Winjit’s ‘Social Welfare Features’ featured in mid-day

Microsoft’s TechEd – an annual conference for developers and IT professionals was conducted last month where we saw Winjit featured as publisher’s spotlight in Microsoft’s Monthly newsletter. Our App ‘Jeevan Paani’ and ‘Vaccine Monitoring’ are among the eight apps shortlisted at the AppFest at TechEd in Pune held on March 26. These social welfare features of Winjit are featured in Mid Day newspaper, Mumbai on 14^th April 2013.

Click here for the midday article: http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2013/apr/140413-indian-app-developers-social-welfare-features.htm

Via Jeevan Paani, water utilization is done appropriately and it helps citizens to save water. Abhijeet Junagade, the CEo of Winjit shared, “We are reeling under a drought and my app, Jeevan Pani, has been designed to help citizens save water. With this free app, citizens will be able to report wastage of water by taking photographs of the instances and putting them up on a blog. The app is also informational—a user has access to information about the average usage of water in the city per day, for instance. One could then alter one’s usage and calculate how much you save, too. The app runs in Marathi and also gives users credit points for having saved water, which can then be shared on social networking sites”

While Vaccine monitoring will be of great help to NGO’s, local bodies and agencies so as to implement vaccination and drives for a healthier and a better country.

The excerpts from the article are:

“An idea for India
The man and his mission: Thirty-four-year-old Abhijit Junagade is not anxious, but certainly hopeful. His apps, Jeevan Paani and Vaccine Monitoring, too, are among the eight apps shortlisted at the AppFest at TechEd in Pune held on March 26.  The app “We are reeling under a drought and my app, Jeevan Pani, has been designed to help citizens save water,” says Junagade, co-founder of Winjit Technologies, an IT services company in Nasik.

With this free app, he explains, citizens will be able to report wastage of water by taking photographs of the instances and putting them up on a blog. The app is also informational—a user has access to information about the average usage of water in the city per day, for instance. One could then alter one’s usage and calculate how much you save, too. The app runs in Marathi and also gives users credit points for having saved water, which can then be shared on social networking sites,” says Junagade.

The other app, Vaccine Monitoring, will help out NGOs, agencies and local bodies who implement vaccination and immunisation drives across the country. “This app is useful for India and other developing nations, too, because our problems are rather similar. We have generous donors for vaccine programmes across the world, but collection of information on the recipients is rather urorganised even today. The data reaches the concerned authority almost 12 months after the drive. This app will scan the bar code on each vaccine administered which can then be integrated with the online form which has details of the child and his/her GPS location,” says Junagade. The app, he adds, will also help the local bodies record births and deaths in an area and forecast the future need of the vaccines accordingly.

What’s next: Junagade hopes to gather important data through Vaccine Monitoring and publish it so the government and NGOs have access to crucial information. “Also, during drought, the government supplies water tankers to affected areas, but the villagers often have no ideas when the next tanker would reach them. Jeevan Pani can be used to trace routes and update the local body in that village about the location of the tanker so people could plan their water usage accordingly.” Whether shortlisted for the Asian Development Bank presentation or not, Junagade says he will go ahead and design the app anyway.

The challenge: Junagade says his apps will be able to do their bit of social good only if he has access to government data. “This platform is quite powerful and can streamline many systems, but it is up to the government to help open the doors to this revolution.”

In this situation of drought in Maharashtra and lack of vaccination awareness among people, we hope we help by doing a little by these social welfare apps.