SORIG:

A Service-Oriented Framework

for Rural Information Grid

An Implementation Viewpoint

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Manas Ranjan Patra Rama Krushna Das

Berhampur University National Informatics Centre

India India

Outline

• Rural Information System – Overview

• Layered framework of SORIG

• Implementation issues

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• Implementation issues

• Future scope and continuing work

Indian Context

• More than one Billion population

• About 700 million rural population

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• Developing but a large part is underdeveloped

• Geographically dispersed, diversities in culture, lifestyle, language

• Difficulty in technology adoption due to illiteracy

RURAL INFORMATION SERVICES

• Tele-medicine

• Tele-education

• Disease surveillance

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• Disease surveillance

• Village amenities information services

• Advisory services

• Marketing of Self Help Group

• Weather information services

LAYERED FRAMEWORK OF SORIG

Infrastructure model

Technology model

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Service model

Info. Objects model

Information Objects Model

• Consists of information objects and their

relationships.

• Typically includes databases, web page

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• Typically includes databases, web page

contents and all other forms of information

resources that are part of the rural

information grid.

Service Model

• Model components:

– Information Service Providers,

– Information Service

Info.

Service

Registry

PublishFind

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– Information Service Consumers

– Information Service Registry

Tied together through a Publish-Find-Bind relationship.

Info.

Provide

r Grid

Info.

Seeker

PublishFind

Bind

Contd..

• Serves to provide abstraction from lower

level details so that services can be accessed

only through defined interfaces.

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only through defined interfaces.

• facilitates user-centric view to different

information resources

Technology Model

• consists of different platforms, and technologies that can be adopted to implement various components of the SORIG infrastructure.

• LAMP (Linux, Appache, MySQL, PHP), .NET,

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• LAMP (Linux, Appache, MySQL, PHP), .NET, XML, ORACLE.

• existing applications in ORACLE and .NET. Are being phased out by LAMP technology.

• The objective is to completely adopt “Open Source Development” philosophy.

Infrastructure Model

• includes network connectivity through wired

& wireless networks.

• Built over the existing network infrastructure

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• Built over the existing network infrastructure

of two earlier projects, eGrama and Gramsat

• This reduces the cost of the project and also

maximizes the use of existing infrastructure.

SORIG: Conceptual framework

District level servers

Block level servers

Village level Kiosks

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Service Provisioning Structure

Service Policy

Service Orchestration Component

Service

requests

Request

Repository Policy

DB

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Service

Request

Processing

Policy

Service

Provisioning

Engine

Service

Registry

Service Choreography Component

Billing

Services

Service delivery

Payment DB

IMPLEMENTATION VIEWThe e-Grama Project

– Implemented in 9(1+8) district for providing G2C services

through village IT KIOSKS

– zero cost involved

– village level awareness and motivation is done by volunteers

– low cost computer education programmes given

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– low cost computer education programmes given

GRAMSAT Project

– Data feeding of different Govt. schemes using VSAT network.

– Data storage at a central repository

– Data communication link between Block, District, State and

Union

District level

Server

Switch

RAS RAS

Block level Server

Switch

Block level Server

Switch

Deployment

Architecture

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RAS RASRAS RAS

Village/ GP kiosks Village/ GP kiosks

GramSat Infrastructure

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Services provided over GRAMSAT

• RuralSoft (G2G, G2C)

• PriaSoft (G2G, G2C)

• Rural Household Survey (G2G, G2C)

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• Rural Household Survey (G2G, G2C)

• NREGS (G2G, G2C)

• Bhulekh (G2C)

• Rainfall Monitoring System (G2G, G2C)

TELEREFERAL SERVICES

• To take Tele-healthcare to

the rural and inaccessible

parts of India

• To enable Clinical

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• To enable Clinical

consultation services such

as healthcare, Tele-

consultation, Tele-

Continuing Medical

Education, Tele-follow-

ups, Tele-education etc.

Contd..

• Tele-CME

programme in the

North East states of

India

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• extended to the

doctors of primary

health centers in the

rural areas of the

state of Orissa

Twofold Benefits of Tele-CME

• Doctors in the rural areas can now interact

with specialists located in advanced medical

centers seeking advices to handle typical

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centers seeking advices to handle typical

diseases.

• Specialists come to know about area specific

diseases and epidemics in order to carry out

further research and develop expertise to deal

with such diseases

Phone-Doctor: A Project on Rural Health &

Telemedicine Services

Objectives:

• Facilitate communication among para-

medical workers, doctors and other

health care providers at rural level

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health care providers at rural level

• reduce supply chain between the

pharmaceutical companies and patients

and thus reducing the usage of fake and

spurious medicines.

• Health care knowledge management.

Contd..

• Provide guidance on better health care facilities & information on health related issues:

– Preventing epidemics.

– Counseling on AIDS

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– Counseling on AIDS

– Proper immunization schedule against vaccine preventable diseases.

– Pediatrics and Geriatric care.

– Emergency health services.

– Personal hygiene, environmental health.

– Family Planning.

Architectural Model

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Proposed services

• HEALTHCARE ANSWERING SERVICES

• REFERRAL SERVICES

• DOCTOR ON CALL

• COUCELLING FOR DRUG ADDICTS

• MEDICATION REMINDERS FOR CHRONIC PATIENTS

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• MEDICATION REMINDERS FOR CHRONIC PATIENTS

• APPOINTMENT BOOKINGS

• MONITORING FOR DIABETIC AND ASTHMA PATIENTS

• LOCATING BLOOD DONORS

Contd..

• DISEASE MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE

• FOOD CONTAMINATION ALERTS

• AMBULANCE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES

• CLINICAL TRIALS

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• PROVIDING BASIC HEALTH INFORMATION

• SEX EDUCATION AND A.I.D.S AWARENESS

• ….

• ….

Concluding remarks

• Opportunity to serve the rural population

• Encouraging Public-Private-Participation

• Yet to see the results of Phone-Doctor

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• Yet to see the results of Phone-Doctor

service!

• This is just a humble beginning !!!!!

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