The document proposes creating a citizen reporting platform to improve governance using mobile technology. Citizens would use a simple app to report issues like poor infrastructure, services, or law and order problems via tweets tagged to their location. These reports would be compiled to identify areas that need attention from local leaders or media. The goal is to empower citizens, increase accountability around elections, and solve problems through community participation rather than apathy or bureaucracy. Key aspects include dividing areas by constituencies, training citizens, potential monetization, and using data to drive decisions and debate between political candidates.

1. Start up In the Area
to improve
governance

2. • How tell the story
• Start with typical situation , most of time we
notice things , we wish to report to but don’t
want to that caught in govt. machinery
• Like poor quality of road in some
neighborhood , poor behavior auto wallah ,
rise of goons in our area , poor electricity ,
sewages spraying here and there .

3. • With thought of getting caught up in machinery ,
they give it up ,, we have been hearing be
responsible ,, some one should be doing ,, other
wise things will not work blah blah ,,, in india just
speeches go unnoticed ,,
• People generally question ,, its not only my
problem ,,,everybody uses that road then why
only me ,, everybody should come together ,, in
this everybody thing nobody comes forward ,,
• Poor quality of things and Goons thrive.

4. • There are Practically reason for such attitude :
• Nobody wants to be single out ( fair enough)
• Don’t have time to go through messy process (
fair enough)
• Its reporter job , its govt. job they should do it
with perfection ,, why the fuck I need to tell
them all the time ,, I already have enough to
do in my office ( fair enough)

5. • Then how to solve ,, this problem ,, until now all
attempt failed to have an active community
engagement ,, only few well to do people and
movie star ( bore out of their career) were
actively participating , masses were still at bay ,,
• but with information technology advancement
and arrival of cheaper cellphone ,, we are ready
to witness a new era of community engagement
…

6. • Power of people , combined with RTI and
upcoming election will do the magic for you
,,,
• Each one with its distributed responsibility ,,,
make the community ticks like never before.

7. • Tell about the human settlement in india
• Village, towns , cities and megacities
• Tell about ( legislature , executive and
judiciary) components of government.
• Tell concept of government :
• If not resource constraint ,, if mass delivery
possible , benefit goes to all ( sarvodaya).

8. • Explain the life in a typical village , town , city
and megacity .
• Then start telling about our idea.

9. • Better citizen participation
• Making use of current communication
/information technology
• Making everybody a stake holder
• Easy to Use Interface
• Data Can be used for upcoming general
election

10. IDEA

11. • Make every a citizen reporter/tweeter.
• Where ever you find problem related to
road,electricity,water,sewage&waste
management , transportation , and law &
order .
• Just tweet via simple app .
• News out in 2 taps.

12. • Believe in law of large numbers , if from
certain area large tweet comes this means
problem is there in that area .
• reason can be corruption or bad governance .
• Daily Newspaper reporters , Can then
formally cover that area and get the details
out.
• Metric on performance of area can be used in
upcoming election .

13. • Crying baby gets the milk
• First step to solve a problem is to recognize
one.
• Things works in democracy if citizens actively
participate , medium of participation should
be very easy .

14. Implementation Overview
• Divide metro as per MLA constituency
• MP constituency = SumOf(MLA
constituencies)
• Such division for the reason of accountability.
• Example : take a case of Bangalore

18. Bangalore
• BBMP • BMTC
• BCP • KHB
• BTP • KSPCB(polutnctrlBrd)
• BDA • KFSCA(foodSplyPDA)
• BMRDA • KSFES(fireEmergServi)
• BWSSB
• BESCOM

19. • As per the data we have 10% people in metro
have smartphone , for bangalore ~ 8lakh
smartphone
• So where you find anything wrong with service
quality of road, water , transportation, solid &
liquid waste management , electricity and law &
order ,, just tweet
• With following law of large number if large tweet
comes from an area it means , service quality is
poor reason being corruption or bad governance .

20. • Parallelly tweets go to a web portal , portal is
divided as per constituency with lot of extra
feature ,, focus is to keep GUI simple .
• Via commenting community members can
participate ,, bringing community solidarity.
• Daily New reporter can cover the issue in
detail later
• Additionally Activist can register themselves to
receive compile report on health of the area.

21. • Commercial::
• Analytics can be used to make decision where
to move into a area or not .
• Fellow MLA/MP performances can be
compared .

