Introduction to Janapal World Service Oct 2011

At present JWS is a concept of a neutral governance platform that will help get will help get real outcomes on improving governance and making our elected representatives and govt machinery accountable with a sense of urgency. The creators are not afraid of dreaming big and in their crazy moments think that Janapal could be bigger than Facebook. Please send feedback to any of the three creators by email. If you want a longer version of this concept note please email. Please help us complete the founding team Help us find a Chairperson Help us find a COO

An Insight from an HBR Article Prototypes should command only as much time, effort and investment as are needed to generate useful feedback and evolve an idea. The more finished a prototype seems, the less likely its creators will be to pay attention to and profit from feedback. The goal of prototyping is not to finish it. It is to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the idea and to identify new directions that further prototypes might take. Thank you for your time Contents: Musings that led to Janapal World Service Overview and Core Vision Eight Concepts of Janapal World Service Janapal World Service Roadmap The Three Creators Our ideal Chairperson Our ideal COO

Musings that led to Janapal World service

An e-enabled Platform for Indians (including those who are e-disabled) to Use Aim of Janapal: An innovative never before Plan to use a technology enabled large scale monetizable platform that can be used by communities , public activists, mainstream Media and even public figures, where its use leads to outcomes where elected representatives, persons aspiring for election and public servants compete and collaborate to fix things. An example of who could use the Janapal e-enabled platform can be visualized in the following news report in the Pune edition of the Times of India dated 17 Sept 2011 of a highly evolved process that is taking shape in Pune in terms of governance improvement. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Now-lokpal-groups-for-everyward/articleshow/10012285.cms Context: India needs quantum improvement in governance quickly Good Governance can be achieved by consensus all stakeholders pulling in the same direction The Indian government vending machine takes in taxes and delivers poor services so Naxalites and Team Anna try to shake it to get better services See Monkey fable on page 17 in this handbook which was used in Egypt and Tunisia http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf If youth unemployment rises, a revolution is possible The middle class has started taking an active interest in governance as the recent elections in states and participation in the Anna movement has shown The need for public servants to look good has increased and the fear that if they are corrupt they could be fast tracked to Tihar jail is slowly rising. Heightened fear of Mainstream Media and at the same time the opportunity that it offers elected representatives and public servants. Mainstream Medias hunger for qualitatively superior analyzed information would be a significant opportunity to be leveraged by the Platform being proposed. Citizen Activism led transfers of senior bureaucrats could be a weapon that moves senior bureaucrats to perform For great governance we need to solve the skill and will problem for public servants. While this will be difficult, the current trends suggest that the elephant may indeed dance and that is the leap of faith that is required

All these lead to the opportunity for a technology enabled platform (but one where even the very poor can participate) where elected representatives, persons aspiring for election and public servants compete and collaborate to fix things.

Overview & Core Vision

Janapal is a neutral governance platform that helps produce real outcomes with a sense of urgency. The Janapal platform is designed

To Help
Individuals and groups
1. Resolve important issues with collective the intelligence and replicable solutions 2. Get quick transactional outcomes and fixes for minor problems 3. Unite for larger impact

Public Servants and Institutions

1. Deliver ambitious goals that are executed fast with no corruption 2. Deliver quick outcomes on transactional items and minor problems

Using
Scorecards

Challenges

Replication

Residents

Pro Bono Consulting

The Eight Concepts for Janapal World Service 1. Final responsibility and ultimate authority for Janapal services will always reside with collective will of the local chapters of Janapal

2. The annual Janapal conference will actively seek input from every local chapter and its decisions will be widely communicated back to every local chapter. Local chapters will have autonomy to adapt decisions such that they make sense in their local setting 3. To avoid confusion each element of Janapal will have a Right to Decision 4. At each responsible level we will ensure a Right to Participation with a voting representation in reasonable proportion to the responsibility that each must discharge 5. Throughout our structure, a Right to Appeal will be available so that minority opinions can be carefully heard and that we can be protected against the tyranny of the majority 6. The board, shareholders and employees of Janapal will be responsible and accountable and will be guided by the eight concepts and the decisions of the annual conference. The concepts and guidance of the annual conference have no legal standing. They only have a spiritual base and cannot be used to challenge Janapal in a court of law 7. Janapal will be a public company and its board will take care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle ; that it places none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reaches all important decisions by discussion, vote, and whenever possible, substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that it never performs acts of government; that it remains neutral and encourages fair use; that like the societies it serves it will always remain democratic and secular in thought and action

8. The world and the social context changes all the time. At the time these concepts were written it was thought that they will withstand the test of time. However, nothing about Janapal including these concepts is immutable. They can all be continuously improved.

