Mayorji, Bengaluru’s IT industry can do these for free – want to take them up?

by November 13, 2013 Economy

The Mayor feels IT industry has not done enough for Bengaluru. Sir, here are four things that IT can do for the city quickly.

(a) Digitise the property records in the city, and host them online, so that everyone can see who is paying taxes, who is not, and how much. Likewise, digitise the records of government properties, spatially, and put them up online.

(b) Digitise the records of all public works, including the history of works on each road, and put them up.

(c) Digitise file movement in the BBMP, so that the routine work of the agency becomes easily trace-able.

(d) Put up the agenda of Council meetings two days ahead of each meeting, and ask the public to give their opinion on the subjects being discussed. Likewise, publish the meetings of all ward committee meetings, and send them out electronically to resident associations, ward-wise.

I’m sure there are many more ideas that we can all think up together, Mayorji. I suggested all these things to your leaders when your party was in power, Sir. But they seemed shocked at the idea.

I’m glad you have woken up to the many possibilities of technology, and I look forward to seeing you do any one of these in your remaining term. I’ll find you a minimum of hundred IT volunteers to work on each of these projects.

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Ashwin Mahesh is an urbanist, journalist, technologist and scientist. He is a co-founder of India Together, one of India’s first public affairs journals. He also co-founded the social technology firm, Mapunity in 2006, and the electric vehicles-based transportation company, Lithium, in 2014. He is currently the CEO of his latest initiative, LVBL Accelerator, founded in 2023. He is also a trustee at Oorvani Foundation.
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  1. G. Chandrashekar says:
    November 18, 2013 at 10:21 am

    There are several slums existing in Bangalore for the last 50 years egs. Sriramapura wherein recently our Mayor visited, can these slums be adopted by KHB (Karnataka Housing Board) and make apartments on EMI and make them a comfortable living. Though IT industry has generated good revenue to Govt. but can they create a slum eradication on par with JNNURM funds which is implemented in some states. The standard of slums in some of the locality is worse especially during rainy season. What best IT sector can contribute for this?.

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