CITIZENS INITIATIVE

Networking Proposal for the camp of Moti Chirai, Bachau, Kutch.

  Introduction:

The CITIZENS INITIATIVE (C.I.) was formed within hours of the quake in Gujarat. It is essentially a conglomerate of several nongovernmental, volunteer organisations operating for a common cause, that of relief and rehabilitation of quake victims of Gujarat.  The group has steadily grown in the past twelve days and now has up to fifty different organizations operating under a loose alliance.  Some of them include, GANATAR, CSJ (samajik nyay kendra), BSC Behavioral Science Center, IIMACORE, SRISTI, ANALA and others.  The voluneteer base includes not only students from several institutions, but also a corps of medicos, relief workers, engineers and designers committed to the socio-economic revival of the region.

Activities at BASE CAMP, Moti Chirai, Bhachau:

The camp at Moti Chirai, Bachau, is a vital base-camp established by the CITIZEN’S INITIATIVE, for immediate relief and will also engage in rehabilitation efforts in the area.  The camp has already extended its operations over nine villages in the area including, Moti and Nani Chirai,  Lunvada, Chunwada, Bandhani, Ner, Amarsad, Kadol, Momai, Chobari…etc.   One of the prime areas of concern has been communication between the base camp and Ahmedabad. 

After a comprehensive understanding of the data collected and the tasks that are needed to be done it has been thought best to web-enable the base camp, in order to manage inventories and create a database that is efficient, transparent and workable.

The system envisaged:

1)   WEB ENABLE - Base Camp, Moti Chirai, Bhachau.

2)    CREATION OF A DATABASE and its access / posting from Base Camp and Ahmedabad

3)   The DATABASE WILL BE SEARCHABLE in different formats

4)   Accessing and posting data from other remote sources

5)   Fast and workable MESSAGING SYSTEM

6)   MANAGING RESOURCES AND INVENTORIES to coordinate between demand and supply agencies

To develop a HOLISTIC SCENARIO for the entire region of Kutch, on the basis of a physical map of Kutch which is hyper-linked.

SYSTEM MODEL:

COMMUNICATION: DEMANDS, SUPPLIES, MESSAGES, REPORTS, INFO. (news flash  etc.)

INVENTORY: WHAT IS WHERE?….. WHO WANTS WHAT?

DATABASE: INFORMATION FROM THE FIELD, NET, PEOPLE, OTHER DATABASES ETC….  IN NUMBER, TEXT, DIAGRAM, PIC FORMAT..

 

COMMUNICATION NETWORK BASIC LAYOUT: