Urban Traffic and Transport

Mapunity has led the development of Urban Transport Information Systems for a number of cities - Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi. These systems use several types of inputs - teledensity data from Airtel's mobile telecom tower network, video company/images from police cameras, location-tracking of buses and taxis - to create real-time knowledge of traffic conditions in cities. These are then made widely available through Airtel's mobile telecom network to city residents, and also accessible online.

Web Publishing Platforms

Mapunity Content Management System (CMS) is a web publishing solution designed to meet the needs of complex, feature-rich and dynamic websites/portals/magazines that cannot be fit into 'templates'.

It has two core components -
1) A powerful admin interface to add, arrange, find and manage content on the site.
2) A flexible API that complements the admin interface and allows rapid building of new features and capabilities.

The Alternative and Cpositive are examples of sites powered by our solution.

Digital Citizenship

Net Citizen is an information platform for citizens to be aware of issues, candidates, manifestoes, etc. pertaining to elections in their constitutency. The platform combines information on various elements of electoral politics - constituency details, candidate affidavits and personal information, party positions and manifestos on key issues, citizen expectations from candidates. The platform can also be integrated with other tolls - opinion polls, discussion forums, news feeds, etc - to present a comprehensive picture of any election. (examples: Bangalore city elections, Karnataka state elections)

National Election Watch (NEW) is a nationwide campaign comprising of more than 1200 NGO and other citizen led organizations working on electoral reforms, improving democracy and governance in India. Mapunity has partnered with Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), the main force behind this campaign, to conceptualize and deliver a web portal that will play a crucial part in realizing NEW's mission.

Women's Issues

Mapunity is partnering with Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore as technology consultants, who are involved in a research project titled "In Her Name: Measuring the Gender Asset Gap. A pilot study to collect sex-disaggregated asset data in Ecuador, Ghana and India". Mapunity will undertake geographical mapping of information collected and other analytical functions that can be applied to the data to get a clear understanding of the findings from this study.

Please watch this space for more information as the portal development continues.

Public Health Informatics

Mapunity is working to put together simple information platforms for promoting public health. The first initiative in this effort is Vaccidate, a free online and mobile-based alerting service that reminds parents and guardians about the vaccination schedules for their children. The recommended vaccination schedule for any given date of birth is used to create alerts on both web and mobile platforms.

In November 2008, Mapunity entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Manipal Hospital, Bangalore to test and deploy several health informatics products and solutions, with Manipal Hospital providing its medical expertise to these products. Mapunity also intends to make its public health information platforms available for use by government programs and initiatives.

National Election Watch - See it in action

National Election Watch (NEW) is a nationwide campaign comprising of more than 1200 NGO and other citizen led organizations working on electoral reforms, improving democracy and governance in India. Mapunity has partnered with Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), the main force behind this campaign, to conceptualize and deliver a web portal that will play a crucial part in realizing NEW's mission.

Law and Order

Mapunity is building a public safety information and emergency management platform for urban areas, based on the same range of technology used in its urban transport information systems. The company has also created a collaborative platform for criminal investigation departments of several states to work together in their efforts to pursue and arrest cross-border criminal elements.

Social Networking - See it in action

Mapunity has developed an on-line GIS platform allows specific communities and groups to create, organise, manage, analyse and share map-linked information. The platform combines (1) maps showing the areas of interest to a community, (2) the spatial data in the form of attributes of the points on the map, and (3) membership levels for those who belong to the community, so that that data sharing follows the function and organisational structure of the user groups.

OpenNGO - See it in action

Mapunity is partnering with Chennai-based Centre for Development Finance and CSO Partners to develop an interactive online community for NGOs and their stakeholders. In addition to providing information about NGOs in India, the technology platform will enable the user community to contribute content, share information and collaborate effectively. Content from the portal will also be extractable using spatial and topic filters, making it useful to a wide range of publishers.

Please watch this space for more information as the portal development continues.

Microfinance and Livelihoods

Mapunity is developing a hosted technology platform for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), known as COINS, that integrate the various technology functions of a small loans program seamlessly. Numerous MFIs who need technology inputs to make their operations more cost-effective (and thereby lower the cost of lending to the poor) face significant obstacles in selecting and adopting the right software. As a hosted platform, COINS will greatly reduce their difficulties, and allow them to concentrate on their core mission while the data management elements are taken care by COINS.

Energy and Electrification

Mapunity has developed a spatial information system, known as Energy Hub, to map/monitor sources of non-conventional energy in remote villages that cannot be economically serviced by conventional grid power. The aim is to build capacity with the officials and other stakeholders for planning and implementing remote village electrification projects using the GIS and Knowledge Management tools, and disseminating such information to stakeholders.

Map Tools

Mapunity is developing a set of tools that will work seamlessly with its social networking platform, and also with the various products that are being developed by the company. These include a composition tool set for annotating, storing and sharing custom maps, analytical functions for interpreting and classifying data, and filtering rules to work on subsets of spatial data. Mapunity is also exploring the extensibility of these tools to mobile applications.