TD proposes a participatory and collaborative understanding of governance practices based on active citizenship to inform the development of a digital networked platform for public discourse in the context of RTI, NREGA and PDS in rural Karnataka. The Right to Information Act (RTI) ensures the realization of the fundamental human right to information in India. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) provides employment guarantee to secure household livelihoods in rural India. The Public Distribution System (PDS) is a food access mechanism to ensure food security for the alleviation of poverty. The value of the proposed platform for actors in Indian governance is to enable a fair share of challenges for Citizens, Consumers, Regulators, Executive/Bureaucracy, Legislators/Politicians, and Judiciary.

The current vision of the technical intervention is an Internet enabled Wiki with support for mobile phones and multimedia. Mobile phones and multimedia have been arrived at while considering the textually and digitally non-literate factions of the population for whom access to information counts the most and who have also contributed to the increasing adoption of the mobile phone as a tool for communication. Multimedia support enables the attachment of still images, audio and video files to Wiki pages by the mobile phone or a web browser. This could be used by a government official or interested party to store a still image of public works in progress; it could be used by an illiterate Panchayat member to record the receipt of funds by filing a voice report; it could be used by a local journalist to record a public statement made by a government official. The Wiki itself is to be bi-lingual and users will be able to author pages in both English and Kannada.