Microsoft Corporation’s Indian subsidiary is planning to develop a rural portal to support multiple initiatives, including e-governance, through 50,000 electronic kiosks to be set up across the country in the next three years.
The software giant is roping in smaller IT players with local domain knowledge of each of the state for designing tailor-made applications accessible on its web-based IT platform.
In Andhra Pradesh, Microsoft has partnered with Hyderabad-based Vortex Technologies Limited to deploy the latter’s flagship product, Softrack.net 2.0, which has enhanced features that would allow monitoring of rural issues, grievances and also to monitor funds through various schemes such as MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) funds among other things.
Tarun Malik, head of rural initiatives of Microsoft India, and V V V Satya, founder and CEO of Vortex, disclosed this partnership while launching the Softrack.net 2.0 product here today.
Interestingly, Vortex has showcased the experiences of Lagadapati Rajgopal, a young MP from Coastal Andhra, who has been using the web-based IT solutions provided by Vortex to monitor the issues and grievances of the people besides tracking the progress of various government schemes in his constituency for the past one-and-a-half years.
