Pehle India is a non-profit initiative to connect India’s citizens with each other and mobilize public opinion. The organization itself does not propagate an ideology or promote a particular stand other than that of open communication and respect for every individual’s opinion – as long as it does not violate ethical or moral values and the Constitution of India.
The team working on Pehle India is a group of highly experienced IT professionals who have no political interests, alignments or aspirations. As modern day citizens we simply wish to ensure everyone has an opportunity to voice their opinion, communicate with other citizens to understand their opinions and even engage in healthy debates on what is best for our nation.
The logical outcome of our endeavours is a citizen networking platform – a Web 2.0 styled safe meeting place for citizens to search for like-minded individuals within their constituency or across the nation and collaboratively brainstorm on issues that really matter to them. This is also an ideal new-age platform for media professionals, public administrators and aspiring or serving elected officials to better understand the pulse of the common man who is, without a doubt, the most important entity in this country.
A lot of thought and research has gone into the design and engineering of the website. It is subtle and minimalistic in nature. This meets three very important objectives for Pehle India. Firstly, it ensures the site is easily accessible even in distant towns of India where low bandwidth and older monitors are the norm. Secondly, it ensures the site is easy to use even for those who are not very net savvy. Lastly, it ensures the focus remains on the content of the interactions – which we hope will be profound in nature. If you feel there are ways we could improve the site while still meeting our objectives, we’d love to hear from you.
If you’ve decided to try Pehle India and participate in building our nation, visit the Getting Started guide or directly register if you’ve already read that. We’d be proud to have you on-board.
If you’ve decided not to join us, we respect that too. We believe our cause is truly universal, our intent is pure and our approach, simple. If we haven’t moved you enough to consider this worthy of your time and effort, the fault just lies in our articulation.
The initiative itself is brilliant.