Janapal World Service Roadmap 1. Work on concept and prototype 2. Find Chairperson and COO 3. Form for profit public company with Rs 1 lac as capital 4. Work on business plan and get Board approval 5. Founders to capitalize at 1 crore 6. Raise x crore at 3x crore valuation from key stakeholders including 10000 + distributors ( 20+ in each of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies) 7. Launch one issue one city prototype 8. Get critical mass in one city - 20% + of population 9. Platform can be used on a non curated basis for n issues, n geographies 10. Raise series A to get critical mass in one country 20% + of population 11. Monetize critical mass a. 20% of India population 24 crores b. For a 1000 crore revenue company you need annual revenue of Rs 42 per user c. Many approaches one approach that is an Oxymoron Honest Broker

The Three Creators

CEO (Chief Executive Officer) - Anita Kapur Bhargava (anita@letsdoitdelhi.org) Anita is an M.Com graduate from JMC and later did a continuing education computer C++ course from Columbia University in New York. She worked as a college teacher and taught Japanese women English. In 1997 she started working on computer data and rose to head the data warehousing function for PayPal, one of the largest data warehouses in the world. She started Lets do it! Delhi! in 2010. Lets do it Delhi! Is a citizens movement that cannot pay money or take money and seeks to inspire everyone and blame no one? 50000 volunteers cleaned 125 locations in Delhi. She won a national CNN IBN award and was appointed an honorary consultant to MCD in June 2011 and is heading a Model Ward Project in Delhi. Seeking outcomes from the Janapal platform is a project she wants to build. CTO (Chief Talent Officer) - Ranjit Jatar (ranjit.jatar@novaedge.in) Ranjit, founder of Business mentoring and Talent management consulting company Nova Edge (www.novaedge.in) is a Chartered Accountant and a merit list alumni of Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi with more than two decades of Corporate experience in varied Industries and in various Functional and General management Roles, apart from entrepreneurial experience. His last assignment before starting a consulting practice was with PepsiCo as Country Manager Sri Lanka, additionally handling a region in South India which in 2007 grew to be the highest share territory for PepsiCo in India. Ranjit works with clients many of whom are Emerging Blue chips to understand their unique business needs and to develop and implement business support strategies. He has a strong desire to participate in game changing ventures for improving public governance.

CPO (Chief Platform Officer) - Sanjay Bhargava (sanjaybhargava@yahoo.com) Sanjay is a gold medallist from IIM Ahmedabad and a mechanical engineer from IIT Mumbai with more than two decades of Corporate and entrepreneurial experience. He was a Reuters digital vision fellow at Stanford University. He has played key roles in scaling three businesses in India, Thailand and USA all of which became market leaders. These were corporate cash management in India, custodial services in Thailand and PayPal in USA. More recently he founded Eko mobile Payment Company in India which received grants from CGAP and Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and has raised Series A funding at a valuation that exceeds 100 crores. Sanjay is a US citizen with a PIO card and returned in 2004 with the aim of giving back to India.

Janapal Ideal Chairperson and COO Ideal Chairperson (Non Executive) Passionate about outcomes for a better India High credibility to play this Role nationally and internationally

Sees this as a Heads I win big, Tails I do not lose much strategy Buys into the bootstrapping approach Can open doors Can represent company to investors and media Has some bandwidth and will add value Team player & not autocratic with ability to see the big picture Thinking out of the box skill set Add value to the Team in closing deals with stakeholders and participants

Ideal COO Has built a successful business in India Has been business head, CEO or COO or shown an intrapreneur streak Entrepreneurial mindset: Risk appetite and wants to be a cofounder Good interpersonal and team building skills Hands on executor, ability to handle multiple functions and scale Good negotiator who thinks win win. Ability to coordinate with Partners who provide services to groups Shares the passion and vision 16x 7 type person when required with high multi-tasking ability Gets things done quickly and a problem solving, bias for action mentality.