Digitally Empowering Villages
A developing country’s progress is dependent on the growth and advancement of its rural regions. In India, where almost 70% of the population dwells in villages, this dependency blows up further. Merely recognizing this fact isn’t enough. Concentrated efforts have to be made towards the well being and development of the rural community. But India's vastness makes it impossible to physically manage and administer every remote village. Hence, it is essential to maximize the outreach of technology in order to connect and record data from villages all over the country. Keeping this in mind, our web design company in India,
Evon Technologies supported our knowledgeable client in realizing his idea, of a web based platform to empower the rural community, through
PanchayatsofIndia. It is a pilot project to collect and record activities and grievances of villagers from the Panchayats in the Nagaur (Rajasthan) region on a daily basis.
The project focuses on linking rural communities through mobiles, computers and the internet. By supporting the initial technological transition, our client aims to make the rural community technologically independent. The idea is to help each Panchayat of Nagaur set-up its own website. The main website leads you to tertiary sites of the Panchayat of your choice. These specific sites depict the atmosphere of specified Panchayats through audios and videos.
Registering Rural Records
PanchayatsofIndia aims at enhancing the web presence of extremely remote areas. This will provide a communication channel for isolated communities to communicate their grievances to higher levels of administration. It will also help convey schemes and programs offered by NGO’s among the community members. Finally it will help communities in analyzing and recording the problems in their specific area for future reference.
It took a lot of detailed research to bring this concept to realization. Our team had to visit the Nagaur area to find out project feasibility and collect relevant data. We achieved this in association with our client. Our client built a team of 40 volunteers who were supposed to visit each village, meet people and collect relevant data. Our developers ensured proper data collection, by developing a customized mobile application, which would comprehensively record data and videos. This made the entire process paperless.
Due to lack of proper internet connectivity, we had to set up high connectivity hubs in Nagaur for volunteers to submit the collected data. This data was integrated with the Web application setup on the Amazon servers. The amount of data was so huge that we had to develop customized uploader programs to synchronize it to the website. These programs were specifically used at the hub to upload and sync the data.
The web application was created using .Net MVC2 and SQL Server. The development of RFP to Design, Architecture, Development, and Testing of complete application was handled by our company.
The Software Squad
Our squad of 1 Team Lead, 1 Web Architect, 4 Web Developers, 2 UI Designers and 1 Quality Analyst delivered this application in 6 months.
Building Digital Bridges
This platform acts as a bridge between the rural and the urban communities. While the rural get to share their struggle for basic amenities with their splurging urban friends , the educated urban get an opportunity to assist their fellow rural citizens. People from cities provide vital information to improve the living conditions of the rural communities. Details pertaining to education, healthcare, agriculture and development sector which were otherwise impossible to convey to remote areas can be conveyed through audios and videos.
Our custom web design and development company applauds our client’s wonderful initiative and takes pride in being a part of it. We hope that this pilot project is adopted across the country to bridge the gap between rural and urban India.
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