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RANGDE.ORG
RangDe.Org is a Internet platform that raises social capital from individuals and deploys it as loan capital to low income households. The motivation for starting Rang De was the belief that the peer to peer lending model could be leveraged to lower the cost of microcredit and and consequently to reach out to under-served communities. RangDe.Org went live on January 26th 2008. Rang de would do this through a network of committed field partners and social investors and offer microcredit that will have a positive impact on business, education, health and environment of the communities they work with. ‘Rang de’ initiative enables individuals to lend small sums of money to borrowers and help create a new form of capital, that is the social capital. Read more >>

Website : http://www.rangde.org

TRAVEL ANOTHER INDIA
Travel Another India is a website which aspires to bring this unique experience to the urban traveller, including those with disabilities. While doing so, they ensure that their hosts, who provide this experience, have a sustainable, alternative income option. With their initiative called Journeys without Barriers, they are also identifying groups of people with disabilities to act as hosts. Travel another India emphasize on ‘Responsible Tourism’, ‘creating the experience’, ‘provide an experience and not just a room’ and ‘journeys without Barriers’ for the Host who could be an individual, community or an eco-resort or for the guest or for the hosts and guests with disabilities. Travel Another India is also a marketing channel for established responsible tourism ventures and they are getting marketing commissions. In addition, they do consulting on issues related to Responsible Tourism. Read more >>

Website : http://www.travelanotherindia.com

MUST SEE INDIA
The Must See India (MSI), launched by Roam Space Travel Solutions Pvt. Ltd., is a free travel planning site providing information, tools and booking for leisure travel planning in India. MSI aims to create a disruptive online platform that will increase the efficiency and quality of the booking process. The site provides a self-help planning tool leading to automatic filtration easing the burden on sales representative leading to reduction in cost. Quality of consultation is high as it learns from experiences of other travellers. Consultation is more effective as more accurate and specific suggestions are made. The entire booking process speeds up reducing the wait time for revert from sales representative leading to higher customer satisfaction. It also helps in increasing repeat customers. Read more >>

Website : http://www.mustseeindia.com

MY GUEST HOUSE ACCOMODATIONS & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
The Property Management System from MyGuestHouse Accommodations is a cutting edge technological development for budget hotels and guest houses across the country. With this system, property owners are able to manage their room inventory to provide a “real time” inventory of rooms thus preventing last minute cancellation, mismatch in communication etc, which are major problems in the budget travel space. Thus, MGH is empowering small business in travel to flourish and expand the budget travel industry as a whole, which will be beneficial to both property owners and the end consumer. Read more >>

Website : http://www.mghworld.net/property_owner.php

PUDUVAI VAANI – COMMUNITY RADIO STATION
Community FM Puduvai Vaani 107.8MHz has been launched by Pondicherry University. It started with an aim to make awareness among the people to improve their nature of lifestyle. Puduvai Vaani is the public broadcaster to awaken, inform, enlighten educate and entertain all sections of people including the programme on women empowerment, communal harmony, health and education. It also brings out the hidden talents of the students in and around University campus. CRS also includes its service on the practical session for the students of School of Media and Communication.The FM reaches a distance of about 12 kilometres radius. Regular transmission is going on air from Jan 1, 2009. Besides the faculty and students of the University, programmes are also presented by the local community people. The language of broadcasting primarily includes Tamil and English. Read more >>

Website : http://www.pondiuni.edu.in

RADIO NAMASKAR
Radio Namaskar, the Community Radio of Orissa (India) is established at Konark by Young India, a civil society organisation formed by some National Youth Awardees, Indira Gandhi NSS Awardees & Ex- NSS volunteers those who are committed to the cause of social transformation and development, to make the common people informative and active participant of the community development process. The objective of this Community Radio is to ensure overcoming social problems through a community owned process and through deployment of oriented personnel and sensitizing the beneficiary mass. Read more >>

Website : http://www.radionamaskar.org

CLOUD TAP
hSenid Mobile’s Cloud TAP Mobile Application Eco-System, enables the successful running of Etisalat AppZone. It helps all of Etisalat’s subscribers, irrespective of phone type(smart, feature or entry level) – to enjoy mobile apps pertaining to various facets of life – News, Sports, Business, Games, Health and much more. These apps can be easily discovered by subscribers via an App Store, again using any mobile phone through Web/Wap, USSD, multi-lingual IVR etc hence enabling the masses to enjoy their own App Store experience. Mobile App Developers are provided with a dedicated Developer Zone on the AppZone.lk site where they could access all relevant resources & tools for content and application developers to effectively reach out to masses without worrying about the underlying Mobile Network protocols, connectivity etc. Read more >>

Website : http://www.appzone.lk

NATIONAL DATA CENTER
The National Data Centre project, executed by the Bangladesh Computer Council, is planned to host the government services to be provided to the citizens so that all those services can be provided at the door-step of the citizens of Bangladesh. The design of the Data Centre allows ease of operation, flexibility, security and robustness of the network. The system is flexible to cater any plug-in as and when required in terms of adding additional network architecture. Network Operations Center (NOC) being build along the data center will provide facility for network and application monitoring to prevent intrusion and hacking. The site will serve information to the people mitigating any / all threats that may arise as a result of Internet based hacking attacks such as Denial of Service (DoS) and Spamming. Read more >>

Website : http://www.bcc.net.bd

APPRAIN CONTENT MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK
Engineering concept where “CMS (Content Management System)” and “Framework” perform together to produce endless varieties of output in a very limited time. This framework has a special tool called “Component”, which once implemented takes little time to deliver at low cost. In this way appRain serves both small-budget customers and large softwarecompany with good quality output and benefits. The solution AppRain can be installed from http://www.apprain.com/manual/ c/46/installation-and-configuration. appRain is the first popular Free and Open Source Web Based software development tool from Bangladesh. Read more >>

Website : http://www.apprain.com

 
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