Can India's ONDC KILL Amazon, Flipkart & Zomato? : ONDC Business Case Study https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBBMRBVvVis May 24, 2022
On 8th May 2022, the govt of India launched a pilot phase of something called the Open Network for Digital Commerce(ONDC), which is a freely accessible online system for traders and consumers. and the reason why this is very very important is because the govt intends to breakdown the digital monopolies and Duopolies of Giant tech companies like Amazon, Flipkart, Zomato and other companies!! On one side, while a legend like Nandan Nilkani is associated with it, on the other side, Anand Mahindra himself had all praises for the ONDC initiative, this is expected to be as revolutionary as UPI itself!! So keeping aside all the hype, in this episode today,
Let's try to understand What are the major problems in the market that promoted the govt to launch the Open network for Digital commerce?
How will it promote small sellers and businesses against the giant companies in the market???
and what are the most difficult hurdles that could turn this very same initiative into a flop project??
https://youtu.be/sBBMRBVvVis?t=521 Explaining ONDC
Comment: Instead of an intergrates open Network, can we have a Community Owned and Run Network, which also uses the ONDC for access to other suppliers, but one mainly patronises local stores, producers, services.. where surpluses are ploguhed back into the local economy...
https://www.nic.in/blogs/understanding-low-code-no-code-lcnc-platforms/ Low-code and no-code development platforms are tools for people who either do not know how to code or have no time to code. Whereas these low-code and no-code frameworks are built on actual coding languages like PHP, Python, and Java, end users are not concerned with the specifics. Instead, they are given visual software development environments where they can drag and drop program components, link them, and watch what occurs. In effect, it may be utilized as a familiar wizard-style paradigm to build, test, and even deploy apps that are totally focused on simplicity of use.
The evolution of software has been happening from application to MIS to Productization to Platforms to Ecosystem level due to their open-ness, standardization, scalability etc. needing on-the-fly configurability of Platform to interface & exchange information/data with authorized companion systems to survive & compete. In such a scenario, LCNC platform approach for architecture would have better chance to survive, as it is likely to have more functional resilience, than the one which are highly hard-coded.
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VPN Training. Postpone to Monday 20thJune 11 am. at CED. Lead technical guide: IRFAN.
Earlier circular dated 13th June
You too can use VPN!
A Learning-by-Doing sessiand exami. on to be led by Enthusiast and self-taught IRFAN.. Installing, and analysis of data, surveillance and access issues that come up. We will try both a local vpn and remote VPN
Workshop: on Friday 17th, (now Monday 20th) at 11 am. at CED Mumbai Through till at least 4 pm.. later perhaps.
This is part of effort by CED to energise a coop. labs space for media, information and communication
Fees: Currently, free but we hope to become a content, and soft and hardware hub.
Please however register with John. Some of you have already indicated your interested may reconfirm through reply mode..
Some of the questions we will explore is:
1. What is VPN? Virtual Private Network.. How do I set one up? How I can access content blocked in my geography using a remote (hidden IP).
2. The government is making legislation to regulate VPNs so that they preserve user data for five years.. So will be forced to use non- local servers.
3. Even so can the data exchange be encrypted? what protection is provides.
4. Can we work together on this? Set-up on VPN for our meetings? without having our data on the central zoom or google server? Volunteer group to host/support hybrid meetings using this method, and popularise it in different networks?
Some project ideas, which young coders, techie minded activist can take up:
Build up a local Bulletin Board for local news, information, services (LOCAL can mean a colony, an organisation, a single interest group like organic home garden group, organic farmers-consumers coop.
Perhaps a car polling network..
A truely local meeting in hyrbid mode hosted in local server rather than
A local film appreciation group, using hybrid meeting club. Storage and sharing of Videos,
A Local Exchange and Trading System. - Barter your work for services or goods.