Haryana Guv launches revised version of political website
New Delhi, Aug 17 (UNI) Haryana Governor A R Kidwai
today launched the revised version of the political networking site
www.indiademoracy.org, for providing quality service to people where each and
every citizen of the country can now network and communicate with each other
regarding any issues relating to India.
The site is created by V-Empower,
Inc. a US-based company with its presence in Hyderabad, India, Speaking on the
occasion, Dr Kidwai said the Internet has become an effective medium for
communication, lowering the costs of such and allowing people to have access to
any information relatively quickly and simply.
He said nowadays people
are relying on the Internet for activities in business, educational and other
sectors. ''This is an Internet Revolution in India and such an effort will take
time to grow but I am glad that the awareness is quite distinct at the moment,''
he added.
The Vice President of V-Empower Inc., Mr Saud Khan (Sam), said
www.indiademocracy.org is V-Empower's effort to bring Indians together and the
site was introduced in 2002. He said since its inception, the IndiaDemocracy
team had continually aimed at enhancing this platform for the common man to
raise issues and concerns and bring it to the attention of our law makers and
keepers and to the concerned citizen.
Dr Kidwani said the IndiaDemocracy
site has directed thousands of e-mails from concerned citizens to their elected
officials.
Mr Khan said the site users are able to post the latest news,
ongoing issues/concerns, articles and blogs to educate and raise awareness among
Indians about political affairs and such happenings.
He said so far
hundreds of articles, news articles and blogs have been posted by users, keeping
other www.indiademocracy.org users informed.
The President and CEO of
NETUTRY, a teaming partner of V-Empower, Inc, Mr Sachin Agrawal said the site
caters to web 2.0 and has similar features like in any social networking
website, such as orkut.com or myspace.com. He said in its current state, the
site has an average of 2000 hits per day and currently has over 40,000
registered members and continuously growing.
He said the value add to the
general mass is that a common citizen can now contact their elected
representative by simply submitting a form on the website. The portal also
allows like minded people to exchange views on current affairs, comment on any
news publication or even launch their own sub website within this portalsuch as
www.yourname.indiademocracy.org.
The following features are available to
any registered user: - Blogs - text/ Audio/ Video Polls - Add News and Analyze
or post feedback on any other - RSS Feeds (Really Simple Sindication) - Network
among the follow members and politicians - Add your articles/ Blogs/news to
other major Social Networking sites - Send press release to all major
newsletters - Create your Google AdSense and add them in your Article/ Blog and
earn money.
- Download elected official database.
- Direct comment
on the articles published in Media to their writer or publisher.
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