Viplav Communications

A first step towards a true democracy is being taken by my seniors from IIT Kanpur who recently started a company called Viplav Communications. Viplav reaches out to the people, listens to them, and communicates their issues to the political representatives of the different constituencies. For the representatives, they let them know what people want them to do, and help them in making future plans for the constituency. Although they are currently looking at this from the latter point of view, that is, acting as a management consultancy for the politicians and political parties, but their long term goal is to help people themselves closely monitor the performance of their elected representatives, and to convey their requirements to the representatives.

This is amazingly similar to President Kalam's vision of the virtual election.