Futureshift ConsultingWe are doing whatever we could, in our small little way with pados App. As mentioned in the earlier post that the 916 Nepal Chimekas already on Pados.
We have developed a few posters to spread the word.
All the 916 Nepal Chimekas already on Pados.Download Link – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pados
When we heard of the massive catastrophic earthquake in Nepal and the death and destruction we started charting ways in which we can help in the relief work using technology.
Pados (www.padosapp.com)
Pados is mobile messenger service app and coincidentally named the Hindi word for Neighbourhood.
We started ensuring that we added all the 916 Neighbourhoods or Chimekas as they call in Nepal and that covers 100% of Nepal’s neighbourhoods. For example, this app has already created open group for Residents of Darchula, Darchula District, Nepal, bearing Pincode 10100 all the way up to Hangpang, Taplejung District, Nepal, bearing Pincode 57512.
This app will help the communities to rapidly rebuild themselves as logical online groups in less than 60 seconds and engage with conversations relevant to the members and survivors. The local officials, police and rescuers can also easily join the community where they are involved in and start having discussions that will aid relief and reconstruction work. Tens of Thousands of ground volunteers from India across the world, as well as NDRF are engaged in massive search and rescue operations. With the drawing of the end of rescue efforts, the community forum can be used for reconstruction, rehabilitation and logistics of the aid pouring in from rest of the world.
In fact, the community or teams
can easily create further communities or groups and start conversing in less
than 60 seconds. For example, the NDRF team working in Kesharpur can easily
create a private group called +NDRF_Kesharpur_OperationMAITRI that can involve
their ground teams as well as coordinating officers back in New Delhi or
elsewhere.
Any member can simply sign-up using popular social networking services like Facebook or Google+ or Twitter. With Pados, the user can receive instant
messages from the community even if both of them are not connected with them on social media or phone contacts.
The service will use standard data networks like 2G/3G or Wi-Fi, and does not need to involve expensive SMS charges and messages can crisscross across continents, between mobile phones and tablets that help coordinating specific relief operations.
Pados is available for Android phones and tablets and is downloadable FREE on Google Play Store. It is estimated that Android constituters over 90% of smartphone market in Nepal. – Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pados
We hope that we can make a difference in our own way to the relief and reconstruction efforts.
#BetterBhavishya – Neighborhood Safety with #Pados #Futrlabs
Another poster from the Royal Bengal
This is one of those powerful messages that hits you hard.
This is another posters that designed by one of our users. You can share this to spread the word. Some community founders are paste these in the apartment noticeboards and local notice boards.
You too can!
Here are some of the posters that we have designed. You can share this to spread the word. Some community founders are paste these in the apartment noticeboards and local notice boards.
You too can!
Here are some of the posters that we have designed. You can share this to spread the word. Some community founders are paste these in the apartment noticeboards and local notice boards.
You too can!
Pados is an innovative social networking App and a must-have for neighborhood communities. padosapp
Yes, you heard it right. We are happy to share with you that over 150,000 Indian Neighborurhoods are on Pados Community Network. Just type in your pincode and you can chose the neighbourhood you want to be part of.
Alternatively, you can add create your own community and invite your neighbours. Get Creative.
Pados – Android Apps on Google Play
We are super excited to share that Pados is now available on Android Play Store. Check out.
We are working on something that will bring down the fences between neighbors. We will share with you in a few days.
This image is representative of today’s neighborhood.
Bring down those fences, Become
a caring neighbour.
In our last post, we shared with you on how Pados helps bring back a sense of community to the neighbourhood. This is what we mean by that.
Social networks in a neighbourhood lower crime improve public health and raise social impact.
We are excited to talk to you
today about Pados, the first private social network for the neighbourhood.
We are a relatively new entity that sits at the intersection of
two large and important trends in our industry: social and local. Over the next few posts, we will show you
the actual app and its uses in real neighbourhoods.
First, a little bit about what inspired the idea and why we
think it is such a meaningful opportunity.
Therefore, we all know that social networks have become
ubiquitous and mainstream. They have enormous user bases, over 2 billion users of Internet using Internet
in one way or other. It is clear that we have begun to rely on social networks
for almost all parts of our lives. We rely on Facebook to keep us connected to
friends and family. We rely on Twitter to follow topics and people that
interest us. In addition, we rely on LinkedIn to manage our professional
identities.
It turns out that the neighbourhood is one of the original
social networks. There is a large body of research, led by Harvard
Professor Robert Putnam that shows the tangible benefits of having a social
network in a neighbourhood. What is interesting about Putnam’s quote here is
that it is from the year 2002. Therefore, he is not talking about the online
social networks that have become mainstream today. He is talking about the
real world connections that we have with our neighbours, in our neighbourhoods.
Unfortunately, we seem to have lost touch with the neighbourhood. We
estimate that less than 1 in 10 Indians know their neighbours and less than 28%
know none of their neighbours by name. While there are plenty of online
services that can connect us to people everywhere, there does not seem to be
anything that will connect us to the people right outside our front door. That
is where Pados comes in. We believe we can bring back a sense of community to
the neighbourhood.
We believe we can take the best practices of social networking
and apply them to the real world community of the neighbourhood. It is an
obvious idea and there are tremendous benefits.
So why hasn’t anyone done
this before? Why has not anyone used technology to help us build stronger neighbourhoods?
I I will write a bout in some later
post.
For now, it is just suffice
to know that Pados helps bring back a sense of community to the neighbourhood.
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