22. • Govt staff:
• Population : 88 lakh
• Police :: 5,000
• Municipality officer & workers :: 10000
• MLA : 28
• MP : 4
• People with smartphone: 10lakh
• New era of community participation enabled by
smartphone and internet

23. Citizen training Programme
• Prepare a 5 minute video on each of major
public utilities :
• Road, electricity, water , transportation , Law
& order , and Solid & liquid waste
management
• In simple terms, so that even a common man
understands how these are extracted from
nature and delivered to them
• Once you know stuff , you can find the fault.

24. • Name & shame , lets get away with chalta
hain attitude .
• Local media ,plays their roles of highlighting
local villians etc.

25. Data to Support this
platform Can be
reaching

29. Marketing Strategy

30. Most active individuals
• school students ( Secondary & Hr Secondary)
• 3~4 lakh per metro
• College Students
• 4-5 lakh per metro
• IT companies employee , peers and other sources
to reach to them .
• Around 2 lakh in Bangalore
• DataSource:: Department of Education

32. Finance &
Revenue
Generation

33. • Once we have successfully able to build a platform ,
where most people of city will come .
• Ad revenue opportunity
• If successfully able to integrate this tool in people lives
can think of charging Rs. 20 as month of this service .
• Service always keeps you connected to the community
.
• Expected User base 30% household (30 lakh)
• Total household in metro 10 million ( 1 crore)
• 6crore per month income opportunity

34. Future Plan
• Cash on upcoming election :
• Build a platform that felicitate debate across
candidates of constituency
• Most people don’t vote ::
– They don’t know who is guy , how he thinks
– They don’t know issue , by which they should
judging MP’s/MLA’s performance

35. • Debate platform will serve second purpose
• MicroNews platform will help in getting the
issue and performance of previous MP and
social participation of current candidates in
place .

36. MicroNews Pluses
• If successful will acts us most democratic
platform , for community life
• All we need ,, active citizen with smartphone
• Just actively reporting issue with few tap of
button , basically generating leads .
• Later issue covered in detail by newreporter
• Activists unearth the corruption
• We silent weekend protest as part of our culture
• Everywhere is aware of community in general
• New found army of lakhs for community policing .

37. • Every three months or so have , virtual community
town hall ( platforms allows massive participation) ,
thus asking the mla what he has done to resolve the
pressing issue of the constituency.
• Effective tool to motivate our people representative ,
he in turn marshal up his reporting staff ( the
government machinery ) , to up the service quality.
• Platform : will be basis to implement right to recall ,
achieving governance decentralization ,
government/natural resource are spent in the area
where people want rather than misuse of resources.

42. • Bangalore Example:
– Area : 2000 sq.km
– Mp:4 , MLA:28 , Wards:198
– Population: 95,00,000
– Responsible Govt Machinery:
• BBMP ( Overall management , plus road planning and all)
• BDA (land usage planning of interior bangalore)
• BMRDA ( Land usage planning for outer bangalore)
• BESCOM ( electricity)
• BWSSB ( water and Sewage system)
• BTP (bangalore Traffic Police)
• BCP (bangalore city police)
• BMTC ( bangalore bus management/Transportation)

43. • Lets assume accuracy of mobile GPS is , 30m
i.e all point in 30mX30m square will have
same longitude and latitude , lets call it a
node.
• Area under a node = 900 sq.m ~ 10^3 sq.m
• Total number of node in bangalore :
• 2X10^3X10^6 sq.m / 10^3 sq.m ~ 2million nodes

44. • We have static database of 2million nodes ,
• Each node represents a area pint in bangaore
• Static Information maintained per node
• Mla_area name , local area name , mla , mp

45. • For Our Initial analysis , lets assume such
database exist .
• Now tweets from apps will have to first go under
a lookup and thus we find out the node or , look
up can be simplified we just round off the
(lat,long) to our node coordinates , from there on
we need to simple address access. Example ::
• To reduce the stress lets have multiple copies of
static database.

46. • Database is basically 2D array with column
width of each row is variable .
• How to build the static database , we need to
have contour map of the area coming under
the Municipality , then inside it the contour
map of various MLA coming under it .

47. • How big can be parameter of mla ,
• For bangalore : 2000 sq. km
• 2000/28 ~ 66 sq .km
• Maximum perimeter :
• Typical shape of mla area , (4x ,x) rectangle
• 4x^2 = 66 , x = 4km , perimeter = 40km
• Points on 40km , range of each point 30m ~ 1300 points
• we need to manually feed the 1300 points from there on we
can generate rest 66,000 automatically ,
• Now we have 66,000 nodes for mla ,area each carrying same
information , mla area name , mla , mp .
• For each internal point , tagging can be developed over time.