Dotnet Requirements for the post of TL/Sr Programmers

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Our requirements for the post of Team Leader/Senior Programmer are as
follows,
1 year of Minimum experience in .NET and a overall experience of
atleast 2 years.
You can send me your updated resume at interview@yonearth.com
I am sending you the brief on Project i-Shakti. To know more about Y
On Earth, please go through our company
website http://www.yonearth.co.in.

ABOUT PROJECT i-SHAKTI:

Project I-Shakti is a very large rural IT development initiative of Hindustan Lever Ltd and Unilever UK. Currently in its first phase of deployment.
Esstentially a network of rural kiosks all over India that provide rich media informational services to the rural community and in the process run business applications across the network (Aplications such as Banner Adverting, Online Research, Enquiry / Lead Generation, and Sales).

More Details about project i-Shakti can be found at the link below:
http://www.hllshakti.com/sbcms/temp1.asp?pid=46802246

A mock up dummy of the current i-shakti system (without back end
technology) can be viewed at:http://www.hllshakti.com/ishakti
Click on ENTER (in telugu) to view the system

i-Shakti has been launched in the state of Andhra Pradesh across 250 villages and is rapidly moving to achieve 1000 villages by Feb 2005 and 3500 in AP & TN by Dec 2005. Over the months it plans to extend itself across other states in rural India.YonEarth Interactive is the key Development Partner to Hindustan Lever Ltd and Unilever UK and has been assigned the responsibility to develop,deploy and manage i-Shakti across India.

In order to meet the requirements of Project i-Shakti, YonEarth Interactive is in need of best of breed professionals in areas of System Design,Software Development, Network design and Administration, Technical Support and Maintenance, both in Bombay and currently for the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Recently as per an MOU signed by HLL with the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, HLL will need to deploy I-Shakti Services across 6000 kiosks in all districts in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

i-Shakti - A technical outline

One of the aspects of the proposed scale up i-Shakti system lies in the way in which the Network will be structured. There will be a Central Server(s). There will be regional servers depending on the connectivity in the village where the kiosk exists. If there are Regional Servers (in districts where Internet Connectivity is poor), these will be connected to the kiosks through a dial-up connection. However if the Internet connectivity is good the kiosks connect directly to the central server over the Internet. Thousands of such kiosks across various villages in different districts will "synchronise" data to the Regional servers in the District head quarters managed by our team.
I-Shakti system with have in it a Multi State, Multi Lingual Content Management System. The Content will be categorized into an architecture comprising of Main Level Categories (about 10). There will be subcategories (unlimited) and under each sub category there will be Articles (Unlimited).The system will allow adding content which may be the same or
different across states and languages.

In addition there will also be Experts on various categories / sub categories of content. (The job of the Experts is to answer queries of the customers in the respective local language). Managing experts across multiple states / languages will be done through an expert management panel through which experts can be assigned a certain set of kiosks which
mean a certain amount of query traffic to the expert that he can manage.
There will also be other core modules like a multi state, Banner management system, which allows banners to be assigned to different content pages of a certain language and be able to calculate impressions and click throughs within the synchronisation process.

All the users on the kiosk are registered users and can only use the system using a user name and password. As the system knows the users profiles to a great extent (which are categories into profiles using a separate algorithm) the system will be able to server customised brand promotions, offers, content, banners and research to the customers.

All the kiosks when used by the customer are not connected to the central server. It collects all data (including registrations and system usage data) keeps it on the hard disk of the kiosk. When the kiosk owner connects the kiosk to the Internet and synchronizes, all the data on the kiosk gets sent to the server (either directly or through the regional server. Any updates on the server including Expert replies etc. are sent to the kiosk during this synchronisation process.

The research management system will allow creating and hosting of various kinds of online research (using a form generator technology) and execute it at the kiosk level (ie collect data and analyze it, perhaps) As a lot of these modules will need to be evolved and improvised over a period of time, all these components have to fit into the design as a plug-in module.
As content will be sourced from multiple partners, standard formats need to be followed in content management. Content would include text content, audio, video, applications like research forms etc. These content will again be of two types - Rich media heavy files (avi's etc) and light stuff. The heavy media will be physically deployed on the hard disks of the kiosks using CDs distributed to the location managers. The content will have to be supported using a language technology that is universal in nature.

The entire project works on an Incentive based model at all levels. Incentives would be given to the customers for system usage and the Kiosk owner/Location/Technical/Regional managers for the kiosk performance. The parameters on which the incentives would be calculated would include aspects such as registrations, page views and other kiosk performance
parameters.All these will be integrated into a web based ERP System which will be used to manage a large team of Location Managers, Technical Managers, Regional Managers and Experts at the ground level to control; their activity including, task management, reporting and performance monitoring.

Thanks and Regards,
Helina