One City One App Solution

Brief- Urban Local Bodies need to take up various measures towards effective service delivery for its citizens and envisages engaging with them to get feedback and suggestion to continuously improve overall performance and make their city as a city of choice for people to live in. Every Municipal corporation continuously working towards making the lives of citizens simpler by employing ICT to deliver various Corporation-to-Citizen services in a transparent and efficient manner. Keeping in our mind all these factors Mobilepedia has developed a One City One app which help cities to engage the people of the cities in formularizing its policy initiatives bringing an all-round inclusive growth and help state to develop more citizen centric policies

e-Business Barometer Tool

The objective of the Business Barometer is to assess the pulse of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the formal and informal sectors. The Barometer analyse the business environment these MSMEs operate in. It also analyses their business performance at a sub national level in order to gain insights into critical factors that influence their performance.

The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Business Barometer looks into the  internal and external factors MSMEs operate in

Business Environment Barometer (BEB) Tool

• Business Environment Barometer (BEB) tool collects, organizes, analyzes and reports experiences and perceptions of selected sample of entrepreneurs from the Micro, Small and Medium enterprise (MSME’s) and informal sector/Unorganized sector of a locality
• Barometer reports on a set of predetermined indicators that reflect the state of the business environment at the state/district level
• Data generated is used to project top line trends, create a comparative visualization across different regions, to help policy makers create policy and practices aimed at removing constraints to growth

Outputs of the tool

•  Scoring and weightage will depend on the weightage of the individual score
• Based on the score, condition for doing business is interpreted
• The descriptive data obtained will provide reasons for inefficiencies, areas of improvement and general information.
• The insights gained from the survey on performance and growth potential of MSMEs will assist policymakers as well as other non-governmental and private organizations.
• These insights will help them in designing polices to support MSMEs as well as assessing the impact of policies already implemented.

ICT for green growth

It is a VIRTUAL Knowledge Management and Capacity Building Platform FOR SMART CITY SOLUTIONS

Identification, categorization and manipulation of knowledge resources, used of Knowledge sharing and provide personalized Content for smart city practitioners

Objective:

• Mainstreaming the knowledge exchange activities as an integral part of the learning&capacity building programs across the government agencies and private partners (SPVs)in selected and aspiring Smart Cities in India and connecting them with theircounterparts globally.
•  Establishing institutional framework for systematic knowledge management, sharing and transfer among the participating agencies
• Enable Smart City practitioners to access a range of knowledge documents, technology trends, idea notes and case studies to be able to apply this knowledge in the delivery of their functions, roles and responsibilities
• Replicate Global Smart Cities Good practices in India by setting up a peer exchange network. Korean practitioners (Phase I) and other smart city practitioners across the globe (Phase II)
• Undertake face to face interactions through knowledge exchange study tours, workshops and technical boot camps based upon demand of Indian practitioners.

A Smart Cities Knowledge System Enabling:

• Collaboration (via communities, blogs, forums)
• Finding People (agencies, experts, businesses, academia, civil society) that work with green growth smart cities solutions
•  Finding Cities (Indian, Korean, and in the future others) working with smartcities.
• A Document Library
• Showing Case Studies
• All structured around a methodological hierarchy (knowledge map)

Monitoring water Process- The objective of this application is to improve piped water and sanitation services rural communities through decentralized delivery systemsand to increase thecapacity of the States to respond promptly and effectively to an Eligible Crisis or Emergency.

Why is it Needed?

Engagement-No community involvement in water sanitation projects

Interaction-Lack of clear focus on learning and results in current programs– including understanding what works  and why, in what contexts.

Sustainability-Not sufficiently integrated to ensure sustainable water services

How does it work ?

Collect-The application has a special designed format for entering data on the accessibility, continuity, quality and adequacy of the availability of water and sanitation services by the government for the communities. It also captures any complaints of the citizens. It divides the data into geographical area location of slums, non-slums and cities.

Tracking-The data collected is analysed to draw conclusions based on the current status of services as per the feedback by the citizens alongside taking into account the complaints received on the same.

 Monitoring-Regular and real time feedback assists in monitoring the ongoing quality, adequacy and accessibility of the water and sanitation services.

 Plan Sharing-The analysed data is then used to plan national and state level policies,and planning activities. It leads to helping the national and state level planning for infrastructure programs to be in convergence of water,sanitation and environmental sanitation.

 Quality Control-A web-based survey management module enables survey managers to track the progress of the survey on a real-time basis.