Gram Vaani has recently launched ‘vTrack‘, a security tracking application for working professionals. vTrack aims to improve the security of people traveling in office cabs at odd hours, particularly in the BPO/KPO industry. vTrack makes personalized calls to you to ensure you are safe. There is a password check to ensure it is you, and not [...]
In another recognition of its work, Gram Vaani is one of the winner of the Economic Times Powers of Ideas contest for 2010. This competition awards breakthrough ideas from all over India. This year over 12,000 ideas were nominated, out of which 74 made it to the final winners list. You can find out more [...]
Gram Vaani’s first mobile news service in India started with a bang on July 20th. Together with Jean Dreze’s network of NREGA Sahayata Kendras and the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan in Ranchi, we debuted a news-over-phone service in the areas of Khunti and Lathehar. The system has received over 18,000 calls from some 2000 unique users [...]
Freedom fighter and social activist Anna Hazare was recently in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra to speak about the Jan Lokpal Bill, a civil society-led effort to remove corruption in India. Radio Nagar is a community radio station based in Ahmednagar run by the NGO Snehalaya (http:// www.snehalaya.org). The station staff wanted to air his speech live but [...]
Fast Company, a leading international magazine, has ranked Gram Vaani as the 5th most innovative company in India. The Indian lists include Tata Motors for its Nano car and Godrej for its ChotuKool refrigerator, while the global list includes companies like Twitter, Facebook and Apple. This is another affirmation of the innovation-centric work that Gram Vaani [...]
