About Us
Janastu has been providing free and open source (FOSS) solutions and support to small not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations (NPOs/NGOs) since 2002. This includes one-on-one consulting regarding the information management needs of the NPOs/NGOs, building their online and offline knowledge bases, providing support to their projects: designing web-sites, configuring news-filters, helping them migrate to open source solutions, localization and Indian language issues support, geographic information collection, and comprehensive or modular open source software development.
Janastu is active with these initiatives: (Note: these links open a wiki page in a new window)
Technology Governance and Citizenship (TGC)
is a series of discussions about technology and society, with an emphasis on encouraging conversations between programmers, computer scientists, social scientists and practitioners.
Re-narration Web
or Alipi or A11y.in is a set of tools for developing and rendering narratives that assist in accessing Web-content across cultural boundaries. Re-narration Web is therefore also about Web-accessibility for Inclusion of print-impaired.
Pantoto Communities
is a Web-based software for Communities to Manage Community Knowledge. One of its current avatars is developing MyST, a school information management system for teachers.
Principles of Programming (PoP)
uses Javascript to develop a Web-browser based course for the Web 2.0 era.
Indian Digital Heritage at Hampi
is a knowledge base that is to interconnect cultural resources from a number of contributing teams, in order to facilitate a custom Web-presentation of their work.


