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Every Indian City, Town and Village to Get its Own Website

Worldviewer.com has launched roughly 35,000 sites for cities, towns, and villages in India, under www.india.tm and www.Kerala.com.

Local businesses in India - auto-rickshaw owners, barbershops, carpenters, coconut tree climbers, cleaners, contractors, dairy shops, dentists, doctors, grocers, hotels, lawyers, medical specialists, plumbers, recyclers, restaurants, tailors, taxi-for-hire businesses - can now post a free web page through this network of 35,000 local sites. Anyone can go online in Indian villages, towns and cities as part of a network of this network of sites under www.india.tm, unveiled by Worldviewer.com.

Getting a handyman to fix a pipe or a fence, getting somebody to climb a coconut tree and bring down the fruit, or looking for the right school for your children in your city, are all local tasks. They are now just a click away with local sites with business web pages or classified ads. But it’s not only about consumers finding businesses, or vice versa. It’s about localities and communities. You can also create a family tree for your family in your village, or find blood donors in town. Most importantly, the company’s goal is to enable businesses and residents in cities, towns and villages alike, with contact information for day-to-day needs, and local news links, on local sites for all communities.

These sites will become operational on August 15, 2008, ’s Independence Day. Sample sites to visit are www.india.tm www.kerala.com www.indianairports.com http://meloor.kerala.com http://agra.india.tm http://lucknow.india.tm http://kadanadu.kerala.com http://thalore.kerala.com http://amarnath.india.tm.

A national classified ads site at www.AdKnob.in, a yellow pages site at www.MerchantSpan.in, a jobs site at www.IndiasJobs.com, a tourism site at www.IndiasTourism.com, and a hotel and travel site at www.IndiasHotels.com, are also being launched as a part of this system. Destination sites in their own right, these sites will also provide relevant data to the community sites, and vice versa.

An earlier such site in the form of the state portal Kerala.com, created and run by Worldviewer Dot Com India Private Limited, a sister company in Cochin, India, was launched successfully four years ago, and has now reached annual revenues of Rs. 1 crore. This site is presently published in English. The company is already working on a Malayalam version.

Each community portal has local community information, including news and statistics specific to the community or area. These community portals provide locally relevant information in areas such as agriculture, health, education, schools, colleges, local produce, tourism, home-stay, transportation, employment and government announcements.

Visitors can search for their city, town or village. If they do not find it, they can request for a site to be created for it. A new community site can be created in a short time.
Subject-matter-specific sites under the system also provide relevant help. For example, for education, www.IndiasSchools.com, www.Keralaeducation.com, www.KeralaSchools.com, will have separate pages for each school, courses, teachers' training programs, or carry messages from principals, teachers, and current and past students. Information from those sites will also be available through the local community portals.

Over time, local sites can be adopted or licensed by local entrepreneurs or community members to be run as local businesses or communities. These “site stewards” may engage local volunteers or hire local staff to manage the local content.  Worldviewer believes that community-based interest that does not depend on government or big institutional funding is the best way for these sites to grow.  It also believes that these community and subject-specific sites will not only serve local needs but connect them into the larger global worldwide web, and enable local reach globally.

Worldviewer is based in the Silicon Valley, with teams in , and Kolkata and Cochin in .

For more information, contact Tom Vellaringattu, Worldviewer USA at 516-655-4317, or email tomv@worldviewer.com or eworldviewer@gmail.com.
In India – Siby George, Worldviewer Dot Com India Private Limited at 094470 43403 or email sibyvell@gmail.com