The great India Election 2009 has reached the last lap and here is what you would need to watch it online. Election Commission Site Election commission has setup it’s site which will go live (with real data) on
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Julius Caesar the great Roman emperor divorced his wife Pompeia as he considered his honour and position
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As the title of this piece clarifies, I am writing about public policy. I should make it clear the outset that...
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As the cliché goes, the world’s largest exercise in democracy kicks off yet again this week in our country. Hope, hopelessness and cynicism are the constant emotions accompanying this exercise. The political class appears determined to demonstrate new lows in venality,...
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MapmyIndia’s elections website helps voters take informed decisions Interactive maps, information and analysis about the elections helps users vote in the coming elections New Delhi, April 14, 2009: MapmyIndia has just launched public service website http://elections.mapmyindia.com to help voters in India make an informed choice on issues that matter to them during the forthcoming Lok Sabha...
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Most of the microsites (from companies like Google/Yahoo/MSN) are focused on capturing the news related to election or to provide useful data like dates etc..but none of them are tracking social media conversation. We have created a special page: IndiaElection 2009 to track social media conversation – which are in true essence, a collection of...
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Google has launched it’s Election 2009 microsite (in partnership with HT, Indicus and several others). While the site is quite useful and offers personalization (one can enter city detail and Google provides very useful information on development data/MP information etc), there seems to be a privacy issue here. One can search for anybody’s name (‘Search Voter...
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The Yapping season is in and after BJP and CPI’s Manifesto, comes Congress Manifesto. Few highlights: We will connect all villages to a broadband network in three years time While connectivity across the country has increased
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Here is what CPM’s 2009 election manifesto reads as: Enhancing public funding of indigenous research in science and technology to promote self-reliance; Decentralization in funding for R&D; Fundamental research in the sciences to be accorded priority Promoting free software and other such new
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BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, L K Advani very recently launched his blog and is now going full steam on marketing it as well. What’s interesting to note here is that politicians are getting net savvy and are using the power of social media to reach out to people – apart from generating conversation and debate,...
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