Business Description:www.igovernment.in is India's first interactive web platform and info-portal for knowledge sharing by all stakeholders on "Integrated approach towards Good Governance".
The portal aims at filling the existing gap of peer-to-peer learning and capacity building amongst policy makers, judiciary, bureaucrats, academicians, NGOs and the vendor community across India, as well as those in other public services through four basic approaches.
A) Provide information on policies, strategies, best practices, innovations and use of technology in improving governance
B) Provide platform for online discussion and deliberation
C) Provide opportunity for face-to-face interaction and knowledge sharing through seminars and focused workshops
D) Provide consultancy in e-Governance and development project implementation
With over 40,000 registered subscribers for the daily newsletter and an average 3.5 lakh unique visits per month, the website has become a synonym of development journalism in just one year of its inception.
Industry:Media/ Entertainment
Founded in:2007
Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity
Significant Competitors:Closest competitors are magazines like eGov from CSDMS, Good Governance from Global Infomedia and Skoch.
Company Details :
Company Name:Blue Slate Media
HeadQuarters:New Delhi
Stage of the company:Scaling up
No of Employees (2006):Did not exist
No of Employees (2007):6-15
Office Locations(2006):Did not exist
Office Locations(2007):2-5
No of companies promoted:Yes (2)
Profits (2006):Did not exist
Profits (2007):Did not exist
>Partnerships:
Initial Funding:Family & friends
Addl Funding:Angel investors
Institutitional Capital:No
Revneue Model:iGovernment is a unique B-2-B platform that fulfills the information needs of those in the supply side of governance, and also focuses on capacity building as well as consulting in ICT for development space - there is a big market opportunity to be tapped.
Awards & honors:None yet.
Promoters Details :
Promoters Name(s):Shubhendu Parth
Age:39
HomeTown:Patna
Education:Bachelors Patna University
No of companies promoted:Yes (2)
Family Background:First gen entrepreneur
Job:Executive Editor at Cyber Media
Ex-Job Description:Managing publication of Dataquest magazine
Favorite Book/Movie:The Alchemist
