has been designed for Kiosks and for implementation in rural areas. Features such as forums, grievance zones, fund managers, chat with representative, maps, knowledge base, mobile updates, reports, polls, rss feeds have been implemented. India being a country of many languages, ajax based dynamic language translation in vernacular languages proves to be a unique feature of the product.
This project was our entry for IBM's The Great Mind Challenge 2008 which holds the World Record in the Limca Book of Records for the Largest Software Development Competition in the World with 13000 teams and 46000 participants. Our project was awarded the top 20 rank amongst the 13000 participating teams.
Why?
To exercise political liberty, citizens need basic opportunities. Given the enormous legal, political constraints and time lags, securing these opportunities themselves is difficult. The government is also paralyzed at times and is unable to reach out to all of its masses. Aimed at improving this government-citizen relationship, ppl2.0 the people’s social web is here. The purpose is to advocate a transparent, real time and accountable system using the power and ideology of social media, incorporating both citizens and their chosen officials for effective and efficient constituency management.
How?
The choice of tools was guided by the competition rules to use JSPs, Servlets, WASCE as Server and DB2 for Database. We used Servlets and Beans for the backend logic, and JSPs for the frontend. Jasper reports were used to export dynamic reports in 6 formats.
I was involved specifically in the product design, conceptualization, architecture, user interface, integration of apis, dynamic language translation and ensuring cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility. One of the main challenges was to hand code a ajax based chat as well as a hand coded rss generator. The project helped me immensely in developing a usability sense and rigorously tested my hci skills.
//ppl2.0 - An E-Governance Constituency Management System
ppl2.0 won the top 20 rank in IBM's The Great Mind Challenge amongst 13,000 teams (Awarded by the IBM Asia President)
What?
ppl2.0, a constituency management system, is a new web based approach empowering citizens to network and communicates with their leaders and with each other on a common social platform on the issues related to their constituency. The software has been designed for Kiosks and for implementation in rural areas. Features such as forums, grievance zones, fund managers, chat with representative, maps, knowledge base, mobile updates, reports, polls, rss feeds have been implemented. India being a country of many languages, ajax based dynamic language translation in vernacular languages proves to be a unique feature of the product.
This project was our entry for IBM's The Great Mind Challenge 2008 which holds the World Record in the Limca Book of Records for the Largest Software Development Competition in the World with 13000 teams and 46000 participants. Our project was awarded the top 20 rank amongst the 13000 participating teams.
Why?
To exercise political liberty, citizens need basic opportunities. Given the enormous legal, political constraints and time lags, securing these opportunities themselves is difficult. The government is also paralyzed at times and is unable to reach out to all of its masses. Aimed at improving this government-citizen relationship, ppl2.0 the people’s social web is here. The purpose is to advocate a transparent, real time and accountable system using the power and ideology of social media, incorporating both citizens and their chosen officials for effective and efficient constituency management.
How?
The choice of tools was guided by the competition rules to use JSPs, Servlets, WASCE as Server and DB2 for Database. We used Servlets and Beans for the backend logic, and JSPs for the frontend. Jasper reports were used to export dynamic reports in 6 formats.
I was involved specifically in the product design, conceptualization, architecture, user interface, integration of apis, dynamic language translation and ensuring cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility. One of the main challenges was to hand code a ajax based chat as well as a hand coded rss generator. The project helped me immensely in developing a usability sense and rigorously tested my hci skills.
