Janastu
Cause Area
- Advocacy & Human Rights
- Community
- Computers & Technology
- Environment
Location
3354 KR RoadBangalore, 560070India IndiaOrganization Information
Mission Statement
To enable the social development sector to pro-actively manage their community-based knowledge.
Description
Janastu has been providing free and open source (FOSS) solutions and support to small not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations (NPOs/NGOs). This includes one-on-one consulting regarding the information management needs of the NPOs/NGOs, building their online and offline knowledge bases, providing support to their projects, designing web-sites, configuring news-filters, helping them migrate to open source solutions, localization and Indian language support issues, geographic information collection, and comprehensive or modular software development.
Janastu has also created and helped to maintain a number of online communities, including the tsunami reconstruction knowledge center, and egovernance, organic farming, craft network, village tourism or IT-and-Society portals.