askneta.com - Get Answers, Not Promises!!

Yesterday, at BarCampPune I met up with Shardul Mohite the co-founder of WeboniseLab who are working on AskNeta.com (a politician is called a ‘Neta’ in hindi language). Speaking to him on how they were collecting data for AskNeta.com I could instantly connect with their vows of visiting several government websites and scraping content through automated scripts. Many a times the data is available as an MS Excel files which again needs to be downloaded and formated for usage.

Next I shared the vision for OpenCivic with them and he instantly connected with it. Not only did he offer his unconditional support but wanted to use the OpenCivic API. So, as of now AskNet.com would become the first web service to consume data from the OpenCivic API.

We at OpenCivic are really happy that we could get together startups and people who have felt the same ‘itch’. You can follow Shardul on twitter @shardulmohite