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Villages of India project, the village Portal

Villages of India project, the village Portal: www.villagesofindia.org
19th March 2007

 

The domain name registration for the village portal completed and the Home page is up and running.

 

We are planning to upload the proposed site map by end of April 2007.

 

The development effort is going to be open to all those who wants to contribute across the world.

 

The key functionalities are:

 

My Village: Origin-History-Geography-Population-Village Map

 

Projects: School-Water-Road-Community Center-

 

Businesses: Green Pages- for Agri-businesses-Yellow pages-BPO roadmap

 

Community: Member Directory-Who is who

 

Health: Rare Blood groups-Genetic disorders-History of disabilities

 

Special children corner: Directory-Initiatives

 

Finance: Bank-Micro Credit-Rural Stock Exchange

 

Links: Agricultural portal-The School portal-the local weather portal

 

Events: Birthdays-Remembrances-Weddings-News

 

Community Radio program guide:

 

To provide comprehensive program guide on the programs, content creation initiatives

 

Places: Tourist attraction-Places of Worship

 

My Projects- School-College-Others

 

My contributions- Volunteer work-mentoring

 

How this site will look:

 

Phase I: Static data of the list of all the villages in India-2007

 

Phase II: Creating the Database-2007

 

Phase III: Build the functionalities-2007 to 2009

 

Phase IV: Provide sample data for 200 villages- 2008

 

Phase V: Community editing and managing Module for all data- 2009

 

Live with 600,000 villages’ data: December 2010

 

 

If you would like to be part of this project please contact venkatesh_chandru@schoolsforindia.org